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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today unanimously condemned the Russian Federation for the enforced disappearance of five young men and the extra-judicial killing of another man in different locations the Chechen Republic between October 2002 and April 2004, Russian Justice Initiative said today.

Супольнасць міжнародных праваабарончых арганізацыяў асуджаюць забойства праваабаронцы і адваката Станіслава Маркелава і журналісткі Настассі Бабуравай. У звароце да расейскіх уладаў, праваабаронцы заклікалі да правядзення расследавання забойства і абароны расейскіх праваабаронцаў.

Danuta Przywara, the President of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights sends a letter to Dmitri Medvedev, the president of the Russian Federation condemning the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova

Social workers took away the child Boshko from the Prilep family, because Lodgevi violated one of the established regulations in the contract which they signed before taking the child. The foster family without consultations with the authorities from the Welfare Center, invited the media on his first birthday. Megjashi Embassy reacts to both.

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The murder of Anastasiya Barburova (right) and Stanislav Markelov is part of a brutal trend. Russians who stand up for human rights may pay with their lives.

The Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) sent a letter to the Defense Minister of Republic of Belarus today, expressing its concerns about the conscription of civil and political activits in the Republic of Belarus.

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) and the Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) have requested the Azerbaijani government to immediately withdraw the claim against the human rights defender Leyla Yunus.

15 студзеня Еўрапарламент ухваліў прамежкавую рэзалюцыю па Беларусі. Як адзначаюць еўрадэпутаты, пазітыўныя крокі ў галіне дэмакратызацыі ў Беларусі прысутнічаюць, але іх недастаткова.

On 15 January the EU Parliament adopted a preliminary resolution on Republic of Belarus. MEPs acknowledge positive changes with democracy in the Republic of Belarus, but they are insufficient.

The discovery in August 2008 of a mass grave near Kamenica, believed to hold the bodies of up to 100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, was a reminder that Bosnia remains marked by the legacy of the 1992-95 war.

he numerous cases in the Republic of Belarus where youth activists, previously declared unfit for military service, are nevertheless conscripted in retaliation for their civic or political activism causes concern.