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Mehman Aliyev, the director of Azerbaijani independent news agency Turan has been given 3 months pretrial detention and is facing charges for illegal entrepreneurship, tax evasion, and abuse of power. HRHF calls for his immediate and unconditional release.

Graduates of a one-year course on international human rights standards had their knowledge and skills thoroughly tested when hundreds of protestors and observers were detained in Belarus this spring.

More than 200 participants from eight countries gathered under the roof of Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv for the first Educational Human Rights Fest in what organisers hope will be an annual event.

Is it a mission or profession to be a human rights defender? Do women have the same rights as men in Georgia and how far should journalists go in protecting their sources? Three young Georgians explore these topics.

Limitations imposed by governments on access to foreign resources for civil society have become a worrisome trend.

Belarusian authorities don’t allow Belsat journalists to cover official events, arrest them; moreover, there have recently been increasingly frequent trials and fines.

Белсатаўцаў не пускаюць на афіцыйныя мерапрыемствы, затрымліваюць, а апошнімі месяцамі – усё часцей выклікаюць у суды і штрафуюць.

On 2 August 2017 the chairman of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry Workers (REP) Henadz Fiadynich and REP chief accountant Ihar Komlik were arrested in Minsk. Henadz Fiadynich is currently under house arrest, and Ihar Komlik is still in custody. On August 10 they were charged.

2 жніўня 2017 г. ў Мінску былі затрыманыя Генадзь Фядыніч, старшыня Беларускага незалежнага прафсаюза работнікаў радыёэлектроннай прамысловасці (РЭП), што на дадзены момант знаходзіцца пад падпіскай аб нявыездзе, ды галоўны бухгалтар РЭП Ігар Комлік, які дагэтуль утрымліваецца пад вартай. 10 жніўня ім былі выстаўленыя абвінавачанні.

Azerbaijan has taken another step in its crackdown on independent media, launching a criminal case against media outlet the Turan Information Agency on charges of tax evasion.

„Solidarity to Afgan Mukhtarli! Freedom to Afgan Mukhtarli!“ representatives of Human Rights House Tbilisi and its member organizations, other human rights defenders, journalists and civil activists were holding banners with these and other slogans during the protest action in front of the Chancellery of the Government of Georgia. Part of them had polyethylene bags over the heads to protest the abduction of the Azerbaijani journalist and to express their solidarity to him.

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) took into consideration the complaint of Vladimir Katsora, one of Homel spring protests activists.