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Human Rights House Foundation has joined 24 organisations in expressing concern over statements on the suspension of Azerbaijan from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), made by the head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Suma Chakrabarti.

Representatives of the campaign “Human rights defenders against the death penalty in Belarus” reported that the resident of Gomel Siarhei Vostrykau has been executed. His mother received a notification with this information from the Gomel Regional Court. This is the first death penalty in Belarus in 2017.

Прадстаўнікам кампаніі “Праваабаронцы супраць смяротнага пакарання ў Беларусі” стала вядома аб прывядзенні ў выкананне смяротнага прысуду ў дачыненні да жыхара Гомеля Сяргея Вострыкава. Ягоная маці атрымала адпаведнае паведамленне з Гомельскага абласнога суда. Гэта першы пакараны ў рэспубліцы ў 2017 годзе.

Attempts at raising human rights issues were voted down at the official dialogue between the European Parliament (EP) and Azerbaijani parliamentarians – at their second meeting after years of strained relations.

Independent media outlet Meydan TV and journalist Anton Naumlyuk won the Fritt Ord Foundation’s Free Media Awards for their contribution to independent information and efforts to shed light on human rights violations in Azerbaijan and Crimea.

On World Press Freedom Day, 32 human rights organisations, including Human Rights House Foundation, issue a joint statement calling on the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Mehman Huseynov.

After threats by Russian special forces, Olga Skrypnyk had to flee from Crimea to mainland Ukraine. Rebuilding her life in Kyiv she is even more focused on human rights, but the annexation of Crimea has changed the direction of her work.

Tatsiana Reviaka, President of the Belarusian Human Rights House, has been fined 460 roubles (EUR 230), the average monthly salary in Belarus, on charges of “disorderly conduct” and “disobedience to the lawful order of the police.”

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) recently convened a thematic meeting focused solely on human rights – for the first time. This first attempt needs to herald a new era for human rights dialogue at the UN’s top body, in which civil society must push for and be granted a role as a partner.

In a letter addressed to members of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, 56 NGOs including HRHF called for the launch of an external, independent, and impartial investigation into allegations of corruption and other violations of the parliamentary assembly code of conduct in connection with its work on Azerbaijan

Lack of Independence of Judicial Officials and Prosecution of Human Rights Defenders in Member States of the Council of Europe