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Now three years since the Russian annexation of Crimea, Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) again raised concerns about the human rights situation on the peninsula at the United Nations Human Rights Council.

On 17 March 32-year-old Aliaksei Mikhalenya was sentenced to death.

17 сакавіка на смяротнае пакаранне быў асуджаны 32-гадовы Аляксей Міхаленя.

Human Rights Houses Foundation wrote to the Central District Court in Belarus to appeal to the Court to drop charges against prominent human rights lawyer Leonid Sudalenka, which relate to his participating in and monitoring and reporting on recent peaceful protests. The Court heard his case on 17 March, and delivered a warning to him and charged him fees.

We invite to celebrate Freedom Day together in Vilnius on 25 Match (Saturday).

Улады Беларусі арыштавалі больш за 100 чалавек у сувязі з мірнымі пратэстамі ў некалькіх гарадах, якія былі справакаваныя ўвядзеннем падатку для беспрацоўных беларусаў.

HRHT and its member organisations ask the government of Georgia to support the Resolution on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 34th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The authorities in Belarus have arrested more than 100 people in connection with peaceful protests in several cities, following an outcry against a law imposing a tax on unemployed Belarusians.

“There is a shrinking space for the debate about human rights and fundamental freedoms in Serbian society. Also, there is less and less public scrutiny of the Government that has a negative effect on the human rights situation in Serbia.”

Запрашаем разам адсвяткаваць Дзень Волі 25 сакавіка ў Вільні.

It is time for States to act on Azerbaijan at the UN Human Rights Council, to stop the continued pressure on civil society and waves of attacks and arrests against human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, young activists, and anyone critical of the government.

Some 50 member and partner NGOs of Human Rights Houses have written to the Azerbaijani President and authorities to call for the immediate and unconditional release of photojournalist, blogger and human rights defender Mehman Huseynov.