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HRHN welcomes the release of Initgam Aliyev on 28 March 2016, following the Azerbaijan supreme court’s decision to convert his seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence to a five-year suspended term.

HRHN welcomes the adoption of two resolutions at the United Nations Human Rights Council, and commends the majority of the Council for resisting significant hostile amendments seeking to weaken or even hijack these resolutions. These resolutions and the protections they confer are important for civil society, as is understanding the process in which they were challenged, amended, and finally adopted at the Council by a vote on 24 March 2016.

Human Rights House Network raises serious concerns over the human rights situation in Crimea, addressing human rights abuses linked to Russia’s occupation, and policies adopted by Ukraine that have exacerbated the situation. It was delivered on 22 March 2016, under item 10 at the 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Human Rights House Network delivered a statement, endorsed by members of the Human Rights House Tbilisi, during the UPR Report Consideration of Georgia.

Anar Mammadli and Rasul Jafarov will be released from prison along with other activists and journalists in Azerbaijan.

On 25 March, 2016 in Vilnius all Belarusians will come together to celebrate Freedom Day. This memorable date will be marked by a number of different events.

25 сакавіка 2016 года ў Вільні ўсе беларусы збяруцца разам, каб адсвяткаваць Дзень Волі. Гэта памятная дата будзе адзначана шэрагам разнастайных мерапрыемстваў.

Aliaksei Khmialeuski reports that he is experiencing unbearable pressure in the colony, which began after the death sentence of his own brother. In mid-February the Minsk district court issued the death sentence against 31-year old Siarhei Khmialeuski for double or more homicide. This is the second death sentence in 2016.

Аляксей Хмялеўскі паведамляе, што зведвае невыносны прэсінг у папраўчай калоніі, які распачаўся пасля вынясення смяротнага прысуду яго роднаму брату. У сярэдзіне лютага Мінскі абласны суд вынес смяротны прысуд 31-гадоваму жыхару пасёлка Мачулішчы Мінскага раёна Сяргею Хмялеўская за жорсткае забойства двух і больш асобаў. Гэта другі смяротны прысуд, вынесены ў Беларусі з пачатку 2016 года.

318 Polish non-governmental organizations have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister Beata Szydło, urging her to take action in response to verbal abuse and violent physical attacks on NGOs and activists, which recently took place in Warsaw.

On 9 March 2016, HRHN delivered a statement on the right to peaceful protest, at the 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council, in response to the joint report on peaceful assembly by Special Rapporteurs Maina Kiai and Christof Heyns.

On International Women’s Day, HRHN celebrates the achievements of women human rights defenders, and reflects on the heightened risks women face in defending human rights.