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Journalist Pavel Sharamet was killed in a car bomb attack in Kyiv on 20 July 2016. His murder drew public attention to the fact that journalists work in a very difficult situation.

Members of Human Rights House Yerevan report that police have detained up to 80 people in Armenia since the protests began. There are also allegations that police did not provide information on some of these persons’ whereabouts for many hours, did not grant them timely access to legal representation, and have used disproportionate force against protestors. These detentions come amid mass protests in Yerevan, sparked by the armed occupation of a police station in the city’s Erebuni district.

Journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in a car bomb attack in Kyiv on 20 July 2016. His murder follows recent attacks on journalists and a climate in which journalists and media are discredited and in some cases vilified for their work.

Зварот ад імя “Праваабаронцаў за свабодныя выбары” адзін з каардынатараў кампаніі даслаў старшыні ЦВК Лідзіі Ярмошынай 6 ліпеня. Гэты антыдыскрымінацыйны крок асабліва важны, паколькі суб’екты выбарчага працэсу актыўна карыстаюцца беларускай мовай, лічыць аўтар звароту Валянцін Стэфановіч.

An appeal on behalf of the “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” was sent by one of the campaign coordinators to the Central Election Commission’s chairwoman Lidziya Yarmoshyna on 6 July. This anti-discrimination step is particularly important, because the subjects of the electoral process are actively using the Belarusian language, thinks Valiantsin Stefanovich, the author of the appeal.

Today, on 20 July, the car driven by the famous Belarusian journalist Pavel Sharamet was blown up in Kiev. The Belarusian HRH deeply mourns the death of Pavel Sharamet and expresses condolences to his family.

The “Bring International Standards Home” (BISH) project celebrated its 10th anniversary with the start of the new academic training cycle for Belarusian human rights defenders in Belarus, from June 3–10 at the Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv. BISH is a project within Human Rights House Foundation’s International Law in Advocacy (ILIA) program.

Сёння, 20 чэрвеня, аўтамабіль, у якім ехаў вядомы беларускі журналіст Павел Шарамет, быў падарваны ў Кіеве. Беларускі ДПЧ глыбока смуткуе з прычыны гібелі Паўла Шарамета і выказвае спачуванні блізкім.

Human Rights House Tbilisi presented the report of the two-year project in the Courtyard Marriot Hotel. The project “Human Rights to the Regions” was implemented with financial support of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in three countries of the South Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Members of Human Rights House Yerevan have issued a joint statement condemning police activities against peaceful citizens, and calling on the police and security services, as well as other stakeholders, to act to ensure the rights and freedoms of citizens are respected and protected.

Civil society was at the centre of a dialogue on the 12th of July as the third segment of the day’s programme at the UNGA’s high-level thematic debate “UN@70: Human Rights at the centre of the global agenda”.

On 7 July the Amnesty International human rights organization presented the report titled “It’s enough for people to feel it exists: Civil society, secrecy and surveillance in Belarus”. According to the report, the Belarusian authorities are using phone networks run by some of the world’s biggest telecoms companies to stifle free speech and dissent. Austrian, Turkish and other telecommunications companies help them to conduct illegal surveillance.