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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.

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

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.

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.

On 3 August 2017, the Belarusian human rights organizations issued a joint statement against the persecution of the leaders of the REP trade union Igor Komlik and Gennadiy Fedynich. The full text of the statement is below.

On 21 July two death verdicts were handed down in relation to 36-year-old Ihar Hershankou and 31-year-old Siamion Berazhnou.

Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions (the Third General Committee) of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution on the situation in Eastern Europe on 8 July in Minsk. The resolution contains criticism of the government of Belarus, Russia and Azerbaijan.

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18 thousand signatures under the petition to abolish death penalty were handed over to President’s Administration by human rights defenders on 6 July. Signatures, collected in the framework of the global Amnesty International campaign, were brought to Administration by a representative of this organisation Aisha Jung.