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60 independent human rights organisations in the Human Rights House Network call upon Belarusian authorities to stop the prosecution of the human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka, and to investigate the threats made against him and his family.

60 independent human rights organisations in the Human Rights House Network call upon Belarusian authorities to stop the prosecution of the human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka, and to investigate the threats made against him and his family.

On 16 April the documentary film “The Gang”, telling about the disappeared Belarusian politicians and journalists, was screened in Vilnius. The screening was followed by the discussion with the film’s producer and well-known Belarusian human rights defender Ms. Raisa Mikhailovskaya. The presentation was organized by the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House, Freedom House and the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Lithuania.

The pressure on Mikalai Statkevich, the former presidential candidate and political prisoner, has increased significantly in prison, causing concern among human rights defenders and do not surprise the country’s leader.

The team of the Digital Security School DSS375 has updated and added information, directly relevant to Belarus, to the Security in-a-box Guide. Security in-a-box Guide, originally developed by the Tactical Technology Collective and Front Line Defenders, allows one to learn more about the risks and dangers that beset modern man in a complex digital world.

Article 411 of the Criminal Code provides punishment for disobedience to the administration of the penal facilities for prisoners held in the such facilities. Now this article and, consequently, the extension of imprisonment term, have been used against political prisoners. In 2012, Zmitser Dashkevich was convicted under Article 411 of the Criminal Code for one more year of imprisonment a few months before the end of his term, in February 2015 – a few days before his release – so was Mikalai Dziadok.

The film will be in Russian with English subtitles. Discussion with translation in/to English/Belorussian will be moderated by Mr. Vytis Jurkonis, Project Director of Freedom House in Lithuania.

The 28th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council ended on Friday, 27 March 2015. It left civil society with mixed feelings; the Council did not address worrying human rights situations. However, they managed to establish new standards, in particular on the protection of privacy.

On the occasion of Freedom Day on 25 March, the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania hosted discussion “2015 in Belarus – when the geopolitics takes precedence over the values ​​of democracy” during which important issues of the current situation in the country and the Belarusian-European relations were discussed.