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Representatives of the leading Belarusian human rights organizations met with the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Belarus Miklos Haraszti (right).

On 23 January Minsk hosted a presentation of the research project “The effectiveness of the use of international human rights mechanisms in Belarus.”

Graduates and experts of Human Rights House Network Program “International Law in Advocacy” are monitoring the situation with the arrest of Azerbaijani lawyer and human rights defender Intigam Aliyev. The colleagues of Intigam Aliyev from the Program are preparing to monitor the judicial process and the conference, which aims to develop ways to prevent and resolve situations where lawyers are under pressure.

In Minsk, civic activists were convicted for expressing solidarity with Ukraine – placing flowers and lighting candles near the monument to Taras Shevchenko. Participants of the solidarity action were fined and arrested for 5 to 15 days.

On 15 January a guidebook of the socio-political landscape of Belarus with stories about the Belarusians, who were directly related to the modern Belarusian history over the last 15-20 years, was presented in Vilnius. The presentation of “Contemporary History in Faces”, the book by a famous Belarusian journalist Aliaksandr Tamkovich (right) was held in the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House and gathered together several dozen of persons concerned – journalists, diplomats, human rights defenders, civil society activists.

On 13 January the court turned down the complaint about the decision of the District Department of Internal Affairs on her expulsion from Belarus, lodged earlier by human rights defender Elena Tonkacheva (right).

The Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House has the honor to invite you to the presentation of the book of the Belarusian journalist Aliaksandr Tamkovich “Contemporary History in Faces”. The book tells the stories of 70 the most outstanding people known in Belarus and beyond who over the past 15-20 years have been directly involved into the recent Belarusian history. The presentation will be held on 14 January at 15:00, in the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House (Vilnius,Latako g. 3).

The mother of the executed Aliaksandr Hrunou, petitions the President, both Houses of Parliament, the Supreme Court and the Government asking the officials to propose the Constitutional Court to amend the Criminal Executive Code, which prohibits returning the body of the executed person and disclosing the places of their burial.

Homel activist Yury Rubtsou (right), who was convicted of insulting the judge, will serve his sentence in open-type correctional facility No. 7 in the village of Kuplin, Pruzhany district. Previously, co-chair of the organizing committee of the party Belarusian Christian Democracy Pavel Seviarynets served his sentence at the same place. Rubtsou was charged with a crime under Article 391 of the Penal Code – insult of a judge.