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Political prisoner Eduard Lobau has been released from Ivatsevichy penal colony No. 22 at about 8 a.m on 18 December. He was met by his family, journalists and supporters with the words “Long Live Belarus!”.

On the eve of Human Rights Day – on 9 December, Vilnius hosted a discussion with Belarusian and Lithuanian human rights defenders, civic activists and relatives of political prisoners, as well as an opening of photo exhibition dedicated to the death penalty in Belarus.

UN Human Rights Committee on condemned the violation of Belarus’s international legal obligations through the execution of Aliaksandr Hrunou whose case was considered by the HRC at the time. HRC requested Belarusian authorities to suspend the execution of the sentence until the consideration of the case, but the sentence was carried out, and now the case will be considered, despite the fact that the applicant had already been shot.

Belarusian Human Rights House together with Freedom House invites you to the discussion “Spotlight on the Human Rights in Belarus: Challenges and Expectations before 2015” and the opening of the exhibition “Capital Punishment”. The event organized on the occasion of the International Human
Rights Day will take place on 9 December at 14:00 at the European Information Office of the Seimas (Seimas Building 3, Gedimino av. 53). The language of the event will be Russian and English with the translation to Lithuanian.

On 24 October 2014 the UN Human Rights Committee took a historic decision on the case of of Ales Bialiatski, President of Human Rights Centre “Viasna” and FIDH Vice President, officially recognizing that the Republic of Belarus violated his right to liberty and security, the right to justice and a fair trial ad the freedom of association of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

United Nations Human Rights Committee found that Belarus violated the right to life of Vasil Yuzepchuk, who was shot in 2010. The case of Aliaksandr Hrunou, another citizen of Belarus, who was executed, is still pending before the UN Human Rights Committee, while human rights defenders appealed to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

The Homel resident Aliaksandr Hrunou, who had been sentenced to death, was executed by shooting. It was learned on 4 November from his mother Volha Hrunova. Human rights defenders protest against this form of punishment and are concerned about another convict, who awaits for the execution.

Belarusian and international human rights organizations have launched a campaign in support of the well-known Belarusian human rights defender Elena Tonkacheva (right), chairman of the Legal Transformation Center Lawtrend, who was deprived of her residence permit in Belarus and ordered to leave the country for 3 years.

In the framework of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, representatives of the official Minsk oppose cooperation with the Special Rapporteur Miklós Haraszti, question the lawfulness of the actions of the Belarusian human rights defenders.