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Punitive psychiatry is increasingly used in Belarus to stop dissent. On March 27, Andrei Kasheuski, a resident of Zhodzina, was released from the National Centre for Mental Health in Minsk, after spending there a month over a yellow-blue ribbon he brought from the Ukrainian Maidan.

Сеть домов прав человека и партнеры из стран-участниц проекта «Международное право для защиты общественных интересов. Дистанционное обучение адвокатов правам человека» объявляют конкурс на участие в международной конференции проекта, которая состоится в Вильнюсе (Литва) 2-3 июня 2014 года.

On 25 March during the celebration of Freedom Day in Vilnius the initiative to appoint Lithuanian MPs as patrons of each of the ten Belarusian political prisoners was announced. This will provide a more personalized monitoring of health status and conditions of detention of each of those, who have been imprisoned for political reasons.

Participants of the project “Election Observation: Theory and Practice” were detained before the elections had started and the materials prepared for the observers were commented on by CEC secretary Mikalai Lazavik on the main TV channel of the country.

In Belarus, some people battle for social justice and human rights, while others struggle just in order to survive. “Under the Hood” takes us on a journey to a country where the KGB is still in power and public gatherings are considered a crime. Filmed in secrecy, this is Belarus from the inside

In March 2013, the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on the protection of human rights defenders. It establishes principles and standards for States to create an enabling environment for human rights defenders. One year after its adoption, the Human Rights House Network calls upon States to implement this resolution.

In many parts of the Balkans, Caucasus and Eastern Europe human rights defenders face threats and violence, slander and intimidations, and are the targets of new laws restricting their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly, and simply to work to defend human rights.

Project “Bring International Standards Home. De facto implementation of international obligations of the Republic of Belarus in the field of civil rights and freedoms” (BISH) gave participants the opportunity to get information about the work of the bodies and structures of the United Nations from the Belarusian and international experts.

On 3 March representatives of the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian HRH participated in the protest against the intervention of the Russian army in the territory of Ukraine. On 5 March representatives of the Belarusian HRH handed an appeal to the representatives of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Lithuania. The appeal on behalf of the Belarusian HRH calls to avoid further escalation of the conflict.