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April 17, 2014

Another death sentence passed in Belarus

26-year-old Homel resident Aliaksandr Hrunou has been repeatedly sentenced to death. According to the lawyer, the young man does not believe that he can be pardoned by the President, and therefore he is not sure whether he will apply for clemency.

April 14, 2014

Punitive psychiatry – a form of pressure on Belarusian activists

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.

April 7, 2014

Международная конференция выпускников проекта “Дистанционное обучение адвокатов правам человека”

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.

March 31, 2014

Lithuanian MPs become “godparents” of the Belarusian political prisoners

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.

March 21, 2014

Monitoring elections – is it legal?

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.

March 21, 2014

Screening of a documentary film “Under the Hood”

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