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On 15 April the première viewing of the film about torture and ill-treatment of people by the officers of security forces in Belarus was held in Vilnius Skalvija cinema . Also the discussion with the director, human rights defenders, former political prisoners and relatives of those who faced the violence from the side of law enforcement officials was organized.

Forty one copies of the album “Belarus Press Photo-2011” were confiscated and considered as extremist according to the expert evaluation. The photographers and organizers of the contest “Belarus Press Photo’ were summonsed to the court as “interested parties”.

Welcome to toKino, the festival of Belarusian and Lithuanian No Budget Films to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 28th May – 1st June, 2013. toKino is a festival of no budget films created by authors’ own resources or cinema clubs as well as non-profit and non-institutional projects.

On 15 April Lithuanian film festival “Inconvenient films” together with Belarusian Human Rights House invite to the première viewing of the film about torture and ill-treatment of people by the officers of security forces in Belarus. The screening is followed by discussion with the director and the heroes of the film.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders published an annual report, which draws attention to the new negative trends which hamper the effective work of human rights defenders. The report mentions the situation in Belarus among others.

Belarusian participants of the project “The Electronic Human Rights Education for Lawyers” (EHREL) Alvina Dryha and Alina Shostak (right) were recognized for their work in the field of human rights and won the “Lawyer of 2012” award.

The right to be a human rights defender has been reinforced by the resolution adopted by consensus at the Human Rights Council. The resolution focuses on legislation affecting, restricting and criminalising the work and activities of human rights defenders.

On 17 March 2012 it became known that Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou convicted for terrorist attack in the Minsk metro were executed. Their families received the relevant decisions of the Supreme Court on that day.

Come and celebrate Belarusian Week–a series of events commemorating the Belarusian National Republic’s Independence Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, between 25–30 March–organized by the EHU, the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius, the House of United Belarus, StudAlliance, and the European Belarus campaign.