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“Chernobyl Way” rally in memory of the victims of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster of 1986 took place in Minsk on 26 April. Despite the fact that the action was authorized by the city authorities, it ended with detentions and arrests.

The organization Human Rights Embassy launched a project called “Stop torture in Moldova “. Within the framework of the project lawyers participating in distance human rights learning program work with the issues of impunity; timely, effective and complete investigation of cases of torture and ill-treatment, inhuman conditions of detention, and other related human rights violations, which are relevant for Moldova.

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.