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Secretariat of the International Human Rights House Network – Human Rights House Foundation announces a call for Belarusian lawyers and advocates to participate in a study group on international human rights within the framework of “International law to protect the public interest” program.

On 18 September activists who organised a pre-election picket in Minsk, along with the journalists who covered it, were violently detained.

29-30 сентября 2012 года в Москве состоится региональная конференция «Свобода слова и ассоциаций: От теории к практике» для адвокатов, правозащитников и экспертов из Азербайджана, Беларуси, Молдовы, Украины, России.

The “Election Observation: Theory and Practice” project, which is jointly implemented by Belarus Watch, European Humanities University and the Belarusian Human Rights House, invites you to take part in observation of the parliamentary elections which will be held on 23 September 2012 in Belarus.

The “Election Observation: Theory and Practice” project, which is is jointly implemented by Belarus Watch, European Humanities University and the Belarusian Human Rights House, invites you to take part in the observation of the parliamentary elections which will be held on 23 September 2012 in Belarus.

Election boycott campaign in Belarus is becoming more and more complicated. Activists calling for boycott are detained, fined and imprisoned, while candidates’ speeches are censored or not broadcast on TV.

The expert group of the Belarusian Association of Journalists found out that the Belarusian media do not pay much attention to the topic of parliamentary elections. However, the representatives of BAJ are not welcome in the Supervisory Board on monitoring of compliance with the order and rules of election campaigning in the media.

The first week of the election campaign in Belarus was marked by a coordinated attack on pro-opposition groups in social networks by the KGB.

On 22 August OSCE/ODIHR observation mission, which will work in Belarus during the parliamentary election campaign, was opened in Minsk. Observers have promised that their work will be transparent and open, but the representatives of the Belarusian CEC are already being pessimistic and critical of the observers.