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Within three days, from 5 to 7 July, the UN, OSCE and the European Parliament adopted three resolutions condemning human rights violations in Belarus.

Activist Andrei Mouchan, who was brutally beaten by police, was fined by the court for walking down the street with a white-red-white Belarusian flag.

The United Nations Human Rights Council decided to establish a new special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Republic of Belarus.

Graduates of the project “Bring International Standards Home. De facto implementation of international obligations of the Republic of Belarus in the field of civil rights and freedoms” developed and published materials on advocacy issues as well as problems with protecting the rights of those criminally and administratively prosecuted in Belarus.

The United Nations Human Rights Council began its debate on the human rights situation in Belarus on Wednesday 27 June 2012. Follow live on Wednesday and Thursday.

On 21 June journalist Andrzej Poczobut (right) was arrested in his apartment in Hrodna. The criminal case under the article “libel against the President of the Republic of Belarus” is initiated against him on the grounds of his several publications on Belarusian news web-sites.

William T. Robinson III, Head of the American Bar Association, in letters addressed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay and the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, expressed concern about violations of international law in Belarus relating to the independence of the legal profession.

Head of the Belarusian Human Rights Centre “Viasna” and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights, Ales Bialiatski, faces ill-treatment in detention.

On 12 June, the Human Rights House Foundation organised a conference on the human rights situation in the Republic of Belarus. The conference exposed the systemic nature of human rights violations by the Belarusian Government.