Adoption of an unprecedented resolution at the UN to end the financial strangulation of human rights NGOs
22/03/2013 - 12:35

Cairo - Saint-Petersburg - Minsk -  Paris - Geneva, March 21, 2013. Today, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council gave a strong response to the increasing trend of curtailing - when not criminalizing - the activities of human rights defenders by limiting their right to access funding, especially when they come from foreign countries.

The Council of Europe: Belarusian Human Rights Defenders Need Support
26/02/2013 - 14:13

Source: humanrightscomment.org

Taxmen came with a warrant to seize property to the BHC office
25/02/2013 - 13:39

On 25 of February, the officers from the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Republic of Belarus came to the office of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee* without any prior notification. The head of the organization Aleh Hulak was handed in an arrest warrant and (or) a warrant to seize property and a notice of the actions to identify the property of the payer.

As a result the property that could be seized on the debts to the budget was not found in the BHC’s office.

CE Human Rights Commissioner supports Belarusian human rights defenders
14/02/2013 - 11:54

Source: HRC "Vyasna"
Human rights commissioner Nils Muižniek (on the photo) has warned member states over the “mixed signals and Realpolitik ” which undermine human rights in Belarus.

Human rights activist, Harry Pahanyayla, tries to seek compensation for putting him illegally to a travel ban list.The trial will be continued on January 21
16/01/2013 - 13:14

In March 2012 chairman of the legal commission of the “BHC”* Harry Pahanyayla, like many other public figures, was unreasonably put restrictions to travel abroad.

Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders stands for Uladzimir Khilmanovich, Viktar Sazonau and Raman Yurhel
11/01/2013 - 13:52

Source: omct.org

URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY

BLR 001 / 0113 / OBS 003
Administrative harassment / Fines
Belarus
January 10, 2013
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Belarus.