The Kharkiv City Council has revoked the accreditation for journalist from “Komersant – Ukraina” Maria Spalek. The reason given is that the journalist “has been persistently misinforming people in Ukraine about the reform of housing and communal services in Kharkiv”.

According to figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Belarus and Moldova also top the list of European countries with the largest number of “live commodities” for heavy agricultural labour, prostitution and begging.

With property rights weakly protected in Ukraine, there are all too many conflicts between the authorities and individuals, civic organizations, creative unions, etc. These can be won, but perseverance is needed

With property rights weakly protected in Ukraine, there are all too many conflicts between the authorities and individuals, civic organizations, creative unions, etc. These can be won, but perseverance is needed

More detail on this outrageous law attempting to stifle one of the last possibilities for Belarusians to exercise their right to freedom of expression

From a speech by Ruslan Belsky, lawyer and legal expert for the project “Combating human rights abuse during pre-trial detention", in which he highlights the areas where Ukrainian laws and constitutional norms are ignored or twisted resulting in violations of fundamental human rights and liberties

From a speech by Ruslan Belsky, lawyer and legal expert for the project “Combating human rights abuse during pre-trial detention", in which he highlights the areas where Ukrainian laws and constitutional norms are ignored or twisted resulting in violations of fundamental human rights and liberties

Those responsible for the shameful deportation of eleven Uzbek asylum seekers from Ukraine remain unpunished, while in Uzbekistan the repression continues

Those responsible for the shameful deportation of eleven Uzbek asylum seekers from Ukraine remain unpunished, while in Uzbekistan the repression continues

The prosecutor has presented the list of expressions allegedly used by Zelenyak, though has not seemingly heeded the other criticisms of the Judge in November – that the prosecution has not specified the aims and motives of the “offence”, nor proven its public nature. However the plan seems to be to get a new judge …

The Belarusian authorities want to force Internet cafes to collude with them in spying on their citizens. Help break down such senseless tyranny by swamping Big Brother. Publish information about Belarusian political repression on every website and forum you can!

International organizations monitoring press freedom have called on the Uzbek authorities to release independent journalist and human rights researcher who has been arrested and charged with “illegal border crossing” and “smuggling of subversive literature”

The CVU believes that the new law considerably strengthens the influence of the party leadership on tens of thousands of deputies of local councils and effectively makes them dependent on the will of several individuals.

A call to civic society to institute a Civic – “Shadow “ - Human Rights Ombudsperson. This person could be supported by representatives in every Ukrainian region, each of whom would liaise with civic and human rights organizations in their region.

This number was 127 down on the figure for the previous year, making the mortality rate in penal institutions 4.6 per thousand inmates

Latest encroachment on freedom in Belarus: those using Internet cafes will have the sites they visited recorded, with this information available on demand by the security and enforcement agencies

Since the immanent function of the State in human rights defence is politicized by the Nomenklatura, this noble cause has again, as under the Soviet regime, fallen on the shoulders of civic human rights defenders. Now we are not only without the support of the State, but in overcoming the incredible resistance of the Nomenklatura, we are forced to undertake the work for which taxpayers pay you enormous amounts of money.

The collapse of the law enforcement system in Ukraine.. Any individual can be unlawfully detained in a SIZO [remand centre] on the instructions of an employee of the prosecutor’s office without court order

The collapse of the law enforcement system in Ukraine.. Any individual can be unlawfully detained in a SIZO [remand centre] on the instructions of an employee of the prosecutor’s office without court order

Director for the Media Law Institute Taras Shevchenko believes that many of the points in the draft law are at variance with norms of European practice