Participating organizations

International Youth Human Rights Movement (YHRM) http://www.yhrm.org/
International Network of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly
International Civil Initiative for OSCE (ICI OSCE)
Moscow Helsinki Group - MHG (Russia) http://www.mhg.ru/
International Youth Resource Centre - IYRC (Ukraine) http://yrc-nis.org/
Center for Civil Liberties - CCL (Ukraine) http://ccl.cs-nis.org/,
Freedom, Legality and Rights in Europe (FLARE) http://flarenetwork.org/
International Helsinki Association
Network for Civil Society Cooperation in Eurasia Region (Eurasia IDEA network)
Public Movement "Multinational Georgia" (Georgia) http://www.pmmg.org.ge/
Kharkiv Regional Foundation "Public Alternative" (Ukraine)
Interregional Human Rights Protection Group - Voronezh / Chernozemie (Russia) http://www.irhrg.ru/
Komi Human Rights Commission "Memorial " (Russia) http://www.memorial-komi.org/
All-Ukrainian youth NGO “Foundation of Regional Initiatives” (Ukraine) http://www.fri.io.ua/
Civil Defense Fund (Lithuania)
Project “No Borders” of the Social Action Center (Ukraine) http://noborders.org.ua/
Human Rights Institute (Russia) http://www.hrights.ru/
Center for Development of Democracy and Human Rights (Russia) http://www.demokratia.ru/
Citizens against Corruption (Kyrgyzstan) http://www.anticorruption.kg/
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland) http://www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/ru
Human Rights Center "Postup" (Ukraine) http://postup.lg.ua/
Austrian Helsinki Association - For Human Rights and International Dialogue (Austria)
Association Promo-LEX (Moldova) http://www.promolex.md/
The Swedish Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (Sweden) http://www.ostgruppen.se
European Exchange (Germany) http://www.european-exchange.org/
Ryazan Regional Branch of All-Russian public movement "For Human Rights"

International Partnership for Human Rights / Международное партнерство за права человека (Belgium) http://www.iphronline.org/
Belarus Watch (Lithuania) http://www.belaruswatch.org/
Foundation "For environmental and social justice"
Armenian Helsinki Association http://hahr.am/

Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union http://helsinki.org.ua/en/
Kaluga regional "Memorial" (Russia)
“Lawyers for constitutional rights and freedoms” (JURIX) http://www.jurix.ru/
International historical enlightenment society "Memorial" http://memo.ru
Association of ukranian monitors of human rights in the law-enforcement" (Ukraine) 
Charity organization "Your Right" (Ukraine)
Independent legal council expert  (Russia) http://www.neps.ru/
Human Rights House Foundations (Norway) http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/5041.html
Public Foundation "Voice of freedom" (Kyrgyzstan) http://golossvobody.kloop.kg/
Public Foundation "Nota Bene" (Tajikistan)
Legal Policy Research Center (Kazakhstan) http://www.lprc.kz/
NGO „Valgevene Uus Tee“ (Estonia) http://www.valgevene.ee/en
Public organization "Territory of success" (Ukraine) http://watchdog-kr.org.ua/

News of Belarus

President welcomes the release of Ales Bialiatski

Today, Ales Bialiatski, a prominent Belarusian human rights defender who became the first laureate of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize in 2013, was released from prison after spending almost three years behind bars.

Commission Starts Negotiations of Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements with Belarus

Commission DG for Home Affairs, Stefano Manservisi and Belarus Deputy Foreign Minister Alena Kupchyna met in Brussels to launch the negotiations on Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements between the EU and Belarus. Since 2011 the Commission has been regularly reminding of its readiness to launch the negotiations.

The negotiations will focus on agreements to facilitate the procedures for issuing short-stay visas as well as the readmission of irregular migrants between the European Union and Belarus.

Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski could walk free

The political prisoner can be “pardoned” if “it is proved the damage he caused with the tax fraud has been repaid.”