Human Rights Magazine "Lawtrend Monitor" # 4 is published

The Legal Transformation Center continues to inform the readers about the human rights problems in Belarus, issuing its fourth digest of international news on human rights.

The leading topic of the new issue of the magazine is the international solidarity. In addition, we talked to the judge from Germany on the international standards of the independent trial.

Experts of the issue

Andrei YUROV — human rights defender, expert of the Council of Europe, honorary president of the Youth International Human Rights Movement, member of the Council on development of civil society and human rights under the auspices of the President of Russia, head of the International Observation Committee of the Committee of International Control in Belarus.

Jan BERGMAN — jurist, law teacher, judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of Baden-Wьrttemberg land (Germany).

Hanna HERASIMAVA — head of the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius.

Florian IRMINGER — head of the Geneva office of the Human Rights House.



Contents

• Response of international communit y to event s in Belarus;

• Anna HERASIMAVA : “Sometimes statements/assessments by international human rights organizations seem not to have direct practical effect”;

• Special rapporteur — UN reaction to Belarusian problems;

• Florian IRMINGER: “Civil society has 3 main ways to use the mechanism of the country Special Rapporteur”

• INTERVIEW with Andrei YUROV: “We not only react to some situation in some country, but we also stand up for our friends whom we have known for pretty long and whose professionalism we cannot doubt”;

• Standards of fair trial: independence of judges in Belarus;

• INTERVIEW with the judge Jan BERGMAN: “We work according to the principle of freedom under control...”.

You can download the English version here.