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5 February, 2021
On January 21, the Department of Financial Investigations at the
Committee of State Control in Belarus started an investigation of the educational
human rights defence institution “Office for the Rights of People with
Disabilities.” The director, Sergey Drozdovskiy, and lawyer Oleg
Grablevsky were brought to the Committee, the accountant Tatiana
Krishtal had her phone and computer confiscated. Unidentified people
tried to enter the flat of the former deputy director Mikhail
Matskevich. The Committee announced as the official reason for detention the appropriation of resources received as gratuitous donations and foreign aid for the purpose of providing assistance to people with disabilities
Tackling hate crime: what Lithuania can learn from Sweden and Ireland
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Lithuania s police register only a handful of hate crimes every year. But the real scale of the problem is much bigger – the society lacks awareness, and despite running training programmes, the police often choose not to investigate, according to experts.
What can Lithuania learn from Sweden and Ireland in tackling hate crimes? The National Human Rights Forum raised this question in its discussion Response to Hate: Examples of Good Practice.
The Lithuanian society does not recognise the scale of hate crimes, according to Goda Jurevičiūtė, project manager at Human Rights Monitoring Institute. Various groups still choose not to report such offences for fear of negative reactions, she said.