A/HRC/20/8 (e) Put an immediate end to all forms of pressure on and harassment of civil society organizations, as well as individual human rights defenders; and release immediately and unconditionally Ales Bialiatski, and withdraw charges brought against him and other human rights defenders; (f) Take measures to ensure that civil society organizations have the freedom to perform their tasks; revoke the official warnings issued against civil society organizations, and cease the practice of issuing such warnings; (g) Put an immediate end to all forms of pressure on journalists and media workers; withdraw all charges against journalists prosecuted for their professional activities, and take measures to rehabilitate them; and recall official warnings issued against newspapers and cease such practice; (h) Ensure freedom of expression and create a legal environment and practices conducive to the effective freedom of the media; eliminate the practice of censorship and self-censorship; and ensure that Internet control measures are minimal and that regulations do not lead to censorship of electronic media and freedom of speech; (i) Ensure full compliance with international standards for due process and fair trial; put an immediate end to all forms of pressure on judges, lawyers and members of the bar; and ensure that the bar is free and independent of all forms of administrative control by the Government; (j) Cooperate fully with all United Nations human rights mechanisms, and fully implement all recommendations made at the universal periodic review and by treaty bodies and special procedures; (k) Cooperate fully with OHCHR, including by providing access to an OHCHR technical team to visit Belarus and to engage directly with the relevant authorities and civil society actors; (l) Establish a national human rights institution in compliance with the Paris Principles; (m) Establish a moratorium on all executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; (n) Initiate a comprehensive review of the overall legal framework, including the Criminal Code, as well as the laws amended in 2011, bringing them into line with the State’s international human rights obligations, and, in doing so, seek international expertise available from the United Nations, OSCE and the Council of Europe; (o) Study the findings and observations reflected in the report of the OSCE election observation mission in Belarus, the report of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism Rapporteur58 and the report of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights on trial monitoring in Belarus,59 and implement fully the recommendations made therein. 58 59 See footnote 10. Available from www.osce.org/odihr/84873. 19

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