The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

Anton Ivanou, an active user of social networks, and Tomas Yakavitski, a coordinator of the European Belarus received telephone calls.

On 30 August Judge of the Savetski District Court of Homel Shaustruk found Ihar Sluchak, a member of the United Civil Party, guilty of using obscene language in public (Article 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He was sentenced to 3 days of arrest (which he served awaiting the trial) and was released from custody right in the court hall.

The youngsters who held the flash-mob Free Hugs were warned about the inadmissibility of such actions.

His fiancée Nasta Palazhanka told about the results of his meeting with his lawyer on 24 August. Before this, the prison administration five times refused to allow Zmitser meet with the lawyer.

According to ucpbel.org, on 30 August Anatol Paulau, member of the United Civil Party and a figurant of the “19 December mass riot” criminal case, received two letters from the police.

The International Day of the Disappeared is an annual commemoration day created to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives. The impulse for the day came from the Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared (Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos, or FEDEFAM), an NGO founded in 1981 in Costa Rica as an association of local and regional groups actively working against secret imprisonment and forced disappearances in a number of Latin-American countries.

Yaraslau Bernikovich, a civil activist from the town of Hlybokaye, applied for authorization of the action in the first half of July. He intends to hold the picket on 3 September near the House of Culture.