News for 27 Jul 2012
27.07.2012 Mazyr: predictable replies to HR defender Tseliapun
On 26 July, Mazyr human rights defender Uladzimir Tseliapun received negative replies from local district executive committee and council concerning his application for holding a demonstration on 4 August to demand the release of Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski.
27.07.2012 Biaroza activists dissatisfied with CEC’s reply
Siarzhuk Rusetski and Tamara Shchapiotkina, pro-democratic activists from the town of Biaroza, Brest region, have received a reply to their proposals on amending the electoral legislation.
27.07.2012 Administrations of Babruisk hostels deny access to canvasser
Valiantsina Hlukhava, member of the initiative group of Speak the Truth activist Aksana Samuilava, who is running for Parliament in constituency No. 79, has not been allowed canvassing for votes inside a number of local hostels.
27.07.2012 Pavel Sapelka: Situation with Anton Surapin’s detention in KGB prison reminds of December 2010
Human rights lawyer Pavel Sapelka says the current situation of journalist Anton Surapin, who has been reportedly denied access to his lawyer for two days, may repeat the events of December 2010, when persons arrested on charges of involvement in mass riots were not able to meet their counsels for weeks.
27.07.2012 Lawyer has no access to Surapin for two days
A lawyer was not allowed to see his client Anton Surapin in the KGB jail on July 25 and 26.
BelaPAN learned it from the mother of the jailed photographer.
27.07.2012 Worker fired for pictures of dirty margarine
The loader was asked to work on his weekend, and then he was fired for absenteeism.
27.07.2012 Activist detained on Independence Day
Mrs. Nina Bahinskaya, activist of the Belarusian Popular Front “Christian Conservative Party”, has been detained while displaying a white-red-white flag outside Minsk Pershamaiski District Court.
27.07.2012 Zhodzina authorities ban picket of solidarity with political prisoners
The authorities of the town of Zhodzina have banned a picket in support of Ales Bialiatski and other political prisoners scheduled for 4 August.
27.07.2012 Rights defender urges company's staff to annul nomination of Viktar Huminski for House of Representatives
Human rights defender Ihar Lednik has petitioned the staff of AAT Ekran to annul their decision to nominate Viktar Huminski for the House of Representatives.
27.07.2012 Joint Statement of 15 international MPs on the situation in Belarus
27.07.2012 Polish MEP Marek Migalski, as a participant in Libereco-Partnership for Human Rights’ Prisoner’s Godparenthood Campaign, issued a statement on the situation in Belarus, which was supported by 14 other international members of parliament. Today, they expressed their support for the democratic aspirations of the people of Belarus and called upon Belarusian authorities to cease the persecution of dissidents, human rights defenders and journalists in Belarus and to release and exonerate all political prisoners immediately and unconditionally.
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