News for 9 Jul 2013

Political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich: "Whatever hard and hopeless it can be, but our time is coming, and their time is going"

09.07.2013 Political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich: "Whatever hard and hopeless it can be, but our time is coming, and their time is going"

Mr. Dashkevich hopes to get released next month, after the end of the additional one-year prison term for "malignant insubordination to the administration of the penitentiary". He wrote about it in a letter to the Bialynichy journalist Barys Vyrvich, received by him on 9 July.

09.07.2013 Andrei Haidukou's counsel appealed the verdict

As the journalists informed by Andrei's mother, Volha Haidukova, the lawyer Vadzim Mushynski appealed the verdict at the Supreme Court of Belarus.

Slonim District Prosecutor upholds regular bans on mass events

09.07.2013 Slonim District Prosecutor upholds regular bans on mass events

A few weeks ago the head of the Slonim organization of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, Ivan Bedka, complained to the prosecutor of the Slonim district about the ban on a picket in support of physician Ivan Sheha. "For ten years, the Slonim District Executive Committee hasn't authorized any mass events of democratic forces in Slonim. Thereby officials routinely violate my constitutional right to peaceful assemblies," wrote Mr. Bedka.

Show your support! Send a message to Ales Bialiatski before 12 July!

09.07.2013 Show your support! Send a message to Ales Bialiatski before 12 July!

Ales Bialiatski, chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna", has been in prison since 4 August 2011. In November the same year, he was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison and confiscation of property for alleged tax evasion. In fact, the sentence is related to Ales Bialiatski’s work for human rights in Belarus.

09.07.2013 Independent journalist Alena Stsiapanava to stand trial

A Vitsebsk member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists Alena Stsiapanava is charged with violation of the Law "On Mass Media". The police believe that she cooperated with a foreign media without receiving the state accreditation in the due order.

09.07.2013 Sobering-up stations renamed to "special isolation facilities" to eliminate negative perception

In Belarus, the delinquents' isolation centers and sobering-up stations are reorganized. The corresponding decree № 307 "On the issues of improvement of the internal affairs of the Republic of Belarus" was signed by Aliaksandr Lukashenka on 8 July.

Warning to activist of "Tell The Truth" left in force

09.07.2013 Warning to activist of "Tell The Truth" left in force

Aliaksandr Kuzmin, activist of the civic campaign "Tell the Truth" from Belaaziorsk, received a response to his complaint from the Brest Regional Prosecutor's Office, signed by the deputy prosecutor, senior adviser of justice Aliaksandr Tochka.

Builder threatens journalist Siarhei Serabro with a pavement tile

09.07.2013 Builder threatens journalist Siarhei Serabro with a pavement tile

On 5 July the photo journalist of the online newspaper "Narodnyia naviny Vitsebska" Siarhei Serabro was preparing photo essay on the impact of a flood caused by a heavy rain in Vitsebsk. In particular, he paid interest to a pit formed in the center of town, opposite the shopping center "Marco City".

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