News for April 2014
09.04.2014 Belaruskali pensioners ready for protests
Pensioners of Belaruskali company want better conditions for elderly people.
09.04.2014 Mikhail Hladki: 8 years in jail for nothing, no compensation provided
In 2003, Mikhail Hladki was sentenced to 8 year of imprisonment for allegedly killing his brother. He served almost the whole prison term before it was found that the real killer was Eduard Lykau, who is now kept in the Minsk remand prison after being sentenced to death.
09.04.2014 Tatsiana Reviaka's Top-4 of human rights violations in 2013
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" issued another Review-Chronicle “Situation of Human Rights in Belarus in 2013”.
09.04.2014 Animated film “Executioner” to be shown at “Cinema Perpetuum Mobile 2014”
The animated film “Executioner”, created by a group of volunteers of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" in the campaign "Human Rights Defenders against the death penalty" was selected for display at the International Short Film Festival "Cinema Perpetuum Mobile" (Cinema Perpetuum Mobile in 2014).
09.04.2014 UN Human Rights Committee of registered appeal of Vitsebsk psychiatrist Ihar Pastnou
The medic was sent for foreced psychiatric treatment after numerous speeches criticizing the local authorities and the state of health facilities in Vitsebsk region. This direction was authorized by Vitsebsk Regional Court.
09.04.2014 Homel human rights defenders make a gift to school on International Romani Day
On the International Romani Day, April 8, Maryia Klimovich and Ales Yauseyenka sent a gift to Prybory secondary school where many Romani children learn.
09.04.2014 Workers from Bangladesh cheated in Baranavichy
As we've learned, the workers from Bangladesh, who worked as weavers for a few months at Baranavichy cotton production company, are sent home.
09.04.2014 30 facts about political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich
Mr. Autukhovich is a Belarusian entrepreneur, sentenced to 62 months in jail for alleged storing and trafficking five fire cartridges, whereas the real reason was his struggle against corruption. We decided to remind about the most important facts from his life.
09.04.2014 Prosecutor's Office refuses to reopen Uladzislau Kavaliou's case due upon new evidence
The mother and sister of the Vitsebsk dweller who had been charged with staging the blast in Minsk metro on April 11, 2011 and sentenced to capital punishment, addressed the Prosecutor General AliaksandrKaniuk with a request to reopen the criminal case in view of discovery of new facts, RFE/RL informs.
08.04.2014 Another death sentence issued in Belarus
26-year-old Homel resident Aliaksandr Hrunou has been repeatedly sentenced to death. According to the lawyer, the young man does not believe that he can be pardoned by the President, and therefore he is not sure whether he will apply for clemency.
08.04.2014 Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich released from jail
In prison, he was twice offered to write a petition for clemency to Lukashenka. The political prisoner refused to do it, not to be mocked for his “weakness” afterwards.
08.04.2014 Belarus: Confirmation in appeal of the ban of a book written by Mr. Ales Bialiatski
Statement of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders concerning the confirmation of the ban of "Enlightened by Belarusianness", authored by the imprisoned head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski.
08.04.2014 Political prisoner Eduard Lobau has problems with mail correspondence
Not all the letters come through from Eduard Lobau, who is serving imprisonment term in the penal colony number 22 in Ivatsevichy.
08.04.2014 Khotsimsk: civil society activist asks police to find slanderers
April 7, Valery Karankevich, a civil society activist from the urban settlement of Khotsimsk, applied to the Khotsimsk District Police Department.
07.04.2014 Hary Pahaniaila: It's time to review the law on death penalty
Human rights activist Hary Pahaniaila tells why the death penalty is torture for relatives of the executed, about the "right to kill" and the subjectivity of judges.
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