12.12.2014 Verdict on Pavel Levinau's case to be pronounced December 17
Vitsebsk human rights activist Pavel Levinau is a participants of a photo shoot with a graffiti depicting newspaper birds flying out of cages.Vitsebsk police qualified this photo shoot as an unauthorized picket.
12.12.2014 Prosecutor's office identified “some violations” in the examination of Uladzimir Lemesh's apartment
Most of the violations set forth in the activist's complaint against the illegal actions of police officers during an inspection of his apartment in the so-called "case of the red band" either “weren't noticed” by Salihorsk District Prosecutor's Office, or were considered legitimate. Still the institution had to react to some of the violations.
12.12.2014 Hrodna human rights defenders: repressions against civil society activists are increasing
December 11, Hrodna human rights activists held a round table dedicated to summarize the results of the year, discuss pressing issues and the difficulties faced by human rights activists.
12.12.2014 Kobryn: Ales Mekh fined 1.5 mln roubles for commemoration of Kalinouski insurgents
Deputy Head of Kobryn District Court Piatro Tsimashenka found the local activist Ales Mekh guilty of participation in an unauthorized mass event.
12.12.2014 Biaroza human rights and civil society activists send postcards to political prisoners
All six political prisoners will receive warm greetings from Biaroza. The signers of the postcards believe that it is important to receive support in prison walls, and regard their letters and postcards as a small moral support.
11.12.2014 Prized named after Frantsishak Aliakhnovich awarded to Bialiatski, Dashkevich, Fiaduta, Khalip Peker and Seviarynets
The founders of the prize, Radio “Liberty” and the Belarusian PEN Center, decided that these year's nominees were equal and therefore there could not be one winner.
11.12.2014 Robiert Tyszkiewicz: Ales Bialiatski is the face of the Belarusian people
Former Belarusian political prisoner, the head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski received an award named after the Polish Ombudsman Pawiel Wlodkowicz. The prize is awarded annually for the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms.
11.12.2014 Homel Centre for Strategic Litigation sums up the results of the year: three communications registered at the UN Human Rights Committee, decisions issued on seven more
In 2014, 27 people applied to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations with the assistance of Homel Centre for Strategic Litigation. As a result, three communications were accepted for consideration on the merits.
11.12.2014 Salihorsk authorities put a veil of secrecy over the regulation limiting right to peaceful assembly
An attempt of Salihorsk human rights defenders to obtain from the local authorities a copy of the regulation which restricts the freedom of peaceful assembly, brought no results.
11.12.2014 Andrei Khadanovich: prison is a cynic catalyst of literary creativity
Andrei Kadanovich, Chairman of the Belarusian PEN Centre, which, together with Radio Liberty organizes the literary prize named after Frantsishak Aliakhnovich, named the most outstanding works competing for the prize this year.
11.12.2014 Human rights defenders present “Report on Results of Monitoring of Places of Detention”
December 10, International Human Rights Day, the Human Rights Center "Viasna" presented an analytical report on the results of monitoring places of detention in the Republic of Belarus. The report was prepared by human rights activists in cooperation with an expert, lawyer Pavel Sapelka.
11.12.2014 Pavel Levinau is prohibited to hold a photo session
Human rights activist appealed to the Chyhunachny District Executive Committee to inform it about his intention to get photographed with his friends just for the sake of taking photos. However, he was answered that he had failed to implement the requirements of the regulation of Vitsebsk City Executive Committee “About mass events in the city of Vitsebsk”.
11.12.2014 Round table on the occasion of Human Rights Day held in Brest
The round table "Current status and new challenges in human rights work" was held on the initiative of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee in Brest.
10.12.2014 Brest activists remind about political prisoners on Human Rights Day
A two-hour picket dedicated to the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was held in Brest in the park soldiers-internationalists and was the only such event in Belarus which was permitted by the local authorities.
10.12.2014 Informational action in central Minsk
December 10, “Viasna” activists congratulated passers-by on the Human Rights Day in the centre of Minsk, handing out the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and information booklets on the death penalty.
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