The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

07.10.2014 Invitation to photo exhibition “Capital Punishment”

The joint protect of the photojournalist Siarhei Balai and the campaign "Human Rights Defenders Against Death penalty in Belarus" will be presented on October 7 at the gallery "Goliaths" (Valhahradskaya Street, 4a, metro station “Maskouskaya”). The event will begin at 6 p.m.

07.10.2014 Week Against Death Penalty: News from Belarusian regions

Human rights activities within the framework of the Week Against the Death Penalty in Belarus are held in Belarus on October 5-10 under the slogan "Death Penalty Is Murder".

07.10.2014 Week Against Death Penalty opens with poster exhibition

October 5, the Week against the Death Penalty started in Minsk. It was opened with an exhibition of posters dedicated to this issue. The majority of them belong to a project of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, “Death Is Not Justice”. The logical centre of the exhibition was formed by a series of works “Six Arguments Against the Death Penalty”, created by a Belarusian artist from Vilnius, Siarhei Ablazhei.

06.10.2014 Yury Rubtsou sentenced to 18 months of personal restraint

Today, October 6, socio-political activist Yury Rubtsou has been sentenced to 2.5 years of personal restraint. However, the sentence has been reduced to 1.5 years due to the amnesty. Therefore, the defendant will have to serve 1.5 years of personal restraint.

06.10.2014 Ex-political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich is blocked at home

Since 6 a.m., police have been trying to get to the Minsk apartment where the former political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich lives. The reasons remain unknown.

06.10.2014 Eduard Lobau doesn't receive warm clothes in prison

The political prisoner continues to wear summer clothes, thought the weather became significantly colder.

05.10.2014 Uladzimir Lemesh about conditions in Salihorsk detention center: 3 mattresses per 15 people

An activist of the "European Belarus" Uladzimir Lemesh spent last weekend in Salihorsk detention center. The activist called the conditions of detention there inhuman and degrading and intends to file a complaint about this.

05.10.2014 Baranavichy: Statkevich-senior congratulated on Teacher's Day

October 3, Baranavichy social and human rights activists visited and congratulated Viktar Statkevich (father of the political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich) who worked for 35 years as a history teacher, on his professional holiday. Despite poor health, Statkevich -senior hospitably and friendly received the visitors in his apartment.

05.10.2014 Aleh Ablazhei: It is difficult to convey death penalty by artistic allegories

October 5, an exhibition of a well-known Belarusian artist from Vilnius Aleh Ablazhey opens in Minsk as a part of the Week Against the Death Penalty.

05.10.2014 Week against Death Penalty to start with poster exhibition

October 5, an exhibition of posters dedicated to the problem of the death penalty opens in Minsk. The visitors will be showed a series of short films "Six Arguments against Death Penalty", specially created by the Belarusian artist from Vilnius Aleh Ablazhei, and worksfrom the large-scale project Death Is Not Justice, submitted to the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.

03.10.2014 Ex-candidate continues appealing his detention at polling station

October 2, civil society activist Valery Karankevich against filed a complaint to the Office of Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus.

03.10.2014 Andrei Paluda: “Just think for a moment, how does the killing of a killer take place?!”

In Belarus, the Week against the Death Penalty is held for the second year already. The main message of this year's Week is "Death penalty is murder". The week against the death penalty will be accompanied by very expressive images of the performers of the death penalty and the victim.

03.10.2014 Activist of Belarusian Christian Democracy detained in Asipovichy

As reported by the press-service of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, a member of its organizing committee Aleh Masalski was detained while walking on the street in a T-shirt with a portrait of the political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich. When his wife went away to a booth, he was detained by a police patrol which was driving by at the time.

03.10.2014 Pavel Vinahradau to be tried again

Another administrative case has been brought against the “Zmena” activist Pavel Vinahradau. Today it will be considered by the Maskouski District Court of Minsk.

02.10.2014 Supreme Court upholds registration denial to “Covenant”

The Supreme Court upheld the legality and validity of the position of the Ministry of Justice, which refused to register the national human rights NGO "Movement for the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" ("Covenant").