22.05.2014 While the World Ice Hockey Championship takes place, violations continue… Video n°3
Belarus is hosting the World Ice Hockey Championship, which started last Friday and will end on 25 May. FIDH has made 3 short animated films to denounce the human rights violations taking place in Belarus. These abuses cannot be camouflaged by the Championship.
22.05.2014 British journalist not allowed to Belarus
Channel 4 News journalist Jonathan Rugman was stopped this morning while crossing the Belarusian border, charter97.org said quoting a message he posted on his Tweeter account.
22.05.2014 Police Officers Ignore the Law
The deputy chair of BAJ and lawyer Andrei Bastunets gives a comment on the latest wave of warnings given to regional journalists.
22.05.2014 Klimavichy resident appeals against biased decision of administrative commission
Alena Marchanka, a resident of the village of Domamerychy, Klimavichy district, filed today a complaint with the Court of Klimavichy district against the decision of the administrative commission of the Klimavichy District Executive Committee of May 13, 2014.
21.05.2014 UN Human Rights Committee rules against government in Zhlobin oppositionist’s case
On March 28, the UN Human Rights Committee said that the Belarusian authorities violated the right of a member of the Zhlobin office of the Belarusian Left Party “Fair World” Uladzimir Kirsanau to freedom of peaceful assembly by prohibiting him in 2008 to hold a picket in Zhlobin in order to attract public attention to problems faced by the country’s political parties and public associations.
21.05.2014 The case of Ivan Famin: Innocently executed
In 1998, the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, which was then called “Viasna-96”, received a complaint from the mother of Ivan Famin, who was sentenced to death. The woman gave the human rights defenders several letters that were written on death row and were passed through so called prison mail.
21.05.2014 International Trade Union Confederation: Belarus among worst countries for workers
Belarus, together with Bangladesh and Cambodia, is among the countries constantly violating labor rights, says a survey published by the International Trade Union Confederation.
21.05.2014 Another detention in Minsk
Football fan Yauhen Manko, 20, was detained on May 8. The Savetski District Court of Minsk sentenced him to 20 days of administrative arrest. The young man is now serving the sentence in the detention center in Akrestsin Street.
20.05.2014 Journalist Ales Zaleuski to stand trial for working for Belsat TV
The journalist will stand trial in Karelichy District Court on May 28.
20.05.2014 Journalist Sentenced to Ten Days' Arrest for “Hooliganism”
Yauhen Skrabets, a member of BAJ, journalist for the Belarusian Radio Racyja and activist of the Young Front movement, was detained on Saturday, May 17, not far from his home in Brest and accused of minor hooliganism (article 17.1 of the Administrative Code).
20.05.2014 Opposition activist Zmitser Dashkevich leaves jail after completing 25-day term
Prominent opposition activist Zmitser Dashkevich was released from a detention center in Minsk on Monday evening upon completion of a 25-day jail term.
20.05.2014 Vitsebsk Regional Court rejects appeal by editor of independent paper
Heorhi Stankevich, a teacher and poet of the town of Beshankovichy, was going to challenge the decision of the district court, who on April 3 fined him 7.5 million rubles for the production and distribution of the newspaper Kryvinka.
20.05.2014 Civil Rights Defenders leader detained at Čyžouka Arena
Robert Hårdh, Executive Director of Sweden’s Civil Rights Defenders human rights group, arrived yesterday in Minsk to meet with the head of the Swedish Hockey Federation Christer Englund at Čyžouka Arena, where Sweden played Italy as part of the World Championship.
19.05.2014 While the World Ice Hockey Championship takes place, violations continue… Video n°2
Belarus is hosting the World Ice Hockey Championship, which started last Friday and will end on 25 May. FIDH has made 3 short animated films to denounce the human rights violations taking place in Belarus. These abuses cannot be camouflaged by the Championship.
19.05.2014 Civil Rights Defenders on their way to Minsk in support of Ales Bialiatski
Almost four years has elapsed since Robert Hårdh, Executive Director of Civil Rights Defenders was last in Belarus. In 2010 to monitor the Belarusian election together with Ales Bialiatski – 2014 to highlight the fact that Ales has been behind bars since 4 August 2011 on trumped up charges.
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