14.05.2013 Disgraced Belarusian counsels support their Ukrainian colleagues
A group of the Belarusian counsels which were persecuted by the Belarusian authorities addressed their Ukrainian colleagues with the words of support. They filed an appropriate letter to the Supreme Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of the Ukrainian Bar Association.
13.05.2013 Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in April 2013
In April, the human rights situation in Belarus remained consistently poor with a clear tendency to deteriorate. 11 political prisoners (Ihar Alinevich, Mikalai Autukhovich, Ales Bialiatski, Dzmitry Dashkevich, Mikalai Dziadok, Aliaksandr Frantskevich, Eduard Lobau, Artsiom Prakapenka, Pavel Seviaryents, Mikalai Statkevich and Yauhen Vaskovich) were still kept in jail; 2 persons continued to serve their terms of personal restraint (Sviataslau Baranovich and Dzmitry Miadzvedz); 8 more still had suspended or conditional prison terms (Andrei Dzmitryieu, Aliaksandr Fiaduta, Iryna Khalip, Siarhei Martsaleu, Uladzimir Niakliayeu, Andrei Pachobut, Vital Rymasheuski, Siarhei Vazniak) yatoslav Baranovitch).
13.05.2013 Health Service assures politician that prisoners are kept in good conditions in Vitsebsk detention center
Having served five days of arrest at the Vitsebsk detention center for spreading leaflets with invitation to Freedom Day rally, the head of the Vitsebsk regional branch of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Leanid Autukhou had to apply for medical assistance.
13.05.2013 Eduard Lobau was allowed to meet with his mother
Political prisoner Eduard Lobau, who is serving a 4-year prison term in the Ivatsevichy penitentiary "Vouchyia Nory" received the permission for a three-day meeting with his mother. The meeting was appointed on the next weekend.
13.05.2013 Ministry of Justice recognizes actions of Salihorsk District Court as unlawful
The Ministry of Justice took the side of the "Young Front" activist Andrei Tychyna in his long-standing dispute with the Salihorsk District Court.
13.05.2013 Independent journalists refuse to come to Bialynichy DPD
Two independent journalists from Mahiliou, Yauhen Hlushkou and Alina Skrabunova, received notices that they needed to come to the Bialynichy District Police Department to police inspector Aliaksandr Yemialyanau at 10 a.m. on 13 May.
13.05.2013 Belaaziorsk police vigilantly watched democratic activists
A voluntary cleaning of the recreation zone near Lake Belaye in Belaaziorsk was held under a vigilant supervision of the local police. Activists of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth!", the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) and the Free Trade Union of Belarus have cleaned this territory for several years already.
13.05.2013 Kalinkavichy: prosecutor ignores application of UCP activist Dzianis Rabianok
A Kalinkavichy activist of the United Civil Party Dzianis Rabianok didn't manage to find protection at Kalinkavichy District Prosecutor's Office.
10.05.2013 Pavel Vinahradau shown prophylactic films for nine hours at police station
At about 7 a.m. on 9 May the leader of "Zmena" (the youth wing of the civil campaign "Tell The Truth") Pavel Vinahradau was taken to the police station out of his apartment. He was released from the police department only on 4.45 p.m.
10.05.2013 Uladzimir Yaromenak taken 40 kilometers away from Minsk on release from jail
"Young Front" activist Uladzimir Yaromenak was driven 40 kilometers away from Minsk after serving 15-day arrest term.
10.05.2013 Head of Belaaziorsk City Executive Committee ignores address of 40 citizens
The executive committee demands that dwellers of house 11/1 in Mir Avenue in Belaaziorsk pay a large sum of money for the carcass of their house 20 years after its construction. The dwellers, in their turn, demanded that the head of the executive committee Viachaslau Dabrouski provide them with the documents about the cost of the construction works, as they consider the sum to be too large.
10.05.2013 Baranavichy: victims of Stalin's repressions commemorated on Victory Day
On 9 May civic society activists of Baranavichy commemorated the people who had perished during WWII and the times of Stalin's repressions. At first they laid down flowers to the Eternal Flame in the center of the city and then – near the cross to victims of Stalin's repressions of 1939-1953 at the crossing of Pirahou and Smalenskaya Streets (the place where "Kryvoye Kola" ("Crooked Circle") prison used to be situated). The iron cross was installed there in 1992 as a memorial sign to victims of Bolshevik repressions in Belarus.
09.05.2013 Mahiliou Court sides with deputy in land dispute
On 8 May Judge of Leninski District Court of Mahiliou Alena Dyblenka turned down the appeal of Dzmitry Yaustratau, a dweller of the village of Niadashava-2 in Mahiliou district, against the decision of the district executive committee about the transfer of the land of general use to farmer Yury Korshunau without holding public hearings.
08.05.2013 Catherine Ashton urges Belarus to introduce moratorium on death penalty
EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton today issued a statement condemning the death sentence imposed on a detainee of Mahiliou prison in Belarus after he murdered his cellmate.
08.05.2013 Siarhei Verameyenka gets fined for distributing printed matter without imprint
On 7 May the trial of Siarhei Verameyenka, an activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, took place in Leninski District Court of Hrodna.
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