10.03.2016 EU Special Representative for Human Rights meets with Belarusian human rights activists
The Minsk office of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” hosted yesterday a meeting of representatives of a number of Belarusian human rights organizations with Mr. Stavros Lambrinidis, EU Special Representative for Human Rights, as well as Ms. Andrea Wiktorin, head of the EU Delegation in Minsk, and the EU Mission’s employee on political issues Ms. Renata Wrobel.
09.03.2016 Activists charged over picket in support of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko
Twelve people will stand trials on administrative charges of involvement in a picket staged today outside the Russian embassy in Minsk to show support for Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian helicopter pilot accused of murdering two Russian journalists.
04.03.2016 Mass Grave near Viciebsk: WWII or NKVD executions?
Viciebsk activists fail to get the results of exhumation of people’s remnants from the mass grave found near the village of Khaisy, Viciebsk region.
03.03.2016 Human Rights Defenders Offer Aid to CEC to Implement OSCE/ODIHR Recommendations
Experts of the campaign Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections worked out recommendations aimed to increase publicity and transparency at the future parliamentary elections.
03.03.2016 Death convict’s brother subject to pressure in a colony
Aliaxei Khmialeuski complains that he has been subject to unbearable pressure in Navasadskaya correctional colony No14 after death sentence was passed against his brother.
02.03.2016 Sport For Rights: Another human rights lawyer at risk of disbarment in Azerbaijan
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the other undersigned members of the Sport for Rights coalition express serious concern regarding the on-going disciplinary case against Yalchin Imanov, a prominent human rights lawyer in Azerbaijan.
02.03.2016 In the Beating Case, Fine against Journalist Upheld on Appeal
On March 1, the Minsk City Court, judge Valer Kamisarau considered the appeal filed by TUT.by correspondent Pavel Dabravolski.
02.03.2016 Viasna publishes report on monitoring places of detention in Belarus
The Human Rights Center “Viasna” has analyzed the situation in places of detention in Belarus and prepared a report on the results of monitoring in 2015.
01.03.2016 Lithuanian Constitutional Court receives alumni of International Law in Advocacy program
On 27-28 February, international experts joined ILIA (International Law in Advocacy) program lawyers from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine to discuss the application of UN and Council of Europe human rights mechanisms.
01.03.2016 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: February 2016
There were no new politically motivated criminal cases during the month, which is a continuation of the general trend of reducing the level of repression in the country observed since last August.
29.02.2016 UN Human Rights Committee registers complaint by freelance journalist Kanstantsin Zhukouski
The UN Human Rights Committee has registered a complaint by Kanstantsin Zhukouski, a freelance journalist in Homieĺ, who was fined for covering a protest in Svietlahorsk in November 2014.
26.02.2016 Lawtrend and Assembly of NGOs issue annual report on freedom of association
The Assembly of Democratic NGOs and the Center for Legal Transformation Lawtrend have prepared an annual report "Freedom of Associations and Legal Conditions for Non-Profit Organizations In Belarus".
25.02.2016 Freelance journalist Kanstantsin Zhukouski gets fourth fine in two months
On February 24, the Žlobin District Court fined Kanstantsin Zhukouski, a freelance journalist working for the Belsat TV channel, 16 million rubles on charges of illegal manufacturing media products (Article 22.9 of the Administrative Code).
24.02.2016 Belarus in Amnesty International's Annual Report
The situation after the October 2015 presidential elections, the death penalty, prisoners of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of association and human rights defenders, the rights of LGBT people - these are the key areas covered by Amnesty International's Annual Report describing Belarus's human rights record in 2015.
24.02.2016 Human rights defenders expect concrete measurable results
Representatives of Belarusian human rights organizations have met with the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Benedetto Della Vedova, Chief of Staff Lorenzo Golanti and the ambassador of the Republic of Italy to Belarus Stefano Bianchi.
