10.09.2015 Conditions for campaigning get worse in Žodzina
The deterioration of the conditions for campaigning in Žodzina has been registered by an independent observer at the Žodzina City Election Commission Aliaksei Lapitski.
10.09.2015 Supreme Court upholds punishment to Aliaksandr Mekh for laying flowers
The Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the Kobryn District Court, according to which in December 2014 Aliaksnadr Mekh had been sentenced to a fine of 1.5 million rubles for the laying of flowers at the monument to Kanstantsin Kalinouski and Ramuald Trauhut in Svislach while honoring the memory of the heroes Kalinouski.
09.09.2015 Human Rights House Network celebrates its 20th anniversary
The International Human Rights House Network celebrates its 20th anniversary. The festivities with the participation of the Belarusian human rights defenders and representatives of non-governmental organizations are taking place these days are in Oslo.
09.09.2015 Invitation to press-conference on results of first part of electoral campaign 2015
At 11 a.m. on September 11, the civil campaign "Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections" will hold a press-conference, dedicated to summarizing the monitoring results of the first stage of the presidential electoral campaign in Belarus.
09.09.2015 Viciebsk: school-children's parents forced to give written undertakings to vote for Lukashenka
At school No. 38 in Viciebsk, the parents who attended a parental assembly were told to give undertakings they would vote early for Lukashenka. This was reported to the coordinator of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Tatsiana Seviarynets by the mother of a first-grade pupil.
09.09.2015 Family is tried for “housing picket” in downtown Homieĺ
September 8 in Homieĺ Yauhen and Azaliya Hodars were judged for a picket they had held in the center of Homieĺ. The reason for the picket was that the family received just 48.3 square meter apartment instead 51.6, as was indicated in the contract they had signed with a construction firm.
09.09.2015 Human rights activists meet with PACE delegation
September 8, representatives of Belarusian human rights organizations had a meeting with a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) at the office of the EU Mission in Minsk.
09.09.2015 It is virtually impossible to find about working schedule of Brest PECs
According to an independent observer Uladzimir Vialichkin, the first organizational sittings of the precinct election commissions, formed within the frames of the current electoral campaign, were held without the public attention.
09.09.2015 Former political prisoner Statkevich still eager to hold his electoral picket and treats police intimidation with irony
The former political prisoner told “Nasha Niva” that on September 8 he was summonsed for a “talk” to the Main Police Department of the Minsk City Executive Committee. The reason was that he intended to hold a picket in the center of Minsk (near HUM department store) on September 10 do demand free elections.
08.09.2015 Aliaksei Mikhalevich detained on Belarusian border and released under “non-leave recognizance” (updated)
As learned by the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, this morning a former presidential candidate in 2010, Aliaksei Mikhalevich, has been detained while crossing the border by train Vilnius-Minsk.
08.09.2015 Zhana Ptsishkina cannot get acquainted with resolution of Prosecutor General's Office regarding son's death
The mother of Ihar Ptsichkin, who died in prison in Valadarski Street in Minsk on August 4, 2013, has been seeking justice for a long time already, trying to establish the circumstances of the death of her son and bring to justice those guilty of the tragedy.
08.09.2015 KGB pressurizes participants of Aliaksandr Charkashyn's funeral at work
As reported by a member of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, deputy of the Pieršamajsk Rural Executive Committee Valery Bilibukha, KGB officers phoned to the Ivacevičy Forestry and asked why he had been absent from work on September 3. That day, however, he took an unpaid leave.
08.09.2015 Hrodna Regional Election Commission won't work because of sitting of Eurasian Inter-governmental Council
The information that the Hrodna Regional Election Commission won't work on September 8, was published at the official website of the Hrodna Regional Executive Committee.
08.09.2015 Detention of protesters near Palace of Independence
In the afternoon on September 7, the real estate investors, who were defrauded by the developer Ltd. Valyń held another picket.
08.09.2015 Tajik opposition activist Shabnam Khudoydodova, detained in Brest, is still in jail
This was reported by human rights activist Raman Kisliak, who reminded that the citizen of Tajikistan had been detained at the central railway station of Brest during the border control, while going to Poland.
