09.06.2015 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok gets incarcerated
The political prisoner has been placed in a punitive isolation ward for 7 days for refusing to work.
09.06.2015 Yarmoshyna proposes to hold 'elections' on October 11
The Central Election Commission proposes to hold presidential 'elections' on October 11.
08.06.2015 Mikalai Dziadok gets transferred to prison union and sent to work
As it follows from a letter of political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok, cited by the website abc-belarus.org, the bureaucratic protractions surrounding his transfer to the prison unit are over.
08.06.2015 Ivacevičy District Prosecutor's Office warns freelance journalist
In the morning on June 8 Pavel Dailid (pictured) was summoned to the district prosecutor's office, where he was handed the text of an official warning "about the inadmissibility of offenses".
08.06.2015 Yury Belenki appeals actions of Minsk official to prosecutor's office
The leader of the Conservative Christian Party BPF Yury Belenki has appealed to Minsk prosecutor, seeking the punishment of the deputy head of Minsk City Executive Committee I. Karpenka.
08.06.2015 Human Rights Humanitarian Mission: diary of volunteers
June 6, participants of "Human Rights Humanitarian Mission in Ukraine” Aliaskei Kolchyn and Zmitser Salauyou have received 134 calls to the hot-line of the Public Charity Foundation "Station Kharkiv".
08.06.2015 Colony authorities to female prisoners: “You are nobody!”
The editorial office of the website “Homieĺ Spring” has met with a former prisoner of Homieĺ women's penal colony №4, who agreed to talk about the conditions there with the condition of anonymity.
08.06.2015 Homieĺ journalists get fined
Freelance journalists Natallia Kryvashei and Kanstantsin Zhukouski, were fined Br3.6 million by Buda-Kashaliova District court.
05.06.2015 13 arguments showing that conditions in penal colonies are not "almost like in the army"
Lawyer of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Pavel Sapelka compares the challenges faced in prisons in Belarus with the Soviet and European practice and draws 13 arguments showing that present-day Belarusian penal colonies aren't “almost like the army”.
05.06.2015 State does not want to admit its guilt in illegal imprisonment of Mikhail Hladki
For several years already Mikhail Hladki has been seeking recognition of his right to compensation for materials and moral damages and prosecution of those who had participated in the proceedings in his case.
05.06.2015 Kryčaŭ District Court drops administrative case against Uladzimir Kudrautsau
June 4, the consideration of the administrative case against the publisher of the newspaper "Voĺny Horad" Uladzimir Kudrautsau, who was charged with libeling the employee of the main bureau for combating organized crime of the Kryčaŭ District Police Department Aliaksandr Dziameshka, finished at the Kryčaŭ District Court.
05.06.2015 FIDH: European governments must take action to release the political prisoners in Azerbaijan
One week before the opening ceremony of the first European Games in the history of the continent, FIDH calls on the European leaders to make the participation of their countries in the opening ceremony of the Games contingent upon the release of political prisoners and activists placed in pre-trial detention on trumped-up charges.
05.06.2015 Committee against Torture to continue its activities in Chechnya
This is the statement made by representatives of the organization at its Facebook account.
05.06.2015 Human Rights Humanitarian Mission launched in Kharkiv
June 4, Human Rights Humanitarian Mission started its work in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
05.06.2015 Škloŭ police watch opposition activists
Before Aliaksandr Lukashenka's visit to Škloŭ the local police persecute the opposition.
