14.05.2015 Mikhail Hladki has another chance to get compensation for 5 years in prison
Mikhail Hladki filed a supervisory appeal to Chair of the Minsk regional Court. There he expresses disagreement with the rulings of the Minsk District and Minsk Regional Court by which he is denied material and moral compensation for wrongful conviction under Part 1 st.139 Criminal Code, "murder".
14.05.2015 Mikalai Statkevich’s wife received first letter from Mahilyou prison
Maryna Adamovich, the wife of the political prisoner and a former candidate for presidency, has received the first letter from Mahilioŭ prison №4.
14.05.2015 Lawyer Pavel Sapelka: State has replaced the system of parole with giveaway amnesties
May 13 The House of Representatives of the National Assembly adopted in the first and second reading a bill on amnesty in connection with the 70th anniversary of the Victory. According to the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihar Shunevich if the amnesty law comes into force, it will concern some 8,600 convicts, 2.2 thousand which will be released from prison. Will there be political prisoners among them?
14.05.2015 Leanid Sudalenka is questioned as a witness in the case of pornography distribution
May 13 the HomieÍ regional department of the Investigative Committee questioned human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka, Chairman of the HomieÍ branch of the NGO "Legal Initiative" as a witness in the criminal case.
14.05.2015 Svietlahorsk District Court justifies medics who injected unknown substances to handicapped civil society activist
May 13, Svietlahorsk District Court finished hearing the civil case instigated on a lawsuit of wheel-chair user, civil society activist Yury Liashenka against ambulance medics. The plaintiff asked to find illegal the actions of the medics who had detained him at his one-man picket, driven him to the hospital and given injections of unknown substances.
13.05.2015 Members of Chamber of Representatives adopt draft bill on amnesty
May 13, the draft “On amnesty in connection with the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". It was presented by the Minister of Interior, Ihar Shunevich. He reminded that the draft law had been prepared on errand of Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
13.05.2015 Infographics: death penalty in Belarus in 2009-2015
The campaign «Human Rights Defenders against Death Penalty in Belarus» was launched in 2009.
13.05.2015 Yury Rubtsou continues hunger strike and prepares for trial
Despite all persuasions of medics, Yury Rubtsou continues hungering at Baranavičy remand prison.
13.05.2015 Biaroza: court hearing on picket ban postponed to May 20
May 12 at 11 a.m. Biaroza District Court was to have started the consideration of the appeal of the local human rights defenders against the ban of the picket they intended to hold on March 25 to mark the 97-th anniversary of the Belarusian People's Republic and express solidarity with political prisoners.
13.05.2015 Bychaŭ police express dissatisfaction with Internet publication
Bychaŭ police demanded from Mahilioŭ resident Natallia to sign that he had no relation to a publication about one of its police inspectors at the website of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”.
13.05.2015 Mikalai Dziadok to serve another year in Horki colony
HRC “Viasna” has learned about the new place of imprisonment of political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok, who had been sentenced to another year in prison on February 26 for alleged willful disobedience to the prison administration.
13.05.2015 Uzbekistan: ten years after the Andijan massacre, the human rights situation is worse than ever
Paris, May 11, 2015. In commemoration of the ten year anniversary of the Andijan massacre, the FIDH, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), ACAT (Action by Christians Against Torture) and Fiery Hearts Club remind the international community of the dangerous oblivion of one of the bloodiest massacre of civilians in Central Asia.
13.05.2015 Members of Salihorsk branch of Belarusian Language Society demand real equality of languages
Participants of the solemn assembly of the Salihorsk city organization of the Belarusian Language Society named after Francysk Skaryna" adopted an appeal to the head of the House of Representatives and the Prime Minister with the requirement of real linguistic equality in the country.
13.05.2015 Belarus: MEPs launch initiative to defend human rights
May 12, 2015 ALDE Group Vice-President, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS (Liberal’s Movement of Lithuania) co-hosted in the European Parliament, a meeting with the relatives of six Belarusian political prisoners who came to share their experiences and talk about the human rights situation under Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.
13.05.2015 Human rights activist holding Savchenko portrait detained near Russian embassy
Natallia Harachka, a human rights activist of the initiative Legal Assistance to Citizens, was detained near the embassy of Russia in Minsk.
