08.05.2015 Preventive detention of fans of Football club Dynamo Minsk
As learned by the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, late in the evening policemen came to a FCDM fan with a search warrant. The detainee, Yury Belavusau, managed to pass this information.
08.05.2015 Journalist Tamara Shchapiotkina challenges court verdict
Independent journalist T. Shchapiotkina has filed an appeal to the Brest Regional Court against the verdict of the court of Leninski district of Brest, according to which she had been fined 40 basic units. In the appeal, the journalist asks to cancel the verdict and send the case for retrial.
08.05.2015 Will amnesty concern political prisoners?
President of Belarus Aliaksandr Lukashenka has passed to the House of Representatives the draft law "On amnesty in connection with the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". Will this amnesty concern Belarusian political prisoners?
08.05.2015 Journalist Volha Chaichyts to be tried for collaboration with "BelSat"
She is charged under Article 22.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, “work for foreign media without accreditation”. The writ was not handed to her in person, but was sent by mail.
08.05.2015 BCD organizing committee: Congress to be held outdoors if we won’t be able to rent premises
The organizing committee for creation of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party is ready to hold its founding congress in the open air.
07.05.2015 Viciebsk Regional Court dismisses appeal of unemployed oppositionist
Head of the regional branch of the Belarusian Popular Front party Leanid Autukhou wanted to achieve the lifting of the verdict of the Haradok District Court, according to which he was fined 5.4 million rubles. "I wish I was sentenced to arrest," says the unemployed activist.
07.05.2015 Valiantsin Stefanovich: It is worth reminding the Ministry of Justice about the position of the UNHRC regarding the non-registration of "Viasna"
In her speech in Geneva at the UPR procedure for Belarus, the representative of the Ministry of Justice Hanna Shpak stated that some groups are capitalizing on their status of unregistered public associations for political reasons. Deputy Head of Human Rights Center "Viasna" Valiantsin Stefanovich, who was present at that meeting, decided that it was worth reminding the officials of the Ministry of Justice about the history of the organization's non-registration.
07.05.2015 UN establishes violation of electoral rights of Leanid Sudalenka
As it became known today, the UN Committee on Human Rights adopted a decision on the complaint of a resident of Homieĺ, Leanid Sudalenka relating to the 2007 local elections.
07.05.2015 Baranavičy: prison guards refuse to pass newspapers to political prisoner Yury Rubtsou
Baranavičy civil society activists Siarhei Housha and Viktar Syrytsa have paid a visit to remand prison No. 6 in Bresckaja Street, 258 in Baranavičy and passed a parcel for the political prisoner Yury Rubtsou.
07.05.2015 Human rights activists demands to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure
Human rights activist Siarhei Ustsinau appealed to the National Center for Legislation and Legal Research with the request to draft a bill on introducing changes to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Belarus regarding the conduct of the examination.
07.05.2015 Journalists Aliaksandr Dzianisau and Aliaksandr Kirkevich file appeals
Hrodna freelance journalists Aliaksandr Dzianisau and Aliaksandr Kirkevich have filed appeals to Hrodna Regional Court. April 22, both of them had been fined by Judge of the Leninski District Court of Hrodna Alena Piatrova 20 base units under Article 22.9 of the Administrative Code for alleged illegal production and distribution of information products.
07.05.2015 Publisher of the newspaper "Voĺny Horad" will be judged
May 6, the publisher of the independent newspaper "Voĺny Horad" Uladzimir Kudrautsau received a notice from the Kryčaŭ District Court that the consideration of the administrative case against him would be held there at 9 a.m. on May 15.
07.05.2015 Police finish inspection against chief editor of "NAŠ Mahiĺoŭ"
No criminal case under Article 188 part 2 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (libel) will be instituted against Ihar Barysau.
06.05.2015 Yury Rubtsou: "I am going to declare a dry hunger-strike in the case of a closed trial"
The political prisoner Yury Rubtsou has sent a letter to the Human Rights Center "Viasna". In it, he writes that he is still keeping a hunger strike and is not going to stop. In such a way Mr. Rubtsou protests against the instigation of a criminal case under Article 415 of the Penal Code against him, which he considers fraudulent.
06.05.2015 UN Human Rights Committee: Belarus violates the right to life for the fourth time
The UN Committee on Human Rights found a violation of the right to life of Aleh Hryshkautsou, convicted to death by the Hrodna regional court on May 14, 2010. This was reported to BelaPAN by the lawyer Raman Kisliak, who represented the complainant in this international body within the framework of the campaign "Human rights defenders against the death penalty".
