13.11.2014 Mahiliou residents complain to Lukashenka about manipulations with their apartments
Residents of Mahiliou filed a collective appeal to President Lukashenka concerning their illegal eviction from their apartments. They require an examination of actions of the local officials, who can be involved in corruption schemes.
12.11.2014 “Incident with Andrei Bandarenka is a rude and cruel provocation”
Chairman of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski commented on the hunger-strike of the imprisoned human rights activist Andrei Bandarenka.
12.11.2014 Babruisk hunger-strikers questioned by police
As reported to BelaPAN by Aliaksandr Varankin, the activists of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union, having gone on a hunger strike because of their discharge from Babruisk plant of tractor details and aggregates, were questioned at the police office.
12.11.2014 Coordinator of BCD organising committee summoned to prosecutor's office
Aliaksandr Khrapko, a coordinator of the organising committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party (BCD) and People's Control campaign in Brest, has been called to the prosecutor's office of the Brest region to be served a warning “against repeating a crime,” charter97.org learnt from the BCD press service.
12.11.2014 Amnesty International: Belarus Must Stop Imminent Execution: Eduard Lykau
Amnesty International is deeply concerned that death row prisoner Eduard Lykau is at imminent risk of execution in Belarus.
12.11.2014 Azerbaijan must stop its suppression of civil society
46 NGOs from 10 Human Rights Houses call upon Azerbaijan to stop the on going suppression of civil society, as Azerbaijan's chairmanship of the Council of Europe ends.
11.11.2014 Andrei Bandarenka declares a hunger-strike in prison
The father of the imprisoned human rights activist, Valery Bandarenka, reported the reasons to FFE/RL.
11.11.2014 Babruisk hunger-strikers are summoned to police
The members of the primary unit of the Free Trade Union of Belarus, dismissed from the plant of tractor details and aggregates in Babruisk, continue their hunger-strike.
11.11.2014 Brest: MPs ignore appeals of electors
Almost a month ago, activists of the public initiative «Social Office» sent inquiries to members of the Brest City Council to find when and where they are going to report to their electors about their activities since the election.
11.11.2014 Svetlahorsk activist complains to prosecutor's office about setting fire to his mailbox by unidentified persons
Svetlahorsk social activist Yury Liashenka has filed an application to the prosecutor's office requesting to check some facts of illegal actions of unidentified citizens. In the night of 4-5 November, they set his mailbox on fire. “I called the police, and during a conversation I remembered that in August, when I r
10.11.2014 Babruisk hunger-strikers, questioned at police department, declare indefinite hunger-strike
“At present, about 20 people are ready to join the hunger strike. Tomorrow they are going to write an appeal addressed to the local officials and submit it to the executive committee. We haven't received any response from the city authorities so far,” added the head of the primary unit of the FTUB.
10.11.2014 Fired for upholding struggle against «shadow accountancy»
The contract system of employment deprived employees of both state and private enterprises of their rights. In particular, the head of the private enterprise “Trans-Line-Brest” Aliaksandr Tsyhanchuk dismissed two truckers who carried cargoes abroad and had long labour records without any penalties.
10.11.2014 Dzetsiuki band get detained by riot police while shooting clip
8 November in Zaslauye, all members of the rock band Dzetsiuki and the shooting crew were detained while shooting a video clip for the song «Khloptsy-balakhoutsy» («Balakhovich's Guerillas») from the album «Haradzenski Harmidar» («Hrodna Mess»). All in all, 18 people were detained.
07.11.2014 Vitsebsk authorities ban picket dated to anniversary of October revolution
Members of the Conservative Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front Piatro Sarapenia and Yan Dziarzhautsau wanted to conduct their event on November 7 in order to inform the citizens about the consequences of the October coup d'etat and the need to ban the Communist Party of Belarus and its ideology.
07.11.2014 Babruisk: fired members of Free Trade Union continue hunger-strike near the plant administration
Four retired members of the Free Trade Union of Belarus, fired from the Tractor Details and Aggregates Plant, continue hungering for the second day already.
