20.06.2014 Human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka: I’ll find online detractors
On June 19, Judge Anatol Sotnikau of Homel’s Chyhunachny District Court granted an appeal lodged by local human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka against an earlier decision by the District Police Department who closed a defamation case initiated by the human rights activist after unknown persons insulted and slandered against him and other activists of the Homel region on the website gomelbest.com.
19.06.2014 Khotsimsk Prosecutor’s Office again justifies detention of candidate
Valery Karankevich, a civil society activist from the town of Khotsimsk, received yesterday a response to his complaint from the Mahiliou Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
19.06.2014 Another complaint submitted to UN Human Rights Committee
Uladzimir Shyla, an opposition activist from the town of Salihorsk, has submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee to appeal against a ban on a Human Rights Day imposed by the executive officials back in December 2013.
18.06.2014 UN Special Rapporteur cannot get access to Belarus
UN Special Rapporteur Miklós Haraszti accuses the Belarusian authorities of human rights violations and lack of cooperation with the international organisation.
18.06.2014 Stefanovich: New UN Human Rights commissioner will deal with Belarus
UN priorities towards Belarus will not change.
18.06.2014 UN Human Rights Committee to consider complaint by Hrodna defender Viktar Sazonau
The UN Human Rights Committee admitted to consideration a complaint by Viktar Sazonau, a human rights defender from Hrodna, Radio Racyja reports.
18.06.2014 Valiantsin Stefanovich: “In 1996, when a referendum was held, there was no life imprisonment in Belarus”
Why does Belarus retain such a means of punishment as the death penalty? Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Valiantsin Stefanovich believes that the cause must be sought in the Soviet past. In the USSR, the death penalty was used for a wide range of crimes.
18.06.2014 The Last Dawn: Belarusian musicians against the death penalty (video)
The Minsk-based Graffiti club hosted yesterday the presentation of the project of Belarusian musicians called Aposhni Zolak (“The Last Dawn”). In this way, a number of famous musicians, among them Hanna Khitryk, Aliaksandr Pamidorau, Zmitser Vaitsiushkevich, Anastasia Shpakouskaya, Viktar Rudenka, Liavon Volski, spoke against the death penalty. Last year they had a big concert in Bialystok, and Belarusian fans were able to watch it online.
18.06.2014 OSCE representative calls on Belarusian authorities to repeal accreditation requirements for journalists
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed her concern about an increasing number of penalties imposed on journalists in recent months in Belarus for not being accredited by authorities.
18.06.2014 Police detain Tell the Truth activist in Babruisk
Yanina Ausianik, an activist of the “Tell the Truth” campaign, was detained last evening in Babruisk while collecting signatures for an initiative called “People’s Referendum”. She was then taken to the police station.
17.06.2014 Live to see The Last Dawn: Audio and video presentation!
Aposhni Zolak (“The Last Dawn”) continues the traditions of such musical projects as “Narodnya Albom” ("The People's album ") “Ya Naradziuskia Tut” ("I Was Born Here") and “Sviaty Vechar” ("Holy Night"). However, the project is devoted to a very sensitive and vital issue – the death penalty.
17.06.2014 BHC petitions Constitutional Court to address discrimination of Belarusian language
The Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the well-known lawyer and human rights defender Hary Pahaniayla sent a petition to the Constitutional Court to highlight the flaws of language-related legislation, which result in the discrimination of one of the official languages, Belarusian.
17.06.2014 Prominent human rights defender Barys Zvozskau remembered two years after death
The second anniversary of the premature death of the well-known Belarusian human rights activist Barys Zvozskau is marked today, June 17. Barys Zvozskau would have turned 63 years, the age is not critical, but the disease does not choose.
17.06.2014 Political prisoner Lobau meets with his mother in correctional facility
Maryna Lobava returned after a long-term visit to her son. She said it to charter97.org.
17.06.2014 Homel human rights defender initiates prosecutor’s probe over language discrimination
Anatol Paplauny, a human rights activist from Homel, asks prosecutor Siarhei Zaitsau Gomel to inspect a local building center named “OMA”, where his complaint in the Belarusian language received a written answer in Russian. The store manager Natallia Urubleuskaya argues that “business correspondence and legal documents should be sent to the population in Russian”.
