13.12.2013 'Human Rights in Belarus’: "We are still trying to support the people and the civil society in Belarus"
The Association ‘Human Rights in Belarus’ (Menschenrechte in Belarus) published its 2013 Strategy Paper on the situation in Belarus and recommendations for active measures to be taken by the European Union and its Member States.
12.12.2013 Bialynichy entrepreneurs ordered to pay for New Year decorations
Bialynichy entrepreneurs and private enterprises must buy the necessary materials for decorating the town for the New Year holidays. This week , the appropriate “recommendation” has been sent to private companies and individual entrepreneurs by the Bialy Town Executive Committee.
12.12.2013 Hearings on the case of Slutsk activist to continue on 19 December
The trial of the organizer of the screening of a documentary about Slutsk anti-Bolshevik uprizing Zinaida Tsimoshak will continue on 19 December. She is accused under Article 23.34 of the Administrative Code (organization of or participation in an unauthorized mass event).
12.12.2013 Minsk Gay Pride 2013. Currently not rainbow
In Minsk on December 6 started Minsk Gay Pride 2013, however, instead of rainbow news, information about events related to the Gay Pride is more like police reports.
12.12.2013 Only photos are left from condemned cell in Baku
In Azerbaijan, the death penalty hasn't been used since 1998 , and Bailov prison, where death convicts were kept, was destroyed in July 2009. The building where the convicts were executed can be seen only in photos, as a reminder of barbarism.
12.12.2013 Pressurization of Mikalai Statkevich continues
With the onset of the cold season, the radiators suddenly stopped working in the cell of the political prisoner, former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich. Heating has been missing in this and the two neighboring cells for more than 4 days.
12.12.2013 Illia Dabratvor got detained
At about 8 p.m. on 9 December the police came to Illia Dabratvor's home, saying they needed to draw up a report of questioning. Only Illia's wife and minor children were at home, that's why the police tried to find where the activist was and why he was absent.
12.12.2013 Judge presents a fine to human rights defender Pyotr Ivanov on the 65th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights
Pyotr Ivanov held an action to mark the Human Rights Day, 10 December. He came to the center of Vitsebsk and handed out about 50 copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted 65 years ago by the UN General Assembly.
11.12.2013 Homel: human rights defenders mark the Human Rights Day by a meeting with people
Regional representatives of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, the Homel city orgnization of the republican public association "Legal Initiative" and the Homel Center for Strategic Litigation took floor during the meeting. The speakers noted that "man has no rights if he does not strive for their protection".
11.12.2013 Human rights defenders remind about the right to life on Human Rights Day
10 December is marked as Human Rights Day. On this occasion, the Barys Zvoskau Belarusian Human Rights House and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Vilnius held a public discussion on the criminal justice system and the death penalty in Belarus.
11.12.2013 Austrian human rights activists dedicate their annual report to Ales Bialiatski
On 10 December in Vienna Austrian League for Human Rights, an affiliate of the FIDH, presented its final report "Conclusions on Human Rights in 2013» («Menschenrechtsbefund 2013"), declaring that it is dedicated to the FIDH vice-President Ales Bialiatski.
11.12.2013 Ales Bialiatski: “All prizes and awards are an eloquent signal for all people of good and bad will in Belarus!”
Ales Bialiatski responded to news about the ceremony, at which his son, Adam Bialiatski, received the symbolic award of the status of a honorable citizen of Paris to his father.
11.12.2013 Ihar Pastnou: “Probably, I will be taken to hospital again, with a “worsening of psychic illness”
Vitsebsk medician Ihar Pastnou recorded a new video message to his countrymen. He again criticizes Vitsebsk medicine for low wages, speaks of human rights violations in the light of the current law "On psychiatric care" and the need for changes in the law.
11.12.2013 One-man picket in support of political prisoners held in Dziarzhynsk
On 8 December Aliaksandr Tarnahurski, an activist of the campaign “Together for Belarus”, held a picket in the center of the town of Dziarzhynsk.
11.12.2013 Human rights defenders congratulate Baranavichy residents on Human Rigths Day
Despite an official ban on the 10 December picket, human rights defenders and social activists held a rally in Baranavicjhy in honor of the 65th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The activists handed out booklets with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as information materials on human rights issues.
