11.12.2013 Members of Brest City Councils ignore electors' appeals
About 40 members of the Brest City Council failed to respond in the term specified by the Law “On Citizens' Applications” to the applications submitted by members of the public initiative “Social Office”.
11.12.2013 Brest police hold a prophylactic talk with Ryhor Hryk
On 10 December the head of the Baranavichy branch of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry Ryhor Hryk was summoned for a prophylactic talk at the police station No. 3 Kasmanauty Street, 6.
11.12.2013 Brest: two pickets held on Human Rigths Day
One of the pickets was organized by the chair of the Brest regional branch of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry Zinaida Mikhniuk, and the other – by the human rights activist Uladzimir Vialichkin. At the picket organized by the TUREI, the people spoke about the protection of workers' rights, while participants of the other one demanded freedom for political prisoners, holding posters with portraits of political prisoners and postcards with Ales Bialiatski behind bars.
11.12.2013 Brest marks Human Rights Day with a round table
The event was attended by human rights activists, members of political parties, NGOs, trade unions and independent media.
11.12.2013 Babruisk activists congratulate Ales Bialiatski on Human Rights Day
On 10 December Babruisk activists a congratulatory telegram to Babruisk penal colony No. 2.
11.12.2013 Political prisoner Ihar Alinevich is first winner of Frantsishak Aliakhnovich prize
On 10 December, Human Rights Day, the Belarusian PEN Center and Radio "Liberty" announced the winners of the Frantsishak Aliakhnovich award for the best work written in prison.
10.12.2013 Uladzimir Shytsikau awarded with a fine on Human Rights Day
On 3 November Homel democratic activists commemorated the victims of Stalinist repression at the 9th kilometer of the highway to Chernihiv.
10.12.2013 Human Rights Alliance announces the winners in its nominations
The results of the third yearly nomination have been announced by the Human Rights Alliance.
10.12.2013 Body of Ihar Ptsichkin exhumed
According to Ihar's relatives, the exhumation was conducted on 4 December. The results of the re-autopsy will be known in a month.
10.12.2013 Political prisoner Eduard Lobau met with his mother
Eduard Lobau, who is serving the imprisonment term in the penal colony number 22 in Ivacevichy, was allowed a long-term meeting with mother.
10.12.2013 Investigative Committee “sees no reasons” to punish the personnel of Mahiliou penitentiary for torture
Minsk resident Liudmila Kuchura, whose husband was tortureed with chlorine in the penitentiary No. 15 in Mahiliou, received a reply from the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus to the complaint in which she requested to initiate a criminal case on this fact.
10.12.2013 Minskers are congratulated on Human Rights Day
Traditionally, on 10 December, International Human Rights Day, human rights activists and volunteers hold information actions in Minsk. This time they handed out the texts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, printed materials on the topic of the death penalty and answered questions relating to the human rights situation in Belarus.
10.12.2013 Illia Dabratvor summonsed to police on Human Rights Day
Late in the evening of 9 December the police came to the apartment of the activist of the solidarity movement "Together" Illia Dabratvor. However, only his wife and minor children were at home at that time. The woman was told that there was an urgent need to compose a report of questioning of here husband and was questioned why her husband was still not home.
10.12.2013 FIDH and "Viasna" present the report "Forced Labor and the Pervasive Violation of Workers’ Rights in Belarus" on the Human Rights Day
Belarus authorities use of every means possible to feed the country’s economy to the detriment of its citizens’ economic and social rights. Internationally publicized as the «last European socialist paradise», Belarus forces large portions of its population to work, sometimes without pay and especially without the possibility to protest harsh or unfair conditions. These are the main observations of a report published today by FIDH and HRC Viasna.
09.12.2013 Dismissed activist of the independent trade union to receive 1 million rubles as a compensation
Luninets District Court partially granted the claim of Leanid Dubanosau who was fired from the enterprise in Mikashevichy.
