08.11.2012 “AI” representative Heather McGill not let in Belarus
The Belarusian authorities denied a visa to Amnesty International’s researcher on Belarus, Heather McGill.
07.11.2012 "Young Front" activist Uladzimir Yaromenak gets detained
As it became known at about 6 p.m. on 6 November, the "Young Front" activist Uladzimir Yaromenak was detained on Nezalezhnasts Square in Minsk and guarded to the Maskouski District Police Department in Minsk.
06.11.2012 Vasil Paliakou appeals groundless detention
On 5 November the head of the Homel regional branch of the Unitec Civil Party and the party's deputy head Vasil Paliakou applied to the Savetski District Prosecutor's Office of Homel in connection with a groundless detention by police.
06.11.2012 Official propaganda stirs up hostility to independent trade unions
The administration of the Babruisk Tractor Parts Plant (BTPP) accused the leader of the enterprise’s Free trade union of a desire to deprive people of their right to work.
06.11.2012 Syrian opposition calls on UK to sanction Lukashenka's regime for supporting Assad
Today, a London-based human rights organization 'Syrians in the UK' sent a letter to members of the British Parliament requesting to take action against Belarus and a possibility of 'Europe's last dictatorship' to grant asylum to Bashar al-Assad. 'Syrians in the UK' asked MPs to consider increasing sanctions against Belarus and warning UK and European companies against doing business with state-owned Belarus companies.
05.11.2012 Vitsebsk members of CCP-BPF are prohibited to hold their 7 November action
“The Vitsebsk City Executive Committee sent an answer to our application. According to it, the application was not granted as we were asking to authorize a meeting and procession in the places where such actions are not allowed and we would violate the law by holding it. In fact, it is not us who violates the law in this case,” says a member of the Conservative-Christian Party “Belarusian Popular Front” Yan Dziarzhautsau.
05.11.2012 Human rights defenders join the “Stand up for Journalism!” action
“Stand up for journalism!” action is held all over the world for the fifth time this days. The action is held by the International Federation of Journalists and the European Federation of Journalists for the fifth time already.
05.11.2012 Navapolatsk: Christian democrat Siarhei Malashenka is pressurized
On the eve of the constituent assembly of the public organization “Young Christian Democrats” unidentified persons damaged Malashenka's car by punching two tires on his car. People in mufti also visited his father at work, asking whether to put his son in prison or no.
05.11.2012 Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich gets completely isolated
The prison administration doesn't allow the prisoner to meet with a priest, he does not receive letters and parcels. Mikalai Statkevich told about the refusal of the administration to allow the meeting already a month ago, during the visit of the apostolic nuncio Claudio Gugerotti. The prison administration another time promised to bring a priest to the political prisoner. However, in the letter written a month after the meeting with the nuncio, Statkevich says he still had no meeting with a priest – the prison administration said the priest was away on a mission.
02.11.2012 Front Line Defenders condemns the harassment of human rights defender Aleh Volchak
The international human rights organization voiced its protest against the tax pressurization used towards Aleh Volchak. Here’s the full text of the appropriate statement.
02.11.2012 Show solidarity with ARCHE!
“ARCHE” is the only thick monthly magazine in the Belarusian language which has been regularly issued since 1998. However, the events that have been taking place since the arrest of it’s the then chief editor Valer Bulhakau can put a cross on the further existence of the edition.
02.11.2012 Yan Dziarzhautsau: the ruling of the city executive committee is impossible to implement
Yan Dziarzhautsau, a member of the Conservative-Christian Party “Belarusian Popular Front”, filed an application for holding a picket on 7 November. “According to the ruling of the executive committee, we must supply the application with service agreements, concluded with the police, the city medics and the public utilities”, he says.
02.11.2012 Slutsk: civil activist gets fined 1 mln rubles for stickers
The administrative commission of the Slutsk District Executive Committee found the civil activist Vital Amialkovich guilty of violating the urban maintenance rules (Article 21.14, part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offences) as a result of the second consideration of his case.
02.11.2012 Human rights defender Siarhei Ustsinau not included in the civil commission on supervision over activities of the organs and institutions which execute punishments
According to the website protivpytok.org, the supervisory commissions act on the basis of the Ruling #1220 of the Soviet of Ministers of 12 September 2006.
02.11.2012 Slutsk District Executive Committee: “It is impractical to repair the borders in winter”
In October volunteers gathered more than 300 signatures of Slutsk residents under the demand to make pedestrian crossings more accessible.
