11.10.2012 Orsha observers apply to Investigation Committee
Mikalai Dziamidau and Yauhen Anishchanka, coordinators of the “For Fair Elections – 2012” campaign who observed the voting at the polling stations of the election constituencies #26 and 27, discovered a number of violations of the Electoral Code of the Republic of Belarus.
11.10.2012 Minsk: human rights defenders show “Departed on Sentence”
On 10 October, marking the World Day against the Death Penalty, Belarusian human rights defenders held the first run of the documentary “Departed on Sentence”.
11.10.2012 Former candidate tries to appeal election results at Supreme Court
Ihar Sluchak, a former candidate for the Parliament at the Homel-Savetskaya constituency #34, filed an appeal against the results of the election at this constituency to the Supreme Court. He asks the court to abolish the ruling of the Central Election Commission of 5 October according to which he was denied in holding a repeated counting of votes. He also asks the court to appoint the repeated vote counting at the constituency.
10.10.2012 Baranavichy human rights activists hold street action on World Day against the Death Penalty
On 10 October the Baranavichy human rights defenders and civil activists marked the World Day against the Death Penalty.
10.10.2012 "Cause of Death __" documentary shown in Mahiliou
The showing, organized by the local human rights defenders, wasdated to the World Day against the Death Penalty, 10 October.
10.10.2012 Young artist Nasta Maistrenka urgently needs your help!
Nasta Maistrenka, a young artist from Belarus, suffers from a hard illness. Her family and friends urgently raise funds for a course of chemotherapy in Israel.
10.10.2012 Streamers “NO to Death Penalty” appeared in the center of Minsk
Youth activists hanged out the banners to mark the World Day against the Death Penalty and draw the public attention to the problem of the ongoing use of this kind of punishment.
10.10.2012 Today is the World Day against the Death Penalty
The idea to mark the Day against the Death Penalty belongs to the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which includes about 40 human rights organizations, including “Amnesty International”, as well as bar associations, unions and local governments from all over the world. In September 2007 the Board of Ministers of the European Council decided to mark the European Day against the Death Penalty within the framework of the World Day, as far as Europe is a space which has been factually free from the death penalty since 1997.
10.10.2012 Central Election Commission turns down appeal of Mahiliou observer
Alina Skrebunova asked the CEC to declare invalid the results of the parliamentary election at the polling station #48. According to her, the data of the virtual calculation of the electors who came to vote didn't correspond to the number in the commission's protocol.
10.10.2012 Slonim deputies oppose environmental protection initiatives
About 1.5 months ago a group of Slonim citizens addressed the Slonim District Council with the proposal to consider the question of putting a ban on the entry of private vehicles in the wood along the Slonim-Baranavichy highway and imposing fines for discharge of garbage in the Slonim forests.
10.10.2012 Prosecutor's office turned down appeal of Salihorsk observer
The Salihorsk District Prosecutor's Office considered an appeal of an observer of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, Uladzimir Shyla, concerning violations of the Electoral Code during the 23 September election.
10.10.2012 KGB officers disguise as representatives of Education Department
On 8 October a fourth-year student of the Sakharov University, Inna Panchkouskaya, was called to the Partyzanski District Department of Education in Minsk. The formal reason was to find out why the girl wanted to get a second higher education at the Belarusian State University. However, as it was found out later, the meeting was organized by the KGB, whose officers paid interest to Inna's foreign trips.
09.10.2012 Detentions on Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk
The cameraman of “Nasha Niva” Tatsiana Haurylchyk was detained why videoing an art performance on the Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk.
09.10.2012 “Platform” got liquidated
The Minsk City Economic Court granted the lawsuit of the Tax Inspection of the Savetski district of Minsk and ruled to liquidate the educational institution “Platform”.
09.10.2012 Human Rights House Network calls on Belarusian authorities to release of Ales Bialiatski
We, the undersigned members and partners of the Human Rights House Network, are deeply concerned about the continued detention of Ales BIaliatski and the significant deterioration of his detention conditions. Ales Bialiatski is the head of the Human Rights Centre “Viasna” in Belarus, Vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and is one of the founders of the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius (Lithuania).
