The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

22.08.2012 Ashmiany court turns down complaint by local pro-dem activist

Ashmiany Court has dismissed a complaint lodged by local pro-democratic activist and human rights defender Mikalai Ulasevich against illegal actions by the customs officers who seized the activist’s personal belongings on 10 April.

03.08.2012 Rasony: road police confiscate image production of “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections”

The operation was conducted by officers of the “Typhoon” unit of the road police of the Vitsebsk region. In the evening of 2 August a car carrying stationery, bags and T-shirts with logos of “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” was stopped by the road police.

12.07.2012 Minsk: police confiscate car from potential candidate for Parliament

At about 6.30 p.m. officers of the Mahiliou City Road Police Department stopped the car of the coordinator of the “Speak the Truth!” civil initiative in the Mahiliou region Aksana Samuilava. The alleged reason was that she hadn't let a passer-by cross the street at a pedestrian crossing.

18.06.2012 Orsha police chiefs justify seizure of local independent newsletter

The confiscation of a number of copies of the Nash Dom independent newsletter on 20 May was legal, says a reply from Orsha Department of Internal Affairs.

25.05.2012 Journalist appeals confiscation of printed materials

Yulia Kanapliova, journalist of the Vitsebski Kurier independent newspaper, has lodged a complaint with Orsha court.

24.05.2012 Vitsebsk human rights defender urges local police to secure right to free dissemination of information

Mikalai Petrushenka, human rights defender and activist of the Nash Dom campaign, has addressed head of Vitsebsk regional department of internal affairs Aliaksandr Naidzenak with a letter, urging the high police official to provide explanations concerning the confiscation of printed materials from journalist Yulia Kanapliova on 20 May.

21.05.2012 Vitsebsk police detain pregnant journalist

Vitsebsk police keep harassing the staff of local independent newspaper Vitsebski Kurier, as the weekly’s reporter Yulia Kanapliova was detained by road police on 20 May.

15.05.2012 Court rejects Liabedzka’s lawsuit against KGB

Judge of the Tsentralny District Court of Minsk Alena Siamak refused to consider the lawsuit of Anatol Liabedzka against KGB. Since April 2011, the politician has been trying to get back the notebook and money which had been confiscated from him during a search.

15.05.2012 Belarusian customs officers seize laptop from Danish journalist

On 12 May customs officers at Minsk-2 airport carried out a 4-hour examination of a Danish journalist Jens Nilsen.

30.04.2012 Activist robbed during Chernobyl Way rally

Activist from Varnyany Mikalai Ulasevich continues to seek justice from the local authorities.

30.04.2012 Biarozauka police seize independent newspapers

On 27 April, the police of the town of Biarozauka, Lida district, Hrodna region, detained local activists of the Belarusian Popular Front Party and For Freedom movement Siarhei Trafimchyk and Vitold Ashurak, and seized 800 copies of the Novy Chas independent newspaper.

25.04.2012 Policemen defile white-red-white flags seized during search at European Belarus activist’s flat

Aliaksandr Vialitchanka, activist of the European Belarus opposition movement, has finally managed to return the leaflets, banners and national flags seized by the police during a search at his apartment back on 15 February 2012. The things were returned as a result of a complaint lodged with Minsk Savetski District Police Department.

25.04.2012 Activist of anti-Lukashenka online campaign has his laptop seized

Belarusian customs officials seized a laptop belonging to Siarhei Biaspalau, activist of the Revolution through Social Network online campaign, after he was searched on a train crossing the Polish-Belarusian border on 23 April.