The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

A group of the Belarusian counsels which were persecuted by the Belarusian authorities addressed their Ukrainian colleagues with the words of support. They filed an appropriate letter to the Supreme Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of the Ukrainian Bar Association.

Two independent journalists from Mahiliou, Yauhen Hlushkou and Alina Skrabunova, received notices that they needed to come to the Bialynichy District Police Department to police inspector Aliaksandr Yemialyanau at 10 a.m. on 13 May.

The executive committee demands that dwellers of house 11/1 in Mir Avenue in Belaaziorsk pay a large sum of money for the carcass of their house 20 years after its construction. The dwellers, in their turn, demanded that the head of the executive committee Viachaslau Dabrouski provide them with the documents about the cost of the construction works, as they consider the sum to be too large.

Human rights defender Leanid Svetsik applied to the Central Election Commission with the proposal to introduce amendments to the Electoral Code. In particular, he asked to supply Article 11 of the Electoral Code with the notion of the legal status of election commissions. In her answer the CEC head informed him that his application wouldn't be considered on its merits.

The head of Homel Regional Court, Siarhei Shautsou, invented a new way to limit the constitutional rights of citizens. He believes that such rights can be restricted due to "objective circumstances".

The campaign was launched by the activists of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) who think that the adoption of the new law will contribute to the ordering of the existing juridical terminology, will make it possible to use the law in all spheres which concern the rights of common people and prevent tensions during clashes between the interests of the state and its citizens.

After a group of Brest residents applied to Brest Region Council in connection with the reluctance of the city authorities to familiarize the public with the local budget, it was published in "Brestskiy Vestnik" newspaper.

Brest journalist Alina Litvinchuk received an answer to her complaint from Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus, Aliaksandr Kaniuk. She appealed an official warning about the inadmissibility of the work of journalists without accreditation, issued to her at the end of 2012.