News on the topic: human rights defenders
02.01.2015 Biaroza activists visit Yury Rubtsou
Since December 22 Homel resident Yury Rubtsou, sentenced to 18 months of personal restraint (after the use of amnesty), has been kept in the open penitentiary institution No. 7 in the village of Kuolin in Pruzhany district, where a co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Pavel Seviarynets used to serve his 3-year term of personal restraint.
02.01.2015 National Human Rights Award 2014
The website charter97.org announced winners of the National Human Rights Award 2014.
26.12.2014 Human rights activist Alena Tankachova appeals expulsion in court
Alena Tankachova, Director of the Center for Legal Transformation “Lawtrend”, sent on December 24 to the court of Minsk’s Pershamaiski district an appeal against the decision of the district police department to expel her from the country for three years.
17.12.2014 Minsk police uphold decision to expel Alena Tankachova
Thus, the Ministry of the Interior did not use the opportunity to recognize the absurdity of the situation related to the expulsion of the Belarusian human rights activist, according to eurobelarus.info.
15.12.2014 Young human rights activists joined the Letter Marathon
December 14 in Minsk, Belarusian youth human rights group (BYHRG) held an action on signing postcards for liberation of political prisoners in different countries and sending postcards to the places of their imprisonment.
15.12.2014 Warsaw: human rights defenders from from different countries picket Azerbaijani Embassy
December 12 in Warsaw, representatives of human rights organizations from Poland, Germany, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia and Belarus gathered for a picket against the persecution of their Azerbaijani colleagues. They handed over to the Azerbaijani Embassy a statement adopted at the general meeting of the European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE), recently held in Warsaw.
15.12.2014 Homel: court refuses to instigate criminal proceedings on the lawsuit of the death row convict Aliaksandr Hrunou's mother
The Tsentralny District Court of Homel refused to institute civil proceedings against the Homel Regional Court and the Department of Corrections, which refuse to inform Volha Hrunova about the burial place of her son. December 13 woman filed an appeal against the refusal of the district court with the Homel Regional Court.
12.12.2014 “Viasna” joins postcard marathon for political prisoners
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" has joined the campaign, launched by the Belarusian House in Warsaw with the approach of the major winter holidays – Christmas and New Year.
12.12.2014 Political activist Pavel Vinahradau moving to exile in Berazino (photos)
December 12, leader of “Zmena” (the youth wing of the civil campaign “Tell The Truth!” Pavel Vinahradau had to move out of Minsk in order to evade fate of a “political dipsomaniac”.
12.12.2014 Verdict on Pavel Levinau's case to be pronounced December 17
Vitsebsk human rights activist Pavel Levinau is a participants of a photo shoot with a graffiti depicting newspaper birds flying out of cages.Vitsebsk police qualified this photo shoot as an unauthorized picket.
12.12.2014 Hrodna human rights defenders: repressions against civil society activists are increasing
December 11, Hrodna human rights activists held a round table dedicated to summarize the results of the year, discuss pressing issues and the difficulties faced by human rights activists.
12.12.2014 Biaroza human rights and civil society activists send postcards to political prisoners
All six political prisoners will receive warm greetings from Biaroza. The signers of the postcards believe that it is important to receive support in prison walls, and regard their letters and postcards as a small moral support.
11.12.2014 Robiert Tyszkiewicz: Ales Bialiatski is the face of the Belarusian people
Former Belarusian political prisoner, the head of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski received an award named after the Polish Ombudsman Pawiel Wlodkowicz. The prize is awarded annually for the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms.
11.12.2014 Homel Centre for Strategic Litigation sums up the results of the year: three communications registered at the UN Human Rights Committee, decisions issued on seven more
In 2014, 27 people applied to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations with the assistance of Homel Centre for Strategic Litigation. As a result, three communications were accepted for consideration on the merits.
11.12.2014 Salihorsk authorities put a veil of secrecy over the regulation limiting right to peaceful assembly
An attempt of Salihorsk human rights defenders to obtain from the local authorities a copy of the regulation which restricts the freedom of peaceful assembly, brought no results.
