News on the topic: human rights defenders
09.10.2014 Karel Schwarzenberg: “I can't understand those who, having lived up to the 21st century, advocate the death penalty”
October 8, well-known Czech politician and public figure Karel Schwarzenberg took part in human rights activities together with representatives of the European embassies, members of the Working Group on the Death Penalty in Belarus.
09.10.2014 “Capital Punishment” visited by the mother of a death row prisoner
A resident of Vialeika Tamara Sialiun, whose son Pavel was executed on a verdict of the Hrodna Regional Court in April 2014, visited the photo exhibition of the journalist Siarhei Balai “Capital Punishment”. The heroines of this photo project are Sviatlana Zhuk, Liubou Kavaliova, Tamara Sialiun, Volha Hrunova and Tamara Chikunova – the mothers, whose children's lives were taken by the state under the guise of anti-human law.
09.10.2014 Human rights activist Tamara Chikunova in Homel: “Our indifference means consent to legalized murder”
On October 8, Homel human rights activists held a meeting within the framework of the Week Against the Death Penalty, which was attended by mothersof those sentenced to death: the founder of the public association "Mothers against the Death Penalty and Torture" (Uzbekistan) Tamara Chikunova, Vileika resident Tamara Sialiun and Homel resident Volha Hrunova. Pavel Sialiun has been executed, Aliaksandr Hrunou is on death row now.
09.10.2014 Invitation to the public lecture of Tamara Chikunova
Today, October 9, a lecture of the human rights activist Tamara Chikunova, the founder and head of the Uzbek organization "Mothers against the Death Penalty and Torture", will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the gallery of "Goliaths" (Valhahradskaya Street, 4a, metro station “Maskouskaya”).
09.10.2014 International human rights defenders: Belarusian dictator openly supports the death penalty: the only hope is for the civil society (videos)
Chairperson of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty Florence Bellivier and FIDH President Karime Lahidji video addresses on the occasion of the Week against the Death Penalty in Belarus.
07.10.2014 Mother of victim of miscarriage of justice: “Thanks God I didn't give in to the sense of revenge”
Having lost her only son, who was executed innocent, she became the mother of all death row prisoners in Uzbekistan. Having achieved the abolition of the death penalty in the country, she is fighting for its abolition primarily in Belarus. Tamara Chikunova is a guest of honor of the Belarusian Week Against the Death Penalty and one of the heroines of the photo project "Capital Punishment", which tells the story of a mother of death row convict.
07.10.2014 Week Against Death Penalty: News from Belarusian regions
Human rights activities within the framework of the Week Against the Death Penalty in Belarus are held in Belarus on October 5-10 under the slogan "Death Penalty Is Murder".
06.10.2014 Yury Rubtsou sentenced to 18 months of personal restraint
Today, October 6, socio-political activist Yury Rubtsou has been sentenced to 2.5 years of personal restraint. However, the sentence has been reduced to 1.5 years due to the amnesty. Therefore, the defendant will have to serve 1.5 years of personal restraint.
05.10.2014 Baranavichy: Statkevich-senior congratulated on Teacher's Day
October 3, Baranavichy social and human rights activists visited and congratulated Viktar Statkevich (father of the political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich) who worked for 35 years as a history teacher, on his professional holiday. Despite poor health, Statkevich -senior hospitably and friendly received the visitors in his apartment.
02.10.2014 Supreme Court upholds registration denial to “Covenant”
The Supreme Court upheld the legality and validity of the position of the Ministry of Justice, which refused to register the national human rights NGO "Movement for the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" ("Covenant").
02.10.2014 Bahrain: recently released political prisoner Nabeel Rajab arrested again
As reported by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and FIDH Deputy Secretary General has been arrrested and faces up to three years of imprisonment for tweets allegedly insulting the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
01.10.2014 Third edition of “Gray Book” issued in Vitsebsk region
The third volume of the yearly chronicle of human rights violations in the Vitsebsk region “Gray Book” has been published. The volume of the book is 140 pages, it covers the period since July 2013 until June 2014.
30.09.2014 Human rights defender Tankachova may be stripped of her residence permit in Belarus
Against the human rights activist, head of educational organization "Center of Legal Transformation (Lawtrend)» Alena Tankachova started the procedure of deprivation of her residence permit in Belarus.
29.09.2014 An overview on the freedom of association in Belarus was presented at the OSCE Human Dimension Meeting
At the annual OSCE Human Dimension Meeting was held a side event "Freedom of association and the legal environment for civil society organizations in Belarus” in Warsaw on September 26. The organizers of the event were the Assembly of Democratic NGOs of Belarus and the Center for Legal Transformation.
25.09.2014 Vice-speaker of the Bundestag is going to support all political prisoners in Belarus
Vice-speaker of the Bundestag Katrin Göring-Eckardt, the representative of the Green Party, has congratulated the head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski on his birthday, which he celebrates today.
