News on the topic: human rights defenders
16.01.2013 Navapolatsk police also trace solidarity actions through Internet
The Navapolatsk activist Yauhen Parchynski was summonsed to the police for photos with portraits of Bialiatski at the entrance of the Navapolatsk City Court. Another participant of the action, Siarhei Malashonak, says he is ready to any development of the events, including a trial and a fine.
16.01.2013 Human rights defenders appeal fines at Hrodna Region Court
The Hrodna human rights defenders Viktar Sazonau, Raman Yurhel and Uladzimir Khilmanovich, each of whom has been fined 1.5 million rubles for holding an "unauthorized picket" on 10 December, applied to the Hrodna Region Court.
14.01.2013 Ales Bialiatski: "I am very grateful to the people who write me!"
In his letters of the New Year period Ales Bialiatski says that he "has been totally covered with the avalanche of letters and postcards when congratulations were added to the action of support". Sometimes he received about 500 letters a day from Belarus and abroad.
14.01.2013 Aleh Volchak addresses UN Human Rights Committee in connection with arrests
The head of the human rights center "Legal Assistance to the Population" Aleh Volchak applied to the UN Human Rights Committee with a complaint in which he lists the facts of systemic violation of the civil rights to freedom and personal immunity, as well as the use of politically motivated adverse discrimination.
14.01.2013 Orsha coalition of democratic forces got a letter from Ales Bialiatski
The Orsha coalition of democratic forces sent greeting letters to the 12 Belarusian political prisoners on the eve of the New Year holidays. The coalition participants wished all convicts spiritual strength, tenacity and faith in a better future for the new Belarus. The letter was signed by representatives of nine political parties and initiatives.
14.01.2013 Solidarity action with Bialiatski in Salihorsk (photo)
Last weekend the civil activists from Salihorsk expressed their solidarity with the imprisoned human rights defender Ales Bialiatski. The action was initiated by the local representatives of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and the editorial office of the saligorsk.org website.
14.01.2013 Ales Bialiatski wishes to Slonim activists to build the Belarusian home together
On the New Year eve members of the Slonim association of democratic forces sent greeting postcards to all political prisoners. Recently they have received an answer from Ales Bialiatski.
10.01.2013 Solidarity with Hrodna human rights defenders transcends state borders
Ukrainian human rights defenders declared an Internet action in support of the members of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Uladzimir Khilmanovich and Viktar Sazonau and the member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Raman Yurhel who had been fined for publishing a photo of themselves with a portrait of the political prisoner Ales Bialiatski on the web.
09.01.2013 European MP Marek Migalski supports Hrodna human rights defenders
On 5 January the Leninski District Court of Hrodna sentenced each of the three human rights activists to 1.5 million rubles of fine for a photo with portraits of the head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski.
09.01.2013 Navapolatsk human rights defenders hold action in support of Hrodna colleagues (photo)
The Navapolatsk activists held an action of solidarity with the Hrodna human rights defenders Uladzimir Khilmanovich, Viktar Sazonau and Raman Yurhel who had been fined for posting to the web a photo of themselves with portraits of Ales Bialiatski and brochures of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
08.01.2013 Homel human rights defenders ask to be punished for photos on the web
The Homel human rights defenders Anatol Paplauny and Leanid Sudalenka ask the head of the Chyhunachny District Police Department of Homel Henadz Khmaryk to give them administrative charges for the photo in the Internet, in which they express solidarity with their colleague, political prisoner Ales Bialiatski, and congratulate him on the jubilee.
07.01.2013 Hrodna: human rights defenders get fined 4.5 million rubles for a photo on the web
On 5 January the Leninski District Court of Hrodna considered administrative cases against the Hrodna human rights activists Uladzimir Khilmanovich, Viktar Sazonau and Raman Yurhel.
03.01.2013 Mikalai Autukhovich does not count on parole
On the New Year's Eve the political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich sent a letter to his friend, human rights defender Aleh Vouchak, who had also served in Afghanistan during the Soviet rule.
28.12.2012 Center for Strategic Litigation submits 29 communications to UN Human Rights Committee within a year
Since the beginning of 2012, the Homel-based Center for Strategic Litigation NGO has initiated 28 new strategic lawsuits and submitted 29 communications to the UN Human Rights Committee, 10 of which have already been registered. During 2012, the Committee adopted four decisions on the complaints prepared by the Center, which found violations of certain rights of Belarusian citizens.
25.12.2012 Liquidated rights group regains legal status under new name
The members of a prisoners' rights group called Platforma that was closed down by a court earlier this year have founded an organization under a new name.
