The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

Dwellers of the Barysau suburb Dymki spent four years asking the authorities to save their houses from flooding. The addresses to the Barysau District Executive Committee and the Minsk Regional Executive Committee gave no results. In 2010, on the eve o the presidential election, the people applied to the Presidential Administration.

Residents of the villages Stara-Barysau and Pchelnik have been sending collective addresses to various state bodies for more than a month, asking to refrain from the construction of a garbage-processing plant close near their settlements. Residents of the villages Stara-Barysau and Pchelnik have been sending collective addresses to various state bodies for more than a month, asking to refrain from the construction of a garbage-processing plant close near their settlements.

Barysau human rights defender Aleh Matskevich has received a reply from the UN Human Rights Committee saying that his complaint against several picket bans imposed by the town authorities has been registered by the Committee.

Citizens of the villages Pchelnik, Stara-Barysau and the agrarian settlement Dziamidauka disagree with the authorities' intention to construct the plant close to their homes athwart the initially published plans.

The Barysau human rights defender Aleh Matskevich received an "answer" to his appeal to the Soviet of Ministry concerning the unconstitutionality of the proposal of the deputy prime minister Anatol Tozik to introduce a 5,000-fee for visits to Belarusian polyclinics.

On 10 March Herasimovich, Judge of the Barysau District Court, considered the administrative cases against Anatol Askerka and Ivan Shutko and sentenced them to 15 and 10 days of arrest for participation in an unauthorized mass action.

At about 11 a.m. on 9 March police officers came to Anatol Askerka's home and took him away to the Barysau District Police Bureau. He managed to phone to human rights defender Aleh Matskevich and tell him about it.

Barysau district prosecutor’s office has ordered to re-open a criminal investigation against Aliaksandr Malchanau and Andrei Mikalayeuski under Article 370 of the Criminal Code (“desecration of national symbols”).