News for December 2012
06.12.2012 European Commissioner Štefan Füle: release of Belarusian political prisoners remains a principal issue
It was once again stated by the European Commissioner during a meeting with the deputy head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Valiantsin Stefanovich and the head of the Belarusian Association of Journalists Zhana Litvina on 5 December in Brussels.
06.12.2012 Baranavichy authorities ban Human Rights Day picket
On 5 December the civil activist Viktar Syrytsa and the human rights defender Siarhei Housha received a letter from the Baranavichy City Executive Committee, signed by the deputy head Dz. Kastsiukevich.
06.12.2012 Front Line Defenders: Tax inspection service is being used by the authorities to put additional pressure on members of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”
Taciana has previously submitted a tax declaration covering the period from 2004 to 2010 in which no irregularities were found. Ms Taciana Reviaka is the president of the Belarusian Human Rights House and a council member of the Human Rights Centre Viasna, of which Mr Ales Bialiatski is the chairman.
06.12.2012 Relatives receive the first letter from Andrei Haidukou
The “Naftan” worker, arrested for “state treachery”, has been kept in custody for more than a month already: at first at the Minsk KGB prison, no in the Vitsebsk pre-trial prison #2.
06.12.2012 Salihorsk District Executive Committee ignores the rights of Belarusian-speaking citizens
The head of the Salihorsk District Executive Committee (CEC) Aliaksandr Rymasheuski did not satisfy the demand of the Salihorsk youth to create a Belarusian-language version of the official website of the executive committee does not contradict to requirements of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, according to which both Belarusian and Russian are the state languages of the Republic of Belarus.
06.12.2012 Dublin: HR activists remind about Ales Bialiatski
On 6 December activists of the human rights organization Front-Line Defenders held a picket in support of human rights defenders, dated to the opening of a session of the OSCE Council of Ministers.
06.12.2012 Pavel Sapelka: “The award belongs to those, who struggled beside me, upholding the understanding of the freedom and independence of legal profession”
These days, human rights lawyer Pavel Sapelka has been presented the prestigious Human Rights Award 2012, awarded to him by the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). CCBE unites about 1 million of European lawyers of Bars and Law Societies.
06.12.2012 Artist Ales Pushkin sentenced to 12 days of arrest
The artist was tried behind closed doors. The trial was conducted by Maryna Zapasnikava, a judge from the Leninski District Court of Minsk.
06.12.2012 Andrei Haidukou's friend gets summonsed to KGB
The leader of the unregistered Union of Young Intellectuals from Navapolatsk has been summoned to the Vitebsk KGB to give evidence in Andrei Haidukou's case.
06.12.2012 Police are looking for Aliaksandr Makayeu
In the evening on 4 December a policeman came to the apartment of the deputy chairman of the “Razam” movement Ales Makayeu.
05.12.2012 Mahiliou court: dismissed trade-union activist Aliaksei Paulouski not allowed to copy the materials of his case
The judge of the Leninski District Court of Mahiliou Yuliya Trapynina not allowed Aliaksei Paulouski to take photos of the materials of the court case against the Mahiliou house-building combine.
05.12.2012 Moscow: photographers get detained for a picket of solidarity with Belarusian colleagues
The police detained Russian photographers at a picket in support of their Belarusian colleagues this morning.
05.12.2012 Hrodna region: authorities continue haunting participants of insurgents' commemoration
The police continue looking for participants of the commemorative action in honor of the anti-Russian insurgents of 1863-1864, held on 27 October 2012 in the Svislach district.
05.12.2012 Artist Ales Pushkin gets detained
The artist Ales Pushkin has been detained in Minsk and taken to Minsk's Leninski District Police Department.
05.12.2012 Pushkin holds performance before appealing against his arrest
The artist Ales Pushkin appealed an earlier verdict of the Smarhon District Court at the Supreme Court of Belarus.
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