News for March 2013
15.03.2013 Constitution Day action in Homel held under vigilant supervision of police
On 15 March Homel oppositionists held an action in honor of the Constitution Day. They went to the stops of the public transport with copies of the Constitution of 1994 and the newspaper "Narodnaya Volia" (as a symbol of free press).
15.03.2013 Members of Brest City Council are urged to publish their contact information for electors
The heads of Brest branches of political parties and civil associations filed an appropriate appeal to the head of Brest City Council Henadz Masko.
15.03.2013 Mahiliou police prevent "Young Christian Democrats" from holding street action
The activists intended to hand out copies of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus with a posted photo of Aliaksandr Lukashenka, swearing on the Constitution under a white-red-white flag in 1994.
15.03.2013 Siarhei Housha managed to get his cassation appeal considered after five months
On 14 March Baranavichy human rights defender Siarhei Housha received by mail a ruling of the head of the Supreme Court of Belarus Valiantsin Sukala abolishing the refusal of a judge of Brest Region Court (dated 4 October 2012) to consider his cassation appeal due to the alleged expiry of the terms of consideration.
15.03.2013 Vitsebsk dwellers demand publicity in "budget issue"
Aliaksandr Mikulin, an activist of 'Tell the Truth", and Anatol Hneuka, the head of Vitsebsk regional branch of the National organization of victims of accident at Chernobyl NPP, veteran of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) filed a letter to Vitsebsk City Council and Vitsebsk City Executive Committee, asking to publish information about the city budget for 2013 and distribution of the budget means at the website of the executive committee.
14.03.2013 Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in February 2013
Though the situation of human rights remained stably bad in February, an important event concerning the situation of political prisoners took place – On 9 February Vasil Parfiankou, a figurant of the "case of 19 December 2010", pardoned in 2011 and convicted in 2012 for violation of the conditions of preventive supervision, was released from the arrest house due to the end of the six-month arrest term. However, this fact brought no changes for the overall situation of political prisoners, as it could by no means be considered as a manifestation of change in the attitude of the Belarusian authorities to political prisoners. 11 prisoners of conscience are still kept in Belarusian prisons.
14.03.2013 Klimavichy District Executive Committee refuses to authorize Freedom Day picket
Klimavichy activists of "Tell the Truth" received an answer from Klimavichy DEC to their application for holding a picket at the city market, dated to the Freedom Day, 25 March.
14.03.2013 Insurmountable "barrier-free space"
The issue of the improvement of the barrier-free environment in Babruisk is a daily one for wheelchair disabled.
14.03.2013 Homel: wooden buildings still dismantled despite prohibition of Ministry of Culture
The unique wooden buildings of the 19-20th century in Volvatauskaya Street are still dismantled
14.03.2013 Nasta Dashkevich reports about delays in mail correspondence with her husband
According to Nasta Dashkevich, wife of political prisoner and "Young Front" leader Zmitser Dashkevich, letters from Dashkevich reach other people for ten days, whereas the normal pace is just four. Mr. Dashkevich is serving a prison term in Hrodna cell-type facility.
14.03.2013 "ARCHE" gets third registration denial
This was reported to European Radio for Belarus by the acting chief editor of the magazine, Ales Pashkevich.
13.03.2013 A year has passed since the execution of Kanavalau and Kavaliou: human rights defenders put new questions
The first anniversary of the execution of Uladzislau Kavaliou and Dzmitry Kanavalau, sentenced to death on charges of terrorism, is being marked this days. Pitifully enough, the exact date of the execution remains unknown: it is only known that it was conducted on 11-15 March.
13.03.2013 Presentation of historical book banned in Zelva
The presentation of the book "By the local history paths of Zelva area" by Siarhei Chyhryn was to have taken place at Zelva district library on 15 March. It is the first such detailed book concerning the history and local core studies of Zelva and the surrounding areas. The author tells interesting details about famous people of Zelva region, the events which took place there for the last 200 years and his talented contemporaries living there.
13.03.2013 BCD Youth holds memorial event in honor of missing politicians
Young Christian Democrats invite all interested persons to the memorial event "We Won't Forget!", dedicated to the memory of the missing politicians and journalists: Viktar Hanchar, Anatol Krasouski, Yury Zakharanka and Dzmitry Zavadski, and politician Henadz Karpenka who died in strange circumstances.
13.03.2013 People send letters and postcards of support to Liubou Kavaliova
In the middle of March there turned a year since the execution of death convicts Uladzislau Kavaliou and Dzmitry Kanavalau. These days Uladzislau's mother Liudmila Kavaliova has received many letters and postcards from the people who don't believe her son is guilty and think that the trial was unfair and the verdict to the Vitsebsk boys was groundlessly severe.
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