News for August 2013
22.08.2013 Supreme Court considers Homel courts incompetent
For nearly a year, from August 2012 to the present day, Mazyr human rights defender Uladzimir Tseliapun was seeking justice in the courts of Homel region to appeal a decision of Mazyr District Executive Committee "On Mass Events", arguing that the decision is not consistent with the law and violates the rights of citizens, the implementation of which are guaranteed by the Constitution.
22.08.2013 Criminal proceedings against Ales Mikhalevich will not stop until he returns to the country?
The Investigators gave a negative reply to the request of Ales Mikhalevich, in which the former presidential candidate and the KGB detention center inmate, asks for redemption of the criminal proceedings initiated against him. Mikhalevich to this day is a suspect in the investigation of the organization of “mass riots” in Minsk, December 19, 2010, as the government called a number of organized protests against rigged presidential election.
21.08.2013 GayBelarus leaders summoned for conversation to Office for Drug Control and Combating Trafficking in Person
On August 16, Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Project "GayBelarus" Maksim Dzmitryeu was summoned as a witness without specifying the administrative or criminal case to the Office for Drug Control and Combating Trafficking in Persons of the criminal police. The "conversation," as the representative of the "Belarusian Helsinki Committee", was attended by human rights activist Natalia Mankouskaya.
21.08.2013 Pavel Sapelka on preventive supervision: "It is not the crime that is punished, but the reluctance to demonstrate loyalty to police requirements"
For jurisprudence, of prime significance is the challenge of providing post-penitentiary adaptation of convicts and preventing repeated crimes. In the absence of a consistent government policy for the re-socialization and social integration of those who are released after serving their sentence in prison, they face social and psychological degradation, resulting in possible increase in repeated crimes.
21.08.2013 BAJ Asks State Bodies about Guidelines on Providing Information to Journalists
The press service of BAJ has recently conducted individual surveys among its members about how difficult it is to obtain information from a number of state agencies.
21.08.2013 Supreme Court upholds registration denial for United Civic Party’s youth wing
The Supreme Court of Belarus on Wednesday upheld the justice ministry's decision to deny state registration to the United Civic Party (UCP)’s youth wing called Maladyya Demakraty (Young Democrats).
21.08.2013 Ales Bialiatski allowed short meeting with family
The imprisoned leader of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski was visited today by his wife Natallia Pinchuk and sister Volha in the Babruisk-based penal colony No. 2.
21.08.2013 Department of Corrections afraid of publicity?
The Department of Corrections of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus did not allow an independent journalist in Vitsebsk region to visit the penitentiary system facilities. An application for this kind of inspection was lodged with the Department by a Vitsebsk member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, Kanstantsin Mardvintsau.
21.08.2013 Authorities refuse to register association "Brest Christian Democrats"
A reply from the main department of Justice of Brest Regional Executive Committee suggests that the reason for the denial is that the names of the organization in Russian and Belarusian are different.
20.08.2013 Statement by the Human Rights Center "Viasna" on the sentencing of Uladzimir Yaromenak
The sentencing of Uladzimir Yaromenak is an obvious factor that indicates a worsening of the human rights situation in the country and highlights the ongoing negative trend of recent months in this area.
20.08.2013 Film "Six Arguments against the Death Penalty" presented online
The first film in the series "Six Arguments against the Death Penalty" appeared on the Internet today. Human rights activists and public figures, defendants and their families stress the shortcomings of the judicial system, the existence of torture in Belarusian prisons, lack of preventive effect of the death penalty. They call on the government to abandon capital punishment.
20.08.2013 BelaPAN freelance journalist detained in Mahiliou
Ales Asiptsou, a freelance reporter for the BelaPAN independent news agency, was briefly detained this morning outside the entrance to the Mahilioukhimvalakno state-owned enterprise.
20.08.2013 Website alexievich.info Blocked in Belarus
For more than 10 days the website of the Belarusian writer Sviatlana Alexievich is not accessible in Belarus.
20.08.2013 Former political prisoner Uladzimir Yaromenak sentenced to 3 months of arrest
Uladzimir Yaromenak, activist of the Young Front opposition movement and former political prisoner, was sentenced to three months of arrest on charges of violating preventive supervision restrictions. The verdict was pronounced this morning by Judge Leanid Yarmolenkau of Minsk Pershamaiski District Court.
20.08.2013 Salihorsk human rights defender keeps opposing illegal travel ban threats
In a dispute between the local representative of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, Leanid Markhotka, and the Communal Unitary Enterprise "Cash Settlements Centre of the City of Salihorsk" the Prosecutor's Office of Minsk region sided with the state-owned enterprise.
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