News for August 2013
14.08.2013 Open appeal
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" urges the Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) to disclose information about the grounds for the detention of priest Uladzislau Lazar, as well as the essence of the charge he is facing.
14.08.2013 Vitsebsk police detain campaigner for People’s Referendum initiative
Andrei Andreyeu, activist of the People’s Referendum initiative, was detained by the police in Vitsebsk yesterday evening while distributing leaflets advertising the campaign.
13.08.2013 Belarusian Christian Democracy applies to the prosecutor's office on priest Lazar's case
The co-chairman of the organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy" Vital Rymashevski and its executive secretary Dzianis Sadouski filed to the Office of the Prosecutor General a collective appeal in the case of the Catholic priest of the parish of the Holy Spirit in Barysau, Uladzislau Lazar.
13.08.2013 Members of the Hrodna Council are required to regularly report to their electors
Representatives of a number of Hrodna NGOs and parties are trying to make members of the Hrodna Council implement the law and regularly report to their electors.
13.08.2013 Birthday greetings not passed to political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich
Today, 12 August, is the birthday of the political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich. As his wife, Maryna Adamovich, stated to Radio “Liberty”, the administration of the Mahiliou prison No.4 doesn't pass him many postcards with greetings.
13.08.2013 Bialynichy: administrative case against Valery Vusik to be re-considered
Valery Vusik, a social activist from the village of Lebiadziank in the Bialynichy district, received a summons to the Bialynichy District Court as a defendant in the administrative case. The hearing will start at 11 a.m. on 16 August.
13.08.2013 Prosecutor's office issues an instruction to the head of the Rechytsa Council
Rechytsa District Prosecutor's Office issued an instruction to the head of the Rechytsa District Council of Deputies Mikhail Bayaryn on elimination of violations of the Law “On Applications of Citizens and Legal Entities”. This was reported by an activist of "Tell the Truth!" Aleh Shabetnik.
13.08.2013 Prosecutor's office refuses to react to a collective appeal on the Milavidy festival
Human rights activist Siarhei Housha received a letter signed by the acting Baranavichy inter-district prosecutor P. Navitski, in which it is stated that the collective appeal of citizens in the case of the Milavidy festival was returned to the applicants!!
13.08.2013 Authorities are afraid to admit human rights defenders to the Salihorsk detention center
According to the human rights defender Leanid Markhotka, the Head of the Salihorsk District Police Department Aliaksandr Astreika did not allow representatives of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee to visit the local detention isolator!
13.08.2013 “Gray Book” of Vitsebsk human rights defenders
These days the “Gray Book” of Vitsebsk human rights defenders, featuring a chronicle of human rights violations in the Vitsebsk from July 2012 to June 2013, has been published. The volume of the book is 120 pages.
13.08.2013 Justice Bureau admits that Vitsebsk judges overstep the law
The appeals of the human rights defender Pavel Levinau to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus were considered at a working meeting of the main justice bureau of the Vitsebsk Regional Executive Committee.
12.08.2013 Political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich placed in penal cell again
The activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Yauhen Vaskovich served another ten-day term in the penal cell in the Mahiliou prison No. 4.
12.08.2013 Mahiliou authorities ban a picket against the Russian military base in Belarus
On 12 August the head of the Mahiliou regional branch of the United Civil Party Uladzimir Shantsau received a response from the Mahiliou Regional Executive Committee, by which he was denied in holding a rally and a procession.
12.08.2013 Svetlahorsk: picket is banned because of sportive-cultural event
According to the head of the Svetlahorsk district organization of the Belarusian Leftist Party “Fair World” Siarhei Daineka, Svetlahorsk District Executive Committee didn't allow members of the party to hold a picket in the recreation and leisure park on 10 August.
12.08.2013 Uladzimir Labkovich and Tatsiana Reviaka appeal their fines at the Minsk City Court
The human rights activists appealed against the verdict of the Savetski District Court, according to which they were found guilty of violating Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Violations and fined 3 million rubles each.
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