News for August 2014
06.08.2014 Situation in Crimea can be changed only by strong civil society
Chairman of the Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights Andrey Yurov believes that is necessary to strengthen civil society organizations in the Crimea, as civil liberties will be curtailed within a year to the extent it has been done in Russia for 15 years.
06.08.2014 Biaroza: letters of solidarity with political prisoners
Biaroza human rights defenders and social activists have sent letters to all seven political prisoners in order to express their solidarity and support.
05.08.2014 Lukashenka awards order to policeman who kicked journalist
Lukashenka has given medals, orders and ranks of popular and honoured – to a few dozen people.
05.08.2014 Members of Brest City Council are required to inform about time and place of meetings with electors
Activists of the civil initiative "Social Office" have filed a repeated appeal to five members of the Brest City Council and the head of this representative body, Mikalai Krasouski.
05.08.2014 Brest: Social Democrats appeal actions of executive committee complain to prosecutor and State Control Committee
The reason for the appeal was the information that the Brest Regional Executive Committee lent a ten-kilomenter part of the river of Mukhavets from the Border of Brest to the border with the Zhabinka district.
05.08.2014 Individual communication on behalf of Eduard Lobau filed to UN Human Rights Committee
This was reported to Human Rights Center “Viasna” by the head of Belarusian DocumentationCenter Raisa Mikhailouskaya.
04.08.2014 Law and order Dubrouna style
Former prisoner Viktar Buhayou, who lives and works in the town of Dubrouna in the Vitsebsk region, has again appealed to the Human Rights Center "Viasna".
04.08.2014 “Viasna” activists banned from holding August 4 pickets in ten cities
Applications for pickets for release of political prisoners, filed by human rights activists within the framework of the Day of Solidarity with Belarusian civil society, were turned down by the local authorities in Navapolatsk, Vitsebsk, Homel, Mozyr, Rechytsa, Zhodzina, Barysau, Baranavichy, Smarhon and Mahiliou.
04.08.2014 Brest: organizers of July 1 picket required to pay more money for medical transport on duty
The picket, dedicated to the International Children's Day, was allowed by the authorities and was held at the site in the park of soldiers-internationalists in Brest.
04.08.2014 Vitsebsk residents demand Ukrainian TV channel “Inter +” be returned to airplay on cable TV
Ukrianian TV channel "Inter +" was watched by cable television owners. Recently, provider of Vitsebsk Regional Technical Trade Centerhas stopped broadcasting this single Ukrainian TV channel, available on cable networks. Instead of "Inter +", Vitsebsk residents are now proposed to watch the Russian TV channel "Sarafan".
04.08.2014 Criminal case brought against civil society activist Yury Rubtsou
A criminal case has been opened against Homel activist Yury Rubtsou for “insulting a judge”. Yury Rubtsou wrote in a Facebook post: “An investigator from the Investigation Committee has just notified me that a criminal case was opened against me either for insulting or for threatening a judge.”
04.08.2014 Posters against police violence appear in Svetlahorsk
August 2, Svetlahorsk activists of the anarchist movement held an action against police brutality.
04.08.2014 Azerbaijan: arrests of human rights activists continue
Rasul Jafarov, founder and chairman of the Human Rights Club Rasul Jafarov, was arrested in Baku on August 2.
04.08.2014 Ales Bialiatski urges people to remain optimistic and support civil society in Belarus
August 4, the International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society and Human Rights Movement in Belarus, timed to the anniversary of the arrest of a recent political prisoner human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, is held in different countries of the world.
04.08.2014 Temperature at Shklovalakno factory +40°С
Workers of Polatsk-Shklovalakno factory, a manufacturer of glass fiber, have to work in extreme conditions.
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