News for August 2014
22.08.2014 “Have you ever wondered how much sorrow has the twenty years of your office brought to the citizens of this country?”
Liudmila Kuchura has sent her petition to Aliaksandr Lukashenka to congratulate him on the 20th anniversary of his presidency, recalling that, thanks to his “parental care”, her husband Piotr Kuchura has already served ten years for a crime he did not commit.
22.08.2014 Minsk City Court dismisses appeal by Kurapaty campaigners
The Minsk City Court has dismissed an appeal by a group of activists campaigning for the preservation of the Kurapaty memorial, Radio Racyja reports. The City Court thus upheld the decision of the Tsentralny District Court. The authors tried to force the Prosecutor General's Office to implement its earlier order to remove all objects that were illegally built in the territory of the Stalin repressions memorial.
22.08.2014 Report on discrimination and inequality in Belarus detained at border
Report prepared by the Equal Rights Trust and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee has been detained at the border and is awaiting an examination by the Department of Smuggling. Meanwhile, human rights activists have received a letter from the Office of the President saying that the information contained in the report has been “taken into consideration”.
21.08.2014 Girl films officials stealing cabbages, gets beaten
The girl was taken to hospital with a double arm fracture, brain concussion and other injuries, nn.by reports referring to human rights defender Tatstsyana Ravyaka.
21.08.2014 Former candidate complains to UN about absence of justice
Mikalai Novikau, activist of the United Civil Party and former candidate for the Homel Regional Council, has not been able to sue the JSC “Palesdruk”, which refused to print his campaign flyers during the last local elections. The UCP activist is now seeking to protect his rights in the UN Human Rights Committee, where he has submitted a personal complaint.
21.08.2014 Police justify discrimination against Roma in media by crime prevention
On August 20, Homel human rights defenders Ales Yauseyenka and Maryia Klimovich received a reply to their complaint submitted to the police department of the Homel regional executive committee about the discrimination of Roma in the media.
21.08.2014 Police side with attacker in Homel incident
The Tsentralny district police department of Homel issued another refusal to initiate a criminal investigation into the attack on the house of local opposition activist Kanstantsin Zhukouski. On May 2, his private house was attacked by unknown persons, who were apparently outraged by a Ukrainian flag hoisted on the roof as a sign of solidarity with the neighboring country.
20.08.2014 Death convict’s mother receives son’s belongings
On August 20, Tamara Sialiun, mother of death convict Pavel Sialiun, who was executed in April for a double murder, picked up her dead son’s things at the Hrodna Regional Court. There, she was given a few dozen tapes, CDs, LPs, mobile phones and other items that belonged to Pavel.
20.08.2014 Prison not over for Mikalai Autukhovich
Vaukavysk District Prosecutor says there are no violations in the police-steered travel ban for former political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich, who asked to leave his home town to be treated in Minsk. In this regard, Autukhovich prepared a complaint to the Prosecutor of the Hrodna region.
20.08.2014 Journalists’ safety remains biggest media freedom challenge in Ukraine, says OSCE representative
VIENNA, 20 August 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today denounced recent attacks on members of the media in different regions of Ukraine.
20.08.2014 Congratulate Mikalai Dziadok on his birthday!
On Saturday, August 23, political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok, who is serving a prison sentence in Mahiliou prison No. 4, will turn 26 years old, of which almost four years he has spent behind bars. You can send Mikalai a birthday card or a telegram with words of support and warm wishes to the address: 212011, Mahiliou, Krupskoi 99a, prison No. 4.
20.08.2014 European ruling: Russia court cages violate rights
A European court on Thursday ordered Russia to pay damages for putting defendants in metal cages in court, a practice it condemned as "degrading treatment." The enclosures have held opposition figures, Greenpeace activists and untold numbers of less-prominent suspects across the country.
20.08.2014 Mikhail Kukabaka: History rewritten under dictation of another vozhd Putin
Mikhail Kukabaka, former inmate of Soviet labor camps, shared with Viasna his opinion about the destruction of the only museum to the victims of repression “Perm-36”.
20.08.2014 Mikhail Miakhedka: “No fear of looneybin, but would not want to get there again, I am nobody and nothing there”
A resident of Minsk Mikhail Miakhedka, who for nearly six years has been trying to restore justice, going through numerous judicial and legislative authorities, suddenly found himself in the Republican Center for Mental Health located in Minsk’s Navinki district. It happened on August 6 after he tried to pass his petition to the Presidential Administration.
20.08.2014 Andrzej Poczobut: A battle is carried out against mass media working from abroad
The Belarusian authorities do not stop their struggle against independent mass media.
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