News for November 2014
11.11.2014 Svetlahorsk activist complains to prosecutor's office about setting fire to his mailbox by unidentified persons
Svetlahorsk social activist Yury Liashenka has filed an application to the prosecutor's office requesting to check some facts of illegal actions of unidentified citizens. In the night of 4-5 November, they set his mailbox on fire. “I called the police, and during a conversation I remembered that in August, when I r
10.11.2014 Babruisk hunger-strikers, questioned at police department, declare indefinite hunger-strike
“At present, about 20 people are ready to join the hunger strike. Tomorrow they are going to write an appeal addressed to the local officials and submit it to the executive committee. We haven't received any response from the city authorities so far,” added the head of the primary unit of the FTUB.
10.11.2014 Fired for upholding struggle against «shadow accountancy»
The contract system of employment deprived employees of both state and private enterprises of their rights. In particular, the head of the private enterprise “Trans-Line-Brest” Aliaksandr Tsyhanchuk dismissed two truckers who carried cargoes abroad and had long labour records without any penalties.
10.11.2014 Dzetsiuki band get detained by riot police while shooting clip
8 November in Zaslauye, all members of the rock band Dzetsiuki and the shooting crew were detained while shooting a video clip for the song «Khloptsy-balakhoutsy» («Balakhovich's Guerillas») from the album «Haradzenski Harmidar» («Hrodna Mess»). All in all, 18 people were detained.
07.11.2014 Vitsebsk authorities ban picket dated to anniversary of October revolution
Members of the Conservative Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front Piatro Sarapenia and Yan Dziarzhautsau wanted to conduct their event on November 7 in order to inform the citizens about the consequences of the October coup d'etat and the need to ban the Communist Party of Belarus and its ideology.
07.11.2014 Babruisk: fired members of Free Trade Union continue hunger-strike near the plant administration
Four retired members of the Free Trade Union of Belarus, fired from the Tractor Details and Aggregates Plant, continue hungering for the second day already.
07.11.2014 Case of Piatro Kuchura proves low professional level of employees of Investigations Committee
The refusal to initiate a criminal investigation into the torture of the convict of the penal colony N. 15 Piatro Kuchura with chlorine has been abolished by the prosecutor's office. This is the fourth ruling of the notorious investigator Skavarodkin, abolished by the prosecutor's office.
06.11.2014 Mikhail Arshynski: «The compensation for father's death looks ridiculous»
Mahiliou journalist is outraged by the decision of the Leninski district court of Mahiliou on the amount of compensation for the death of his father in an accident, which occurred in February 2010.
06.11.2014 Bialiatski: “Tonkacheva has been expelled from the country for three years, I had been thrown in prison for three years”
Chairman of the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" commented to RFE/RL the decision of the Belarusian authorities on the expulsion of the human rights activist Yelena Tonkacheva without the right to return to Belarus for three years.
06.11.2014 Yelena Tonkacheva: “All that happened yesterday at Pershamaiski DPD in Minsk seems to be a planned farce”
Press conference of the chairperson of the board of the Center for Legal Transformation «Lawtrend» Yelena Tonkacheva, which took place on November 6 at the office of HRC "Viasna", barely accommodated all journalists, human rights activists and public figures.
06.11.2014 Action of solidarity with journalists in Brest
Journalists from Brest held a picket of solidarity with freelance journalists who face prosecution for working without accreditation.
05.11.2014 Yelena Tonkacheva expelled from Belarus for three years
November 5, Division for Citizenship and Migration of the Pershamaiski District Police Department of Minsk considered the question of the expulsion from Belarus of Chair of the Board of the Center for Legal Transformation Yelena Tonkacheva, whose residence permit in Belarus had been annulled.
05.11.2014 Hrodna Regional Court dismisses appeal against registration denial to “Spadchyna”
November 4, Hrodna Regional Court dismissed the appeals of the founders of the public cultural and educational association “Spadchyna” ("Heritage") against the decision of Hrodna City Justice Department not to register the organization.
05.11.2014 Hunger-strikers from Free Trade Union of Belarus are rudely expelled from Babruisk City Executive Committee
At 10 a.m. on November 5, the members of the Free Trade Union of Belarus who have been dismissed from the Tractor Details and Aggregates Plant, Aliaksandr Hramyka, Aleh Shauchenka, Aliaksandr Varankin and Mikalai Zhybul, declared a hunger-strike in the building of the Babruisk City Executive Committee. The
04.11.2014 UN is requested to take urgent measures in connection with the possible expulsion of Yelena Tonkacheva
Belarusian human rights organizations appealed to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, as well as to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarus with a request to urgently intervene.
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