News for December 2014
10.12.2014 Military observer Aliaksandr Alesin released on bail
Mr. Alesin left the remand prison on Wednesday morning.
10.12.2014 Belarusian issues discussed in Lithuanian Seimas (photo)
On December 9, the eve of Human Rights Day, Vilnius hosted a discussion attended by Belarusian and Lithuanian human rights activists, community leaders and relatives of political prisoners, as well as a photo exhibition dedicated to the death penalty in Belarus.
09.12.2014 Overconfident investigator Skavarodkin: “Let him be afraid of me – I am from the Investigative Committee”
In a letter to his relatives a victim of tortures, prisoner Piatro Kuchura has told about his recent conversation with the investigator Skavarodkin. The latter visited the prisoner within the frames of another examination on the fact of his poisoning with bleach in Mahilioupenal colony No. 15.
09.12.2014 Mikhail Karnevich appeals a fine on Svislach case
December 3, Mikhail Karnevich filed an appeal with Hrodna Regional Court against the verdict of Judge of the Leninski District Court of HrodnaAlena Piatrova), which on November 25 fined him 2,250,000 rubles for allegedly "participating in an unsanctioned rally".
09.12.2014 Orsha activist points minister at popularization of neo-Nazis by STV channel
Orsha civil society activist Ihar Kazmerchak has appealed to the Minister of information Liliya Ananich asking for an assessment of the actions of responsible persons who put on the air of STV channel programs that popularize modern neo-Nazis.
09.12.2014 Uladzimir Prudnikau – sevenths fined in Svislach case
December 8, Svislach District Court fined a member of the United Civil Party Uladzimir Prudnikau 1.5 million roubles for taking part in the commemoration of the insurgents of 1863-1864 in Svislach on October 26, 2014.
09.12.2014 Winners of National Human Rights Community Award to Be Announced December 10
December 10, representatives of human rights organizations will call the names of the best human rights activist, lawyer and journalists dealing with human rights issues.
08.12.2014 Krychau: court partially grants ideologist's claim to “Volny Horad”
December 8, Judge of Krychau District Court Alena Azaranka ruled for recovering 7 million rubles from the founder of the newspaper “Volny Horad” Uladzimir Kudrautsau, its editor Siarhei Niarouny and journalist Mikalai Herdziy as a compensation of the moral damage, 450,000 rubles for the court fee and 3.6 million rubles for the lawyers services to the plaintiff, Maryna Maksimava.
08.12.2014 Homel authorities ban procession on Human Rights Day
Homel human rights defenders Anatol Paplauny and Leanid Sudalenka and the civil society activist Halina Bialova have received an answer from Homel City Executive Committee regarding their application for holding a procession on Human Rights Day, December 10.
08.12.2014 Amnesty International: “Your letter can change one's life” (video)
Drawing the example of the Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, who used to be a prisoner of conscience just several months ago, the Belgian branch of Amnesty International calls for participation in its Solidarity Marathon.
08.12.2014 Reporters Without Borders is concerned for the safety of Aliaksandr Alesin
Reporters Without Borders is concerned for the safety of the Belarus journalist, a military affairs specialist, who disappeared last month and is believed under arrest for alleged spying.
08.12.2014 Invitation to presentation of report on results of monitoring of penitentiary institutions
December 10, the International Human Rights Day, Human Rights Center "Viasna" presents an analytical study "Report on the results of monitoring penitentiary institutions in the Republic of Belarus".
08.12.2014 Andrei Haidukou arrested for 5 more days
December 5, a member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Andrei Haidukou was released from jail after ten-days' arrest. Then he was brought Navapolatsk City Court and sentenced to 5 more days of arrest under Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, “violation of the rules of organization and conduct of mass events”.
08.12.2014 Letters to political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich continue “disappearing”
This follows from Statkevich's letter to Bialynich journalist Barys Vyrvich, dated December 6. According to Barys Vyrvich, Mikalai Statkevich wrote him he hadn't received letters from the journalist several months already, as well as letters from other people.
08.12.2014 Mahiliou authorities don't regard fake complaint book as a crime
As it follows from an answer, given to a former worker of the Belsantekhmantazh Trust No. 1 (“Belarusian Sanitary Engineering Trust No. 1”) Aliaksandr Bykau by Chair of the Leninski District Executive Committee Laurynovich, the Leninski DEC doesn't think that the complaint book should be laced/
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