News for 14 May 2015

Chairman of the village council considers  beautification of mass grave “inexpedient”

14.05.2015 Chairman of the village council considers beautification of mass grave “inexpedient”

Vitciebsk activists were invited to a meeting, which took place in the forest near the village of Hajsy. Excavated human remains are lying there in large pits. The activists have been demanding exhumation, examination and properly reburial of the unidentified persons for six months already.

Mikhail Hladki has another chance to get compensation for 5 years in prison

14.05.2015 Mikhail Hladki has another chance to get compensation for 5 years in prison

Mikhail Hladki filed a supervisory appeal to Chair of the Minsk regional Court. There he expresses disagreement with the rulings of the Minsk District and Minsk Regional Court by which he is denied material and moral compensation for wrongful conviction under Part 1 st.139 Criminal Code, "murder".

Mikalai Statkevich’s wife received first letter from Mahilyou prison

14.05.2015 Mikalai Statkevich’s wife received first letter from Mahilyou prison

Maryna Adamovich, the wife of the political prisoner and a former candidate for presidency, has received the first letter from Mahilioŭ prison №4.

Lawyer Pavel Sapelka: State has replaced the system of parole with giveaway amnesties

14.05.2015 Lawyer Pavel Sapelka: State has replaced the system of parole with giveaway amnesties

May 13 The House of Representatives of the National Assembly adopted in the first and second reading a bill on amnesty in connection with the 70th anniversary of the Victory. According to the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihar Shunevich if the amnesty law comes into force, it will concern some 8,600 convicts, 2.2 thousand which will be released from prison. Will there be political prisoners among them?

Leanid Sudalenka is questioned as a witness in the case of pornography distribution

14.05.2015 Leanid Sudalenka is questioned as a witness in the case of pornography distribution

May 13 the HomieÍ regional department of the Investigative Committee questioned human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka, Chairman of the HomieÍ branch of the NGO "Legal Initiative" as a witness in the criminal case.

Svietlahorsk District Court justifies medics who injected unknown substances to handicapped civil society activist

14.05.2015 Svietlahorsk District Court justifies medics who injected unknown substances to handicapped civil society activist

May 13, Svietlahorsk District Court finished hearing the civil case instigated on a lawsuit of wheel-chair user, civil society activist Yury Liashenka against ambulance medics. The plaintiff asked to find illegal the actions of the medics who had detained him at his one-man picket, driven him to the hospital and given injections of unknown substances.

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