UN Human Rights Committee accepts for consideration a complaint by Valery Rybchanka
Human
Rights Committee of the
UN has registered a communication of the head
of the Zhlobin district organization of the “Fair World” Party
Valery Rybchanka concerning his unlawful arrest in
July 2011.
“The communication
concerns my detention during the distribution
of information materials 3 July 2011, after which the
Zhlobin District Court sentenced me to 15 days
of arrest, said the activist. “I passed all
court instances in Belarus and then decided to
apply to the Human Rights Committee of the UN.”
The
communication and the comments on it were submitted in March 2012 and
January 2013, but were registered by the Human Rights Committee only
now, under the numbers 2266 and 2013.
Earlier,
the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations has registered a
complaint by the Zhlobin members of the “Fair
World” concerning the ban on pickets in
2012, issued by the Zhlobin District Executive
Committee. The Committee also required more detailed comments on
another one, concerning th erigging of the
presidential elections in 2010 and the appeals
of the activists to
various state organs in this regard.
