18.09.2013 Prison authorities keep harassing Mikalai Autukhovich
Mikalai Autukhovich learned on September 4 that prison supervisors charged him with violation of the internal regulations of the correctional institution, just one month ahead of the expected lifting of all penalties from him. Meanwhile, the political prisoner says he strictly observes the prison rules.
18.09.2013 Echo of business strikes in Baranavichy: activist receives prosecutor’s warning
Activist Mikalai Charnavus was summoned yesterday to Baranavichy District Prosecutor's Office to receive an official warning for organizing of unsanctioned rallies by Baranavichy entrepreneurs on June 27 at the local cooperative market and in front of the city executive committee building.
18.09.2013 Bialynichy court rules in favor of distributor of independent weekly
Bialynichy district court continued yesterday the consideration of an administrative case against a resident of the village of Lebiadzianka, Valery Vusik. As a result, Judge Aksana Zahorskaya ruled to dismiss the case, rejecting the presented police reports.
18.09.2013 European Parliament announced Sakharov prize nominees
Members of the European Parliament announced seven candidates for the Sakharov prize at a joint session of the Parliament’s foreign affairs committee and the human rights sub-committee.
17.09.2013 Lithuania’s MFA: Release of political prisoners is paramount
Lithuania hopes for improvement of EU-Belarus relations.
17.09.2013 Supreme Court confirms death verdict for Pavel Sialiun
The Supreme Court dismissed today an appeal against the death sentence handed down on June 12 by the Hrodna Regional Court to Pavel Sialiun, who found guilty of committing four criminal offences, including double murder, theft and desecration of corpses.
17.09.2013 Ihar Ptichkin was beaten by riot control group
Some details about the death of a Valadarka prison inmate became known.
17.09.2013 Homel human rights defender demands compensation for four illegal administrative penalties
Homel human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka filed a lawsuit to Tsentralny District Court to demand moral damages in the amount of 29 million rubles from head of the Chief Finance Department of Homel region. He also asks to recover court fees and the administrative penalty of 600,000 rubles.
17.09.2013 Mahiliou Regional Court rejects appeal of BSDP activist Mikalai Zalozny
Mahiliou Regional Court considered yesterday an appeal of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) and its activist Mikalai Zalozny lodged to contest an earlier ruling by Leninski District Court of Mahiliou of 31 May, 2013 on a statement made by head of the city’s dormitory system, Pavel Shyshou, who named the party a “gang” in his interview to the BelaPAN news agency.
16.09.2013 Viktar Hanchar and Anatol Krasouski kidnapped 14 years ago
The guilty of kidnapping of the oppositionists haven’t been punished in spite of proofs and evidences.
16.09.2013 Yaromenak and Parfiankou arrested for five days
Uladzimir Yaromenak and Vasil Parfiankou have been serving administrative detention since September 16, after Judge Yury Harbatouski of Minsk’s Pershamaiski District Court sentenced the activists to for five days of arrest on charges of disobeying the terms of preventive supervision (Article 24.12 of the Administrative Code).
16.09.2013 Minsk court convicts participants of memorial protest
The Court of Minsk’s Tsentralny district heard today the charges brought against five participants of a protest staged on Saturday outside the detention center in Valadarski Street, where a prisoner named Ihar Ptsichkin died earlier this summer.
16.09.2013 Expert labels Ales Bialiatski’s book as dangerous for State
Ales Bialiatski’s book "Enlightened by Belarusianness" ("Asvechanyia Belaruschunai") “could damage the image of the Republic of Belarus”, say the results of an expert examination ordered by Ashmiany customs department. 40 copies of the book were confiscated from human rights defender Tatsiana Reviaka on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border on July 3 this year.
16.09.2013 Baranavichy authorities ban anti-impoverishment picket
Baranavichy city executive committee banned a picket aimed to protest against the decreasing incomes of families raising children. The picket was applied for by local independent trade union activist Ryhor Hryk.
16.09.2013 Gay rights activist taken off train, searched by customs officers
A gay rights activist was ordered by Belarusian customs officers off a Minsk-bound train and searched at the Ukrainian border in the morning of September 14.
