08.05.2013 Journalist Hruzdzilovich issued with official warning
Aleh Hruzdzilovich received an official warning, singed by the first deputy prosecutor of Minsk Ramanouski, concerning the article "Who blasted Minsk metro?"
08.05.2013 Teacher persuades pupils not to take exams in Belarusian
A conflict with school-leavers took place in secondary school #4 in Ivatsevichy. In one of the forms, more than a half of pupils chose the Belarusian language as a final exam.
08.05.2013 Two Vitsebsk activists to be tried for protest against construction of Nuclear Power Plant
A member of the Conservative-Christian Party "Belarusian Popular Front" Vital Kavalenka was charged with violating the Law on Mass Events. A week ago similar charges were given to his alley Yan Dziarzhautsau.
08.05.2013 Salihorsk Court dismisses appeal against Freedom Day picket ban
Salihorsk District Court didn't grant the appeal of civic activist Uladzimir Shyla against the ban of the picket he intended to hold on Freedom Day, 25 March. The trial was lead by the deputy-head of the court Ala Trafimchuk.
08.05.2013 Anzhalika Kambalava detained and fined for picket in memory of Zakharanka
On 7 May in Baranavichy an activist of the United Civil Party Anzhalika Kambalava was detained for holding a picket to remind the people about the missing ex-Minister of Interior, Yury Zakharanka.
08.05.2013 Journalists Halko and Yarashevich sentenced to arrest
In the evening of 6 May Aliaksandr Yarashevich, a journalist of the Belarusian service of Radio "Racyja", and blogger Dzmitry Halko were detained near the metro station "Mikhalova". At about 8.40 p.m. a bus with riot policemen stopped near them, the guys were pulled into a car and taken to Maskouski District Police Department in Minsk.
07.05.2013 "Blanket full of lice" – youth activists tell about conditions in detention center in Akrestsin Street
On 6 May 2013 Dzmitry Charniak, Aliaksandr Tarnahurski ("European Belarus") and anarchist Ihar Trukhanovich were released from jail.
07.05.2013 Volha Haidukova not allowed to see her son
Aleh Barysevich, an investigator of Vitsebsk KGB Department, refused to allow Volha Haidukova to visit her son, 24-year-old Navapolatsk resident Andrei Haidukou, charged with high treason and kept in the remand prison of the KGB.
07.05.2013 Brest Regional Court turns down appeal of independent journalist
Milana Kharytonava, a photo correspondent of "Brestskiy Kuryer", appealed against the verdict of Maskouski District Court of Brest concerning the insult of her honor, dignity and business reputation.
06.05.2013 UN Rapporteur Miklos Haraszti publishes a report on Belarus
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti, has published his first report on the situation of human rights in the country. The document was prepared under the mandate approved by the UN Council on Human Rights, and presented at the Council on 18 April.
06.05.2013 List of non-profit organizations with rent preferences shortened more than twice
Interestingly, compared with the previous list, the number of political parties, which had rent benefits, decreased: benefits were left to the Communist Party and the Republican Party of Labor and Justice, whereas the Belarusian Social and Sportive Party, the Belarusian Patriotic Party and the Agrarian Party of Belarus were denied benefits.
06.05.2013 Former head of Sochi health resort "Belarus" has been kept in KGB remand prison for more than 4 months already
He is charged with a large-scale theft by abuse of his office powers.
06.05.2013 Bialynichy: all appeals of families with many children are returned to Byalynichy District Executive Committee
In the beginning of May families with many children residing in Byalynichy started getting answers from various state institutions to their collective addresses and complaints about violations of the rights of families with many children during the construction of a dwelling house. As it follows from the answers, all addresses were forwarded to Byalynichy District Executive Committee, whose actions were appealed in the addresses.
06.05.2013 Belarus holds second place in Europe in the number of prisoners
As stated in an appropriate report of the Council of Europe, almost a half of European prisons are overcrowded. The greatest percentage of arrested was registered in Russia, then come Belarus, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
06.05.2013 Journalists Barbarych and Yarashevich appeal court verdicts
The independent journalists informed the Belarusian Association of Journalists about filing appeals against their arrest with Minsk City Court.
