News on the topic: statement
30.09.2011 EU leaders issue declaration condemning Belarus for its "deteriorating" human rights record
The leaders of the European Union’s member countries issued a declaration condemning Belarus for its "deteriorating" record on human rights and rule of law as a result of the September 29-30 EU Eastern Partnership summit in Warsaw after the delegations of five post-Soviet nations participating in the Eastern Partnership – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine – had spoken out against including a paragraph to this effect in the summit’s joint declaration.
27.09.2011 NGOs’ Assembly: Release of political prisoners is first step towards possible dialogue
The working group of the Assembly of Pro-Democratic NGOs of Belarus has adopted two statements concerning the possible dialogue of the authorities with society and the prospects of the EU-Belarus relations within the European Partnership programme.
23.09.2011 Viasna demands to stop harassment of Sannikau and Dashkevich
The Human Rights Center “Viasna” expresses its concern over the transfers of political prisoners Andrei Sannikau and Zmitser Dashkevich.
08.09.2011 Statement of HRC Viasna about conditions for dialogue with Belarusian authorities
If there are political prisoners, a dialogue is impossible. There is a great risk of taking new political hostages by the authorities if the political system is not transformed.
23.08.2011 Swedish MEP urges to release Ales Bialiatski
MEP Olle Schmidt, representing the Liberal Party of Sweden, has addressed the Belarusian Prosecutor General with an open letter, concerning the recent case detention of Mr Ales Bialiatski.
18.08.2011 Solidranosc founders: Bialiatski is the Polish government’s prisoner of conscience
“We will not allow the country of uprisings and conspiracy, the country of democratic opposition and Solidarnosc through the ignorance of a government body throwing into prison the people who are fighting for freedom”, says an open letter by six co-founders of the Solidarnosc Polish independent trade union, as quoted by the Gazeta Wyborcza major newspaper.
15.08.2011 Azerbaijan civil society demands to release Bialiatski
Representatives of 23 Azerbaijani civil society groups have addressed Belarusian President Lukashenka with an open letter demanding to get the criminal case of Ales Bialiatski under his personal control and take every measure possible to promptly release the prominent Belarusian human rights defender.
12.08.2011 FIDH President addresses Lithuanian Prime Minister on Bialiatski's case
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), condemns the ongoing arbitrary detention of Mr. Ales Bialatski, FIDH Vice-President and President of the Belarusian Human Rights Centre "Viasna".
12.08.2011 Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders addresses Belarusian authorites on Bialiatski's arrest
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your intervention in the following situation in Belarus.
08.08.2011 Zhana Litvina: “We call for the immediate and unconditional release of Ales Bialiatski and putting an end to harassment of Belarusian human rights defenders”
Zhana Litvina, Chairperson of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, commented on the detention of a BAJ member, human rights defender Ales Bialiatski.
05.08.2011 Statement of Human Rights Center Viasna
On 4 August 2011 Ales Bialiatski, Chair of the Human Rights Center Viasna, vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), was detained within the framework of a criminal case instigated under Article 243, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, “concealment of profits on an especially large scale”. This article envisages up to 7 years of imprisonment with the confiscation of property.
29.07.2011 Statement by the International Commission against the Death Penalty on the execution of Aleh Hryshkawtsow and Andrey Burdyka in Belarus
They were sentenced to death in May 2010 and, according to several human rights organisations, have been executed without neither of them nor their families being notified in advance on their execution date.
26.07.2011 Human rights mission calls on Belarusian authorities to comply with international treaties on treatment of prisoners
The Observation Mission of the International Committee for Monitoring the Human Rights Situation in Belarus has expressed “deep concern” about the reported maltreatment of Dzmitry Bandarenka, Mikita Likhavid and Andrey Sannikaw who are serving prison sentences after being convicted in connection with the December 19, 2010 post-election protest in Minsk.
18.07.2011 EU foreign policy chief condemns brutal handling of “silent protesters” in Belarus
Catherine Ashton “regrets the Belarusian authorities’ brutal handling on repeated occasions of the ‘silent protesters’ – ordinary Belarusian citizens who peacefully and legitimately express their discontent over the situation in the country,” the spokesperson for the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy said in a statement issued on Saturday.
24.06.2011 Legal Transformation Center releases statement ahead of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
The Legal Transformation Center has released a statement “In support of actions combating torture and other Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” to be submitted to a number of state bodies of Belarus, including the Houses of Parliament, the Constitutional and the Supreme Courts, the Ministries of Defense and Interior Affairs.
