News on the topic: EU-Belarus
16.02.2012 Andrei Paluda: “Unfortunately, Belarus authorities totally disregard European Parliament’s resolutions”
Today, the European Parliament is expected to consider the issue of the death penalty in Belarus, Egypt and Japan. Representatives of the campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” are said to closely monitor Europe’s reaction to Belarusian events.
16.02.2012 MEP Marek Migalski stands up for Ivan Shyla
He has sent a letter to Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski and Polish Ambassador to Belarus Leszek Szerepka.
15.02.2012 President of EU Parliament demands to free political prisoners in Belarus
Martin Schulz, the EP President, and Stefan Füle, the EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy, have had a meeting today. They discussed the situation in Belarus. Martin Schulz made a statement after the meeting, ERB reports.
13.02.2012 Belarusian TV accuses Poland of organizing coup d’etat in Belarus
Belarus-1 TV channel showed one more “investigation” carried out by the TV Infoservice.
09.02.2012 German Ombudsman banned entry to Belarus
The Belarusian authorities denied entry to Belarus for Germany’s human rights commissioner Markus Loening. The information was spread by the German MFA.
08.02.2012 EU urges Belarusian authorities to stop torture of political prisoners
The EU calls on Belarus to fulfill the country’s international obligations of the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
06.02.2012 Action in Prague: human rights evicted
In the morning of 6 February cars with furniture and slogans: “Human rights got evicted” appeared near the entrance of the Belarusian Embassy in the Czech Republic, marking the start of an action in support of human rights defender Ales Bialiatski and the Human Rights Center “Viasna”.
01.02.2012 Picket in support of Ales Bialiatski held in Stockholm
A picket in support of human rights defender Ales Bialiatski and other political prisoners in Belarus was held near the Belarusian Embassy in Stockholm on 31 January. It was organized by the Swedish human rights initiative Östgruppen in cooperation with Civil Rights Defenders, the Swedish branch of Amnesty International and the Swedish Union of Writers.
30.01.2012 Two European MPs demand abolishment of death sentence to Kanavalau and Kavaliou
MEPs Laima Andrikiene and Eduard Kukan in their joint statement have deplored the unfair trial of both Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou and urgently called on President Lukashenka to establish an immediate moratorium of their death penalty. They have stressed the growing urgency for this, as both condemned can be executed now at any moment without warning, after their appeal for clemency had been rejected.
28.01.2012 Parliamentarians of Council of Europe nominate Ales Bialiatski for Nobel Peace Prize
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27.01.2012 Polish MPs nominate Bialiatski for Nobel Peace Prize too
Signatures for the nomination of the Belarusian human rights defender and political prisoner Ales Bialiatski were collected in the Polish Parliament by representatives of the two biggest Polish parties – the ruling “Civil Platform” and the oppositional “Law and Justice”.
25.01.2012 Schulz condemns courts' decisions in Belarus
"Bialiatski should be released unconditionally along with the remaining political prisoners", says President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz.
25.01.2012 Belarus: Commissioner Füle with the activists of Viasna
Brussels - Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle met Vice-President of the Belarusian Human Rights Centre “Viasna” Valiantin Stefanovic to discuss the situation of human rights activists in Belarus.
24.01.2012 EU set to broaden criteria for imposing sanctions on Belarusian officials
The European Union's foreign ministers agreed at their meeting on Monday to broaden the criteria for imposing "restrictive measures" on Belarusian persons and entities in response to human rights abuse and the persecution of the government's political opponents.
16.01.2012 MEPs consider Ales Bialiatski’s case
The delegation of the International Federation for Human Rights took part in the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee meeting to discuss the situation in Belarus held in Brussels on 12 January.
