News on the topic: ecological rights
11.11.2011 Slonim: democratic activists oppose cutting of woodland park as well
Association of the democratic forces of Slonim has filed a collective address with the Slonim District Executive Committee concerning ruling #536 of the Hrodna Region Executive Committee of 29 July 2011, sanctioning the cutting of the woodland park in the Albiartsin suburb with the aim to clear plots of land (first of all, for wealthy people and state officials). The woodland was divided into parts and marks were put on the trees which would be cut down.
10.11.2011 Search at Mikalai Ulasevich’s house
On 9 November police searched the house of Mikalai Ulasevich, an activist of the civil initiative “Astravets Nuclear Power Plant is a Crime”, in the town of Varniany in the Astravets district. The search took place in his absence, at about 4 p.m. They opened the wardrobes and bookcases and shot the rooms on video. They didn’t take away anything and left no official warrants to confirm their right to such actions.
14.10.2011 Brest ecologists are worried
The construction of dwelling houses and a shopping and leisure center is carried out actively in Brest, on the territory which was used for unloading and interim storing of the uranic ore waste, brought from the German Democratic Republic during the Soviet times.
11.10.2011 Vitsebsk: police intimidate civil activists
On 11 October the Vitsebsk youth intended to hold a flash-mob “Radiation 2.0” in order to express their disagreement with the state plans to construct a nuclear power plant in Belarus. A special event was created in the social network “Vkontakte” in order to coordinate the actions.
09.09.2011 Unlawful cutting of trees in Salihorsk
As it became known to social activists of the campaign Protecting Wood the cutting of a piece of wood in the green zone between Zaslonau and Kazlou Streets was appointed on the weekend.
29.04.2011 Viasna activist Tseliapun receives Chernobyl Courage Cross
Uladzimir Tseliapun, Mazyr activist of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, has been awarded the Ukrainian order “Chernobyl Cross: Courage, Honour, Humanity” for his contribution to the removal of the consequences of the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster on the site of the event.
14.04.2011 Babruisk citizens start collecting signatures against construction of Nuclear Power Station
On 13 April representatives of the democratic forces of Babruisk began collecting signatures under the appeal to President Aliaksandr Lukashenka requiring to stop building the nuclear power plant in Belarus and to restrict the access to all types of radioactive substances into the territory of our country.
14.01.2011 Court didn’t punish officials for failure to present information to ecologists
The Hrodna Region Economic Court refused to oblige the direction of the construction of the nuclear power plant in Astravets to familiarize the public circles with documentation concerning the NPP construction. According to Regnum, this information was given on 12 January by a lawyer of the Ekadom NGO, Siarhei Mahonau.
09.12.2010 Lithuanian MFA requires explanations concerning Belarus’ plans to construct a nuclear power plant
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania asks for explanations in connection with statements of Belarusian officials regarding the planned construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. The MFA notes Vilnius still has concerns about the environmental impact of the NPP.
11.11.2010 Ministry of Health hushes up truth about radiation in Belarus
The Ministry of Health refused to give information about the level of the internal absorbed dose of radiation for the year of 2009.
28.07.2010 Lithuanian position concerning Belarusian nuclear power plant remains negative
The position of Lithuania on construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant has not changed. BelaPAN was informed about that by the head of the Nuclear Energy Commission of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania Rokas Žilinskas.
21.07.2010 Cassation complaint of Ales Abramovich dismissed
On 20 July the Barysau district court considered the cassation complaint of a civil activist Ales Abramovich against the verdict of the Barusau District Court by which he had been found guilty of violating Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offences, ‘Violation of the order of organizing or holding mass events or picket).
16.06.2010 Green activists sue constructors of NPP
The public association ‘Ecodom’ is suing the construction managers of the Belarusian nuclear power plant, arguing that they violated the Aarhus Convention by failing to provide evaluation of the NPP’s possible impact on the environment, Radio Racyja reports.
14.06.2010 Human rights defenders cannot find detained Barysau activists
The civil activists Ales Abramovich and Alesia Yasiuk were detained in the Barysau suburb Liadzishcha during a rally gainst the construction of a nuclear power-plant in Belarus.
02.06.2010 Lida: spontaneous rally against environmental pollution
More than two thousand signatures have been already collected under a demand to the authorities to revoke the decision to build a Metal Structures Hot Dip Galvanizing plant in the town of Lida. The local dwellers expressed their protest also at a meeting held on 1 June.
