News on the topic: torture
09.04.2012 Beaten "Young Front" activists sentenced to 10 days of arrest
Zmitser Kramianetski and Mikhail Muski were detained in Minsk on Saturday evening while waiting for a train at Kupalayskaya metro station. According to Charter’97, they were stopped for inspection because of a “Young Front” cloth badge on his backpack. There was a white-red-white flag and a cross of Euphrosyne of Polatsk on the cloth badge.
05.04.2012 Last trial concerning concert in “Yo-mayo” to take place on 9 April
Ihar Trukhanovich, detained and severely beaten on 24 March, during a Saturday concert at “Yo-mayo” club, will be tried for “disorderly conduct” as some other detainees.
05.04.2012 Ihar Sluchak cannot return to Estonia without documents
Ihar Sluchak, the founder of the civil initiative "Office Work in Belarusian" has received an answer to his appeal to the Supreme Court these days.
04.04.2012 Metamorphoses in the case of "petty hooligan" Sviatlana Viarheichyk
Police beat pensioner Sviatlana Viarheichyk during detention more than 8 months ago. Since that time she has been keeping correspondence with the law machinery, trying to restore justice and draw to legal account the officers of the Kastrychnitski District Police Department of Minsk who had inflicted bodily injuries to her.
27.03.2012 Complaint on torture against Zmitser Bandarenka submitted to UN
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has received a complaint with a request to investigate facts of using torture against political prisoner Zmitser Bandarenka.
15.03.2012 Political prisoner Dashkevich put into penal cell for 30 days
Relatives and friends of the "Young Front" leader are shocked by the number of days he had to spend in the punishment cell.
28.02.2012 Belarusian Helsinki Committee demands to inspect torture report by Valadarski detention center prisoner
The Belarusian Helsinki Committee has lodged an appeal with the Prosecutor General’s Office demanding to investigate torture allegations reported by Mr. Siarhei Hafarau, inmate of Minsk detention center in Valadarski Street, Radio Racyja reports.
10.02.2012 Belarusian awards: official becomes “man of the year” despite beating his subordinates
Director of the Mahiliou milk enterprise "Babushkina Krynka Ihar Kananchuk won the special prize of the Mahiliou Regional Executive Committee, "Man of the Year" in nomination "Industrial activity".
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.
30.01.2012 Communication concerning torture of Andrei Sannikau filed with UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
A complaint about torture of Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau has been submitted to the UN special rapporteur on torture.
30.01.2012 Belarusian Helsinki Committee asks General Procuracy to check information about torture of Andrei Sannikau
The reason for the appeal of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee to the General Procuracy is information which was filed by the wife of former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau, Iryna Khalip at a press conference in Minsk on 25 January.
30.01.2012 Minsk dweller goes on hunger-strike of protest against torture of Andrei Sannikau
That’s how Andrei Nikalayeu wants to show support to his candidate.
30.01.2012 Tougher conditions created for political prisoner Zmitser Bandarenka
On Monday new terms of confinement for Zmitser Bandarenka are introduced in the Mahiliou colony, as the coordinator of the civic campaign European Belarus told his wife on 29 January in a telephone conversation.
25.01.2012 Statement: Viasna strongly condemns use of torture, intimidation, blackmail and other intolerable kinds of harassment against prisoners of conscience
Minsk – 25 January 2012 The Human Rights Center “Viasna” strongly condemns the use of torture, intimidation, blackmail and other intolerable kinds of harassment against prisoners of conscience. Of especial concern is the recent report by Mrs. Iryna Khalip, the wife of former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau, saying that the prisoner’s life is at risk due to the reported use of torture and inhuman treatment against him.
25.01.2012 Iryna Khalip: Lukashenka’s aim not to release Sannikov from prison alive
The wife of the presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov held an urgent press-conference on January 25.
