News on the topic: human rights defenders
28.10.2015 UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders launches thematic website
The website tells about various types of persecution of human rights defenders and their organizations, the mandate and activities of the Special Rapporteur, UN documents and external resources for the protection of human rights defenders, as well as the latest news on the issue.
27.10.2015 Customs officials to drop charges against human rights activist Leanid Sudalenka
On October 26, human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka wrote to the Homieĺ customs department to remind about the expiration of a period for administrative prosecution in a case opened against him on charges of resisting a lawful request of an official.
26.10.2015 Minsk police detain Ukrainian human rights defender for 2 hours
Ukrainian human rights activist Maria Yesenovskaya was detained in Minsk hotel Spadarozhnik on October 24 night, Lawtred reported on Facebook. Yesenovskaya was taken to the October District Department of the Interior and documents forbidding her to enter Belarus were presented to her there at about 1 a.m.
26.10.2015 Customs officers find no extremism, return laptop to human rights defender
Leanarda Loktseva, deputy chief of the Ašmiany Customs, has offered human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka to come and pick up his laptop and other printed materials that were seized by customs officials on May 25, when the activist, his vehicle and luggage were searched at the border crossing Kamienny Loh.
23.10.2015 Supreme Court increases sentence for Mikhail Zhamchuzhny
On October 23, Tatsiana Reviaka, a representative of the Human Rights Center "Viasna", attended the announcement of a decision taken following the consideration of an appeal by Mikhail Zhamchuzhny, founder of the human rights organization “Platform Innovation”.
18.10.2015 Front Line Defenders condemns charges against Leanid Sudalenka
On 14 October 2015, human rights defender Mr Leanid Sudalenko was summoned to the Department of Customs Investigation of Gomel city and informed of the charges against him. He is accused of disobeying the lawful demands of persons in the execution of their duties.
16.10.2015 Homieĺ human rights activists write to UN Special Rapporteur
The Homieĺ Center for Strategic Litigation has sent a message to Mr. Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. The activists report latest information related to the charges brought against local human rights activist Leanid Sudalenka for alleged resisting detention by customs officers.
11.10.2015 Invitation to press-conference
Public campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” invites all interested persons to the press-conference on the results of monitoring of the elections of President of the Republic of Belarus.
11.10.2015 Report on results of monitoring of mass event on October 10, 2015 in Minsk
The assembly and procession on October 10, 2015 in Minsk was peaceful. The absence of an application for holding the mass event, required by law, is not a reason to limit the freedom of peaceful assembly.
10.10.2015 Today is the World Day against the Death Penalty
October 10, 2015 the World Day against the Death Penalty, established by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, association of trade unions, local and regional authorities, legal associations and human rights organizations with a view to universal ban on this kind of penalty, is marked for the 13th time.
10.10.2015 International solidarity is important in solving the problem of the death penalty in Belarus
October 9 in Minsk, human rights activists held a press conference dedicated to the World Day against the Death Penalty.
10.10.2015 Human rights activists presented the book "Death Penalty in Belarus"
October 9 in Minsk, the Human Rights Center "Viasna" presented the documentary book "Death penalty in Belarus" which contains information on the issue since 1998 till today.
08.10.2015 Discussion "Murder on Verdict" held in Vilnius
October 7, the discussion “Murder on Verdict” was held at the Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius with the participation of the Belarusian human rights defenders, journalists and representatives of the Foreign Ministry of Lithuania.
07.10.2015 Results of expert examination of “Viasna” report on situation of human rights in Belarus for 2014 still unknown after six months
March 13, 2015, Ašmiany customs officers seized more than 40 copies of the brochure “Situation of Human Rights in Belarus in 2014. Review-Chronicle” from the Smarhoń human rights activist Ales Dzerhachou while he was crossing the border.
07.10.2015 Belarusian Embassy in Germany doesn't care for human rights
Activists of Amnesty International tried to pass to the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in Germany several hundred postcards with the demands to respect human rights. However, the embassy refused to accept them. The action is dated to the upcoming presidential elections.
