News on the topic: human rights defenders
06.08.2012 Maskouski District Court of Minsk refuses to consider Aleh Volchak's appeal
On 10 July Aleh Volchak addressed the Maskouski District Court of Minsk with an appeal against the actions (inaction) of the state institution resulting in inhuman and humiliating treatment, asking to close down the delinquents' isolation center in Akrestsin Street for bringing it in line with the UN standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners.
06.08.2012 Human rights defender appeals ruling about mass events
Human rights defender Uladzimir Tseliapun applied to the Mazyr District Court against ruling of the Mazyr District Executive Committee #1202 of 15 September 2011 concerning the holding of mass events. After the adoption of this ruling the local authorities started demanding that organizers of mass events concluded paid service agreements with police, medics and communal utilities and attached them to applications for the authorization of such actions.
06.08.2012 Navapolatsk: detention for banner “Freedom to Bialiatski!”
In the evening of 5 August an activist of the civil association “Free Region” Aliaksandr Drazdou was detained during an attempt to hang out a banner “Freedom to Bialiatski!”.
06.08.2012 Human rights defender reminds Maladechna citizens about Ales Bialiatski
As the city authorities prohibited Maladechna dweller Eduard Balanchuk to hold a picket at the central square, he walked there wearing a T-shirt “Freedom to Ales Bialiatski” in order to remind about the anniversary of the arrest of the well-known human rights defender. The police didn't pose any pretensions to him.
06.08.2012 Baranavichy: action of solidarity on anniversary of imprisonment of Ales Bialiatski
On 4 August, the anniversary of the imprisonment of Ales Bialiatski, local human rights defenders and civil activists held an action of solidarity with political prisoners. They posted and handed out leaflets with the demand to release the human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, the head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
06.08.2012 Vaukavysk: activist detained for posters “Freedom to Bialiatski!”
Civil activist Vital Huliak was detained while posting leaflets “Freedom to Ales Bialiatski!” in the center of Vaukavysk. As he said to RFE/RL over the telephone, he did it in order to express solidarity with Ales Bialiatski, marking the international solidarity day with the civil society of Belarus.
06.08.2012 Brest: human rights defender holds race of solidarity with Ales Bialiatski
Human rights defender Uladzimir Malei ran along the busiest streets of the region's capital wearing a T-shirt “Freedom to Ales Bialiatski!”.
03.08.2012 Belarusian human rights defenders pass petition for release of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners to Presidential Administration
Representatives of democratic NGOs, civil activists and human rights defenders of Belarus paid a visit to the Presidential Administration to pass the petition demanding an immediate and unconditional release of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners and cessation of pressurization on human rights and civil society organizations of the country.
03.08.2012 Barysau authorities ban picket in support of Ales Bialiatski
The Barysau District Executive Committee prohibited the local human rights defenders to hold a picket under the slogan “Freedom to Ales Bialiatski!” near one of large departments store of Barysau on 4 August.
03.08.2012 Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: BELARUS:
First year of imprisonment for Ales Bialiatski, a sad illustration of the ongoing repression of the Belarusian civil society
03.08.2012 The head of FIDH: Belarusian human rights activists amaze by their persistence
Souhayr Belhassen supported the initiative of the International Day of Solidarity with the civil society in Belarus.
02.08.2012 Court turns down appeal of human rights defender Aleh Hulak
The head of the human rights organization "Belarusian Helsinki Committee" Aleh Hulak insisted that the court recognized as illegal the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice as a result of which he was prohibited to leave the country. Representatives of the ministries didn’t recognize the complaint and asked the court not to grant it.
02.08.2012 International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society of Belarus to be marked in many countries on 4 August
The International Day of Solidarity with the Civil Society of Belarus will be marked for the first time on 4 August 2012. It was announced by a wide coalition of NGOs from different country which are members of the Committee on International Control over the Human Rights Situation in Belarus. A year ago, on 4 August 2011, the leading Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, the head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, was arrested and subsequently sentenced to 4.5 years of imprisonment.
01.08.2012 Zhodzina: human rights defenders remind the authorities about the Constitution and apply to court
On 30 July human rights defender Aliaksei Lapitski registered at the Zhodzna City Executive Committee a new application with questions to the administration which again banned a picket he intended to hold on 4 August to support the imprisoned human rights defender Ales Bialiatski.
01.08.2012 “Citizens of Belarus are deprived of the right to have rights”
This is the conclusion drawn by Mazyr human rights defender Uladzimir Malei from a series of trials concerning the prohibition of pickets in support of the head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski and other political prisoners.
