News on the topic: UN Human Rights Committee
28.01.2013 UN Human Rights Committee expects measures taken in Kavaliou’s case
Mrs. Liubou Kavaliova, the mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou executed in March 2012, received a communication from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights saying that the UN officials are expecting information from the Belarusian government on measures taken to implement the Human Rights Committee’s decision in her son’s case. The information should be submitted by July 3, 2013.
23.01.2013 Fair World Zhlobin members appeal picket ban at UN Human Rights Committee
The UN Human Rights Committee has accepted a joint complaint by Zhlobin members of the party “Fair World” submitted to challenge a decision by the local executive committee to ban a number of pickets in 2012. This was announced by the head of the party’s district office Valery Rybchanka.
14.01.2013 Aleh Volchak addresses UN Human Rights Committee in connection with arrests
The head of the human rights center "Legal Assistance to the Population" Aleh Volchak applied to the UN Human Rights Committee with a complaint in which he lists the facts of systemic violation of the civil rights to freedom and personal immunity, as well as the use of politically motivated adverse discrimination.
09.01.2013 UN Human Rights Committee takes the side of the Vitsebsk pensioner activist
On 25 March 2008 Antanina Pivanos decided to make a gift to the oppositionist Barys Khamaida – she brought him an embroidery with words from the prayer "Our father".
08.01.2013 Landmark UN decision: Ales Bialiatski’s detention arbitrary, release and compensation requested
Paris-Geneva, December 21, 2012. At its 64th session, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted decision A/HRC/WGAD/2012/39, published on November 23, in which it found that the detention of Mr. Ales Bialiatski, President of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Viasna” and FIDH Vice-President, was arbitrary.
02.01.2013 Maya Abromchyk: "I will use all legal methods to get the justice"
The complaint of the student Maya Abromchyk who had suffered from the violent actions of the riot police during the dispersal of the peaceful protest action on Nezalezhsnats Square in Minsk in the aftermath of the presidential election of 19 December 2010, was registered by the UN Human Rights Committee.
28.12.2012 Center for Strategic Litigation submits 29 communications to UN Human Rights Committee within a year
Since the beginning of 2012, the Homel-based Center for Strategic Litigation NGO has initiated 28 new strategic lawsuits and submitted 29 communications to the UN Human Rights Committee, 10 of which have already been registered. During 2012, the Committee adopted four decisions on the complaints prepared by the Center, which found violations of certain rights of Belarusian citizens.
22.11.2012 UN Human Rights Committee rules in the case of Uladzislau Kavaliou
Mrs. Liubou Kavaliova, the mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou (Kovalev), executed for plotting and implementing a lethal blast in Minsk underground in April 2011, received the decision of the UN Human Rights Committee. The complaint was considered in less than a year. The Committee recognized that the investigation was conducted with numerous errors, Kavaliou was subjected to physical violence and forced to testify against himself, the court was not impartial and, most importantly, the right to life was violated.
08.11.2012 Complaint of Brest customs officers registered at UN Human Rights Committee
22 former inspectors of the “Western Buh” customs office and 7 former mechanics of the terminal of the “Westauto” enterprise filed individual communications to this international structure back in March 2011. They pointed at violation of their right to fair trial.
29.10.2012 Brest left-wing activist appeals picket ban at UN Human Rights Committee
Having exhausted all domestic judicial remedies, Aliaksandr Dzenisenka, Brest activist of the Fair World United Left Party, has submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee, challenging a ban on holding a picket imposed by the city’s executive authorities.
26.10.2012 Brest human rights defender appeals violations at UN Human Rights Committee
Human rights defender Uladzimir Vialichkin has submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee to challenge a ban on holding a picket in support of the imprisoned leader of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski.
24.09.2012 Belarusian state refuses cooperation with the UN Human Rights Committee in Bialiatski case as his detention conditions worsen
The Government of Belarus has responded to a complaint to the Human Rights Committee in the case of Ales Bialiatski, filed on his behalf by his wife, Natalia Pinchuk, and signed by Antoine Bernard, the Chief Executive Officer of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), of which Mr. Bialiatski is vice-president (link http://spring96.org/en/news/53618).
13.09.2012 UN Human Rights Committee registers complaint by Valiantsin Stefanovich
The UN Human Rights Committee has registered a complaint submitted by deputy chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Valiantsin Stefanovich. The complaint deals with extremely poor detention conditions the human rights defender was subjected to during his arrest back in 2010.
26.08.2012 Rights of Baranavichy activists violated, says UN Human Rights Committee
“The Human Rights Committee, acting under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, is of the view that the facts before it disclose a violation by Belarus of article 19 and article 21 of the Covenant,” says the UN Human Rights Committee in its Views adopted on July 27, 2012, as a response to the complaint submitted by Baranavichy pro-democratic activists Siarhei Housha, Viktar Syrytsa and Viktar Meziak.
05.07.2012 The UN Human Rights Council creates a Special Rapporteur on Belarus
Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a resolution on the situation of human rights in Belarus expressing concerns over the prompt deterioration of the situation of human rights in the country following the Presidential elections of December 2010, and establishing a mandate for a Special Rapporteur to monitor the situation, work with the authorities and the domestic civil society, and report back to the Council and to the General Assembly.
