News on the topic: UN Human Rights Committee
22.09.2011 Vitsebsk resident appeals violations at UN Human Rights Committee
The UN Human Rights Committee has registered the complaint submitted by Vitsebsk resident Valery Misnikau against alleged violations of his civil rights by the Belarusian authorities.
14.09.2011 Homel: democratic activists apply to UN
Homel-based democratic activists Vasil Paliakou and Anatol Paplauny appealed to the UN Human Rights Committee against violation of their rights by the Belarusian authorities.
01.09.2011 Collective appeal to UN concerning unlawful actions of Homel City Executive Committee
Activists of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry lodged a collective complaint to the UN against repeated violation of freedom of peaceful assemblies by the Homel CEC which groundlessly refused to authorize street rallies.
28.07.2011 UN committee says executions in Belarus violate international obligations
27 July 2011 – The United Nations Human Rights Committee today accused Belarus of violating its international agreements by executing two persons while their cases were still under review by the committee.
25.07.2011 UN Human Rights Committee admits violation of Civil Alternative co-founders’ rights
The UN Human Rights Committee has released its findings on a complaint submitted by Homel civil activists Uladzimir Katsora, Leanid Sudalenka and Ihar Niamkovich, after their “Civil Alternative” public association was denied registration by the Belarusian government, www.gomelspring.org reports.
21.07.2011 Former local council candidate submits complaint to UN HR Committee
Homel activist Marya Bahdanovich, who was running for the local council in 2010, has submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee, arguing that chair of the city’s election commission Mr. Paroshyn was involved in election violations.
20.06.2011 UN Human Rights Council condemns election-related violence in Belarus
The United Nations Human Rights Council voted Friday to condemn human rights violations before, during and after the December 2010 presidential election in Belarus, and urged the government to end what called the persecution of opposition leaders, reported BelaPAN.
18.02.2011 Belarusian human rights defenders inform UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers about facts of pressure on lawyers
We, the undersigned human rights organizations of the Republic of Belarus and individual human rights defenders in personal capacity, would like to inform you about facts of pressure on lawyers by the executive authorities of Belarus, particularly, the withdrawal of licenses imposed on lawyers Uladzimir TOUSTSIK, Tamara HARAYEVA, Aleh AHEYEU and Tatsiana AHEYEVA, something threatening an access of their clients to an effective remedy and retarding the course of justice.
26.01.2011 UN Committee registers claim of Belarusian human rights activists
The United Nations Committee on Human Rights has registered and taken into consideration the claim on violation of the freedom of associations in Belarus. A human rights activist Aleh Volchak has informed this, reports BelaPAN.
04.11.2010 UN Human Rights Committee registered another complaint from Belarus
At the
end of September the UN Human Rights Committee registered the complaint of the
Vitsebsk civil activist Anatol Stambrouski under #1987/2010.
26.10.2010 UN HR Committee to consider complaint by civil activist Surhan
The UN Human Rights Committee has reportedly accepted for consideration the individual complaint submitted by Belarusian civil society activist Taras Surhan, appealing the violation of his civil rights, after he was detained and fined BYR 175,000 for hanging out a white-red-white flag in Vitsebsk on 16 July 2009.
19.10.2010 Rights of Homel activist violated by Belarusian authorities, says UN HR Committee
The UN Human Rights Committee has released its findings, condemning the violation of civil rights of Homel activist Uladzimer Katsora by the Belarusian authorities back in 2004, when the police seized 14,000 leaflets and fined the activist BYR 1,050,000, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
13.10.2010 UN Human Rights Committee to consider individual communication about violation of right to peaceful assemblies by Belarusian authorities
The UN Human Rights Committee has registered the individual communication of the Smaliavichy civil activist Yauhen Puhach concerning the violation of his right to peaceful assemblies and freedom of expression by the local authorities. The official Minsk has six months to submit to the Committee its commentaries on this case.
11.10.2010 UN: Trial over Mikhail Marynich is political lynching
The UN Human Rights Committee admitted that tortures had been used against Mikhail Marynich.
18.06.2010 UN Human Rights Committee registers another complaint of violations in Belarus
On 19 May 2010, the UN Human Rights Committee registered a complaint submitted by two Brest activists of the ‘For Freedom’ movement, Aliaksandr Milinkevich’s press-service reports.
