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Call for immediate and unconditional release of Ales Bialiatski

Submitted by admin on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 20:54

On 4 August 2011, Ales Bialiatski, Chair of the Human Rights Center Viasna in Belarus, was detained in Minsk. We see his detention as a direct result of Ales Bialiatski’s legitimate activities in defense of human rights in Belarus. The framework of the criminal case against Ales Bialiatski is instigated under Article 243, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, for “concealment of profits on an especially large scale”. This article envisages up to 7 years of imprisonment with the confiscation of property.

A New Attack on Belarus’ Civil Society — Ales Bialiatski is detained

Submitted by admin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 17:51

Today Ales Bialiatski, the Head of the Viasna Human Rights Center and the Vice President of the FIDH, was detained in Minsk. The human rights defender was arrested by the unknown persons in civil clothes presenting themselves as finance police officers. This is all that Ales Beliatskiy managed to convey to his colleague, Vladimir Labkovich. After the arrest, he was not allowed to make phone calls.

URGENT: Human rights defender Ales Bialjatski arrested in Minsk

Submitted by admin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 14:55

According to the Human Rights Centre "Viasna", its leader and vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Ales Bialjatski was arrested today in his apartment in Minsk. His location at the moment is unknown. There is a search taking place at his apartment.

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International Observation Mission in Belarus: six months of work in the country

Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 10:08

The International Observation Mission in Belarus was established on December 27th, 2010 by the decision of the Committee on International Control over the Situation with Human Rights in Belarus. In fact, after the closure of the OSCE office in Belarus, the Mission turned out to be the only international actor carrying out permanent monitoring of the human rights situation in the country.

NGO's letter to support the adoption of a resolution on the human rights situation in Belarus at the 17th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 13:03

 To Permanent Representatives of all 
member states of the UN Human Rights Council 

RE: Addressing the situation of human rights in Belarus at the UN Human Rights Council

Geneva, May 30, 2011

Special operation against the Special Rapporteur: Belarus is afraid of independent assessment of the human rights situation

Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 22:30

May 4, 2011, Minsk, Belarus. Human rights defenders from different OSCE countries were again detained in Minsk, in the office of “Viasna” Human Rights Center ahead of a press-conference where the Interim Report on events of 19th December, 2010 in Minsk, produced by the Special Rapporteur of Committee of International Control, was to be presented. Two representatives of the International Observation Mission were told to leave the country in 24 hours and are banned from entering Belarus for two years.

Presentation of the report on the events of 19 December 2010 in Minsk

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 18:56

On the 4th of May the presentation of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Committee on International Control over the Situation with Human Rights in Belarus “Interim Human Rights Assessment of the Events of 19 December 2010 in Minsk, Belarus” will take place.

Statement of United States Mission to the OSCE on the Continuing Situation in Belarus

Submitted by admin on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 07:41

United States Mission to the OSCE
Statement on the Continuing
Situation in Belarus

As delivered by Chargé d’Affaires, a. i. Carol Fuller
to the Permanent Council, Vienna
March 24, 2011

STATEMENT of the Steering Council of the Committee regarding violations by the Republic of Belarus of the OSCE commitments

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 08:21

April 22nd, 2011

 


STATEMENT
of the Steering Council of the Committee on International Control over the Situation with Human Rights in Belarus regarding violations by the Republic of Belarus of the OSCE commitments related to assistance to non-governmental organizations in monitoring conditions in the human dimension

Belarus is closed for the Ukrainian human rights activists: second episode

Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 07:37

On 20th of April Marina Tsapok – human rights activist from Ukraine was detained while crossing the border.

She was going to Minsk to be the information assistant in the International observation mission in Minsk. She was taken off the train from Kyiv at the Belarusian frontier post “Teryukha”. Marina as well as other foreign human rights defenders Andrey Yurov and Maxim Kitsyuk found out to be included into the "black list" of foreign nationals  prohibited to enter the Republic of Belarus.

News of Belarus

International Observation Mission in Belarus will appoint the Representative on Human Rights Defenders

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/15/2013 - 12:32

The International Observation Mission of the Committee on International Control over the Human Rights Situation in Belarus has announced the opening of the contest for the post of the Representative on Human Rights Defenders.

PACE rapporteur dismayed by harassment of Viasna human rights centre in Belarus

Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/28/2012 - 15:29

Strasbourg, 21.11.2012 – Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD), the rapporteur on Belarus of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has expressed his dismay that the “Viasna” human rights centre in Minsk has been ordered to vacate its office by 27 November, following a year of obscure legal procedures which transferred ownership of the apartment in which the office is located to the state.

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