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Милиция заявляет о подозрении задержанных правозащитников в причастности к теракту

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:10

19 апреля, в Минске были задержаны правозащитник Павел Левинов, член Белорусского Хельсинкского Комитета, Олег Борщевский, независимый журналист, Ольга Карач, лидер организации «Наш дом» и Валерий Щукин, журналист и правозащитник. На данный момент, по словам сотрудников милиции, Павел Левинов задержан на 10 суток по подозрению в причастности к теракту 11 апреля.

Russian journalist Alexander Lashmankin sentenced to administrative arrest in Orsha (Belarus). In response the journalist went on a hunger strike

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 23:35

The city courtof Orsha settledthe case of “disorderly conduct” in which Alexander Lashmankin was accused – a Russian journalist, editor of the news agency “Freedom”, which received official accreditation from the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. The judge Ina Kokhav found the arguments of the charges convincing enough and sentenced him to three days of administrative arrest. The jailed journalist went onhunger strike.

Head of the International Observation Mission is being deported from Belarus

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 11:55

Today, on March 17th, at 11 a.m. Andrey Yurov, a famous human rights defender, Head of the International Observation Mission of the Committee on International Control over the Situation with Human Rights in Belarus was released from custody in the Soviet district police department of Minsk. He spent the whole night there after his detention in a flat in Minsk where Andrey often stays.

Руководителя Международной наблюдательной миссии депортируют из Беларуси

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 09:44

Сегодня, 17 марта, в 11.00 из Советском РУВД г. Минска выпущен Андрей Юров - известный правозащитник, руководитель Международной наблюдательной миссии Комитета международного контроля за ситуацией с правами чедловека в Беларуси. Он провел в РУВД всю ночь после его задержания на квартире в Минске, где он обычно останавливается.

Head of the International Observation Mission is detained in Minsk

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 00:11

Mr. Andrey Yurov, a prominent human rights activist and citizen of the Russian Federation, is detained in Minsk. According to the police, he is officially banned from entering the territory of the Republic of Belarus. Currently, Mr. Yurov is held at the police department of the Soviet District of Minsk. His local and international colleagues fear that the authorities of the Republic of Belarus may deport the human rights defender.

MEPs call for tougher measures against human rights abuses in Belarus

Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 15:32

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PACE rapporteur on Belarus condemns continuing political repression

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 11:30

Strasbourg, 09.03.2011 - At a meeting of the PACE Political Affairs Committee in Paris today, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, Sinikka Hurskainen (Finland, SOC), strongly condemned the continuing repression of civil society, human rights defenders, independent media and political opponents in Belarus.

Russians were taken to court: extend and don’t have mercy on

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/01/2011 - 22:50

An author is an employee of the International observation mission Committee to control the situation concerning human rights in Belarus. Also a task is to observe uncover of the cases and a justice in criminal cases of the 19th of December

Jagland reacts to sentencing of opposition activist in Belarus

Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:43

Strasbourg, 18.02.2011 – "Reducing the opposition to silence and ignoring basic democratic principles will not help President Lukashenka and the Belarusian authorities to gain legitimacy or credibility among the international community," said Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland today.

Belarus: the first criminal trial for December 19th case

Submitted by admin on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 16:20

Yesterday, on February 17th, in Minsk the first criminal trial on the case of participation in the riots at the Independence Square on December 19th took place. According to paragraph 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code, the penalty for this deed can range from three to eight years of imprisonment. The trial of the accused Vasily Parfenkov passed in a record quick time – within one day the court considered the evidence, listened to the arguments of the prosecution and defense and awarded a sentence (four years in penal colony).

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Raman Kisliak applies against inclusion in lawbreakers' database

Submitted by admin on Tue, 11/13/2012 - 20:48

Тhe unlawful inclusion of the human rights defender in this database by the police became the reason for his detention and subsequent fingerprinting on 8 November.

In the appeal, filed by Raman Kisliak t the head of the Leninski District Police Department of Brest, it is stated that the inclusion him in the database of lawbreakers by officers of the Leninski DPD is unlawful, as far as they have neither addressed him in connection with the procedure of dactylography nor presented him any administrative charges lately.

Show solidarity with ARCHE!

Submitted by admin on Tue, 11/06/2012 - 22:33

“ARCHE” is the only thick monthly magazine in the Belarusian language which has been regularly issued since 1998. However, the events that have been taking place since the arrest of it’s the then chief editor Valer Bulhakau can put a cross on the further existence of the edition.

Belarus: PACE committee proposes the nomination of Ales Bialiatski for the 2013 PACE Human Rights Prize

Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/05/2012 - 20:24

Strasbourg, 04.10.2012 – In a statement adopted today in Strasbourg, the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) announced its unanimous decision to support the proposal by Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD), rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, to nominate Ales Bialiatski – the human rights defender sentenced on 24 November 2011 to four and a half years’ imprisonment – for the 2013 PACE Human Rights Prize.

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