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Statement by PACE in support of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Price to Ales Bialiatski

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 09:22

In support of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Price to Ales Bialiatski, Belarusian Human Rights Defender.

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Original sourse http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc12/EDOC12854.pdf

Parliamentary Assembly: Resolution 1857 (2012)

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 21:46

The situation in Belarus

Resolution 1857 (2012)1

1.       The Parliamentary Assembly is deeply concerned about the deteriorating situation of human rights and civil and political liberties in Belarus, since the adoption in January 2011 of Resolution 1790 (2011) on the situation in Belarus in the aftermath of the presidential elections.

The Conference of International Non Governmental Organisations (INGOs) of the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg on 27 January 2012

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 21:31

Resolution adopted on 27 January 2012 
CONF/PLE(2012)RES1
Concerning Civil Society in Belarus
The Conference of International Non Governmental Organisations (INGOs) of the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg on 27 January 2012

News of Belarus

Belarus: “New legislative amendments unduly restrict fundamental rights,” warn UN experts

Submitted by admin on Tue, 11/29/2011 - 14:30

GENEVA (24 November 2011) – Three United Nations independent experts warned that the new legislative amendments recently adopted by the National Assembly of Belarus may severely and arbitrarily restrict the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, association and expression, and breach international law.

PACE Bureau expresses consternation at Bialatski sentence in Belarus

Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 14:42

Press release - AP117(2011)

Statement by members of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” on the sentence to Ales Bialiatski

Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/24/2011 - 09:30

Today, on November 24, 2011, Judge Siarhei Bandarenka of Pershamaiski District Court in Minsk sentenced our colleague – chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, vice-president of FIDH Ales Bialiatski to 4.5 years of imprisonment. The human rights activist was convicted of allegedly committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code – “tax evasion on a large scale”.

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