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International Observation Mission about tragic events in Minsk on April 11

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 14:56

Yesterday on April 11, 2011 a bomb exploded in Minsk at Oktyabrskaya subway station, resulting in more than 10 killed and over 100 wounded.
International Observation Mission brings its sincere condolences to victims’ families and all those injured.

Statement by the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Promotion of Civil Society and Human Rights

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 17:40

Statement by the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Promotion of Civil Society and Human Rights оn the situation in Belarus 

January 25, 2011 

Conference of International NGOs of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 13:10

Conference of International NGOs of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution on the situation in Belarus including with reference to the role of the Committee of International Control and the International Observation Mission.  Alexandra Delemenchuk the member of the Secretariat of the Committee has participated in the conference.

http://www.coe.int/t/ngo/Articles/CONF_PLE_2011_RES2_Belarus_en.asp

Results of the first month of the International Committee of the International Observation Mission work. Press conference

Submitted by admin on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 15:16

January 27 in Minsk held a press conference on the results of the first month of the International Committee of the International Observation Mission to monitor the situation of human rights in Belarus.Press conference was held at the office of HRC Viasna, gathered 15 journalists of the Belarusian and foreign media.

Press-conference in the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 14:49

Belarus: a month after December 19th: Tragedy for one country or for the whole Europe?

News of Belarus

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.

Human rights defender Tatsiana Reviaka questioned by KGB

Submitted by admin on Tue, 08/21/2012 - 21:33

Mrs. Tatsiana Reviaka, member of the Human Rights Center Viasna’s Council, has been summoned for “conversation” to the KGB central office, after she received an official writ, saying that she should be questioned “as a person being aware of circumstances that have significance for maintaining the national security of the Republic of Belarus.”

Tatsiana Reviaka visited the KGB office, accompanied by her lawyer.

Ales Bialiatski: “I am a persistent violator!”

Submitted by admin on Sun, 08/12/2012 - 13:33

Back in the middle of June the imprisoned head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski wrote in his letter to Valiantsin Stefanovich: “It seems to me that the reprimands I have received are not the last ones”. The new information from Babruisk, where Ales is currently kept, confirms these words. Thus, in his letter to Valiantsin Stefanovich of 5 August he writes about more reprimands, issued to him by the administration of penal colony #2.

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