Новости Комитета

Statement #4 of the long-term International Monitoring Mission

Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 16:31

February 21st, 2011
Minsk

“On the observance of the standards on openness and publicity of court proceedings while handling the criminal cases in regard to the participants of the events on December 19th, 2010”

News of Belarus

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.

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.