News for May 2009
06.05.2009 Belarusian authorities can take away children from families without trial
The Belarusian authorities received the legal opportunity to take away children from the families in the case of real threat to their life and health.
06.05.2009 Brest city executive committee banned the picket dedicated to the tenth anniversary of disappearance of Yury Zakharanka
Brest city executive committee did not grant the application for the picket, dedicated to the tenth anniversary of disappearance of the former minister of interior Yury Zakharanka. The politician was kidnapped on 7 May 1999 and has been missing since then.
06.05.2009 Masty: workers sue against the enterprise
Two workers of Mastoudreu have filed a suit to Masty district court against the unlawful dismissal from the enterprise.
06.05.2009 Valiantsin Stefanovich: ‘Why use water cannons if policemen like to beat people with feet?’
According to Alexander Lukashenka, the legislation in Belarus is better than in the European Union. In the interview to the Reuters agency he stated that ‘dictator Lukashenka hasn’t ever used tear gas or water cannons’.
06.05.2009 Lukashenka signed the law on amnesty
The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenka signed the law On amnesty in connection with the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from German Nazi invaders.
06.05.2009 Ministry of Justice is considering an anonymous letter related to Belarusian Christian Democracy Party
On 6 May a co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Pavel Seviarynets and the responsible secretary of the party Dzianis Sadouski had a meeting with the justice minister Viktar Halavanau concerning registration of the party.
06.05.2009 Action of solidarity with political prisoners: day five
Before the rally of solidarity that was to start in Kastrychnitskaya Square of Minsk on 5 May in the evening, several street cleaning machines arrived to the scene. For some time people couldn’t stay on the square, as they risked to be showered by water.
06.05.2009 Hunger-strike in support of Mikalai Autukhovich becomes international
7 more public activists have joined the indefinite hunger strike of solidarity with Mikalai Autukhovich, Yury Liavonau and Uladzimir Asipenka.
06.05.2009 Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in April 2009
Few people gathered for the traditional action Chernobyl Way at the end of April. 'The past rally can be called an action of recession', commented Liavon Barshcheuski, Chairperson of the BPF Party. Meanwhile, persecution of democratic activists is going on. Human rights defenders are of the opinion that only point changes have taken place. The Minsk city executive committee banned holding of the action on the route that was proposed by its organizers. Democratic activists were detained in different regions of the country.
05.05.2009 Police don’t know what to do with detained entrepreneurs
On 5 May at about 10.40 a.m. the head of the entrepreneurs’ organization Perspective Anatol Shumchanka and his deputies Viktar Chaikouski and Volha Krumina were detained by the police in Kasmanautau Strip while getting out of the car.
05.05.2009 Fined for anti-draft banner
The youth activist Siarhei Kliuyeu was fined 175 000 Belarusian rubles for having hung out a banner in Minsk on 23 February.
05.05.2009 Homel: police visit oppositionists’ apartments
Homel police are visiting opposition activists living near the supposed place of meeting of Lukashenka and Yushchenko.
05.05.2009 Action of solidarity with Mikalai Autukhovich: day four
The action of solidarity with political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich, who has gone on hunger strike, continued in Minsk on 4 May.
04.05.2009 New offence on negligent parents
The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to introduce amendments to presidential decree #18 with the aim to increase the responsibility of parents who evade from paying alimonies.
04.05.2009 Journalist’s complaint brings no result
As it follows from the letter, received by the journalist Ivan Roman, the head of Leninski district branch of the custodial service of Hrodna, police major Zaikou thinks that his subordinates were right when they did not let the journalist to the open court hearings.
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