The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

News for June 2012

11.06.2012 Andrei Mouchan is accused of self-beating

Andrei Mouchan, an activist of "European Belarus" civil campaign beaten by police, visited the Investigation Committee.

11.06.2012 Political prisoner Vaskovich doesn't receive even envelopes

Political prisoner Yauhen Vaskovich does not receive even empty envelopes of the letters sent to him. He wrote it in a letter to his family, BCD party press service reports.

11.06.2012 Hrodna: Orthodox priest to be tried for refusal from fingerprinting

An Orthodox Christian priest in Hrodna will stand trial on 12 June for his refusal to be fingerprinted by police.

08.06.2012 Baranavichy: civil activist Ryhor Hryk gets dismissed from work

On 8 June Ryhor Hryk received a written notice that his labor contract would not be extended. The engineer of the personnel department of the car aggregates plant Ala Tkachova and the engineer of the engineer of labor organization and salaries department Volha Minich.

08.06.2012 Supervisory appeal of Ales Bialiatski turned down

As it became known today from a letter of the Head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna", vice-president of the International Federation of Human Rights Ales Bialiatski to his wife, the chairman of the Minsk City Court dismissed the supervisory complaint filed by the human rights activist and his lawyer against the verdict of the Pershamaiski Dstrict Court of Minsk and the ruling of the panel of judges of the Minsk City Court.

08.06.2012 Representative of commission for supervision over penitentiary institutions meets with Ales Bialiatski

On 5 June the member of the board of the civil association “Mahiliou Human Rights Center” Viktar Sidarenka paid a visit to Babruisk penal colony #2 to meet with the convicted human rights defender Ales Bialiatski.

08.06.2012 Baranavichy activist struggles for equality before law

Civil activist Ryhor Hryk filed written applications with the Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General. He informs them that on 22 May the Savetski District Court of Minsk granted the lawsuit of a worker of the oil-processing plant Maryna Tsybliyenka against oppositional politician Viktar Ivashkevich.

08.06.2012 Administration of Brest State University continues pressurizing independent trade union

The head of the Brest regional organization of the Free Trade Union of Belarus Valiantsin Lazarenkau received a letter from the university’s rector Mechyslau Chasnouski, in which the official demands to be provided with the list of all FTUB members working in the educational establishment.

08.06.2012 Barysau: UCP activist sues authorities

On 5 June the head of the Barysau city organization of the United Civil Party Mikhail Vasiliieu sued the Barysau District Executive Committee in connection with prohibition of a series of pickets "For honest elections without Lukashenka".

08.06.2012 Homel: court turns down Niapomniashchykh's appeal

On 5 June Homel Region Court considered the appeal of a member of the United Civil Party and Movement "For Freedom!", police pensioner Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh against a verdict of the Tsentralny District Court of Homel.

08.06.2012 Liubou Kavaliova applies to KGB head

Liubou Kavaliova, the mother of the executed convict Uladzislau Kavaliou, didnt receive an answer of the KGB pre-trial prison administration towards her inquiry within the legal term (one month). In her letter to the KGB head Vadzim Zaitsau she writes that his subordinates violate the presidential decree about citizens' applications.

08.06.2012 Hrodna: journalists punished with big fines

The trials over the journalists, protesters and passers-by detained during an action of protest in Hrodna on 31 May continued on 6 and 7 June.

08.06.2012 Political prisoner Eduard Lobau may be declared "malicious offender"

Eduard Lobau started getting endless warnings for rules violations. The "Young Front" activist sent a letter to political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets, bchd.info reports.Eduard Lobau started getting endless warnings for rules violations. The "Young Front" activist sent a letter to political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets, bchd.info reports.

07.06.2012 Hrodna: court conveyer at work again

Trials over the journalists and civil activists, detained at a picket against the introduction of Russian-language classes in the only school with the Polish language of instruction in Hrodna, started on 6 June.

07.06.2012 Malaryta authorities ban picket and ask about sources of its financing

Human rights defender Uladzimir Malei, who applied to the Malaryta District Executive Committee for authorization of a picket “For fair elections without Lukashenka”, received a negative answer, signed by the deputy head of the committee Vadzim Shpetny.