News for 20 Aug 2012

Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders strongly condemns harassment of Ms. Tatsiana Revyaka

20.08.2012 Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders strongly condemns harassment of Ms. Tatsiana Revyaka

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Belarus.

20.08.2012 Court on a new criminal case of Dashkevich will be held on August 28

Closed session will be held on August 28 in the penal colony № 13 of Glubokoe city. This was reported by the press-service of the "Young Front".

Minsk observers face obstacles

20.08.2012 Minsk observers face obstacles

A number of constituency election commissions of Minsk have not allowed observers representing the Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections campaign monitoring the procedures of signature verification and checking the papers submitted by nominees.

Homel police detain distributor of independent press

20.08.2012 Homel police detain distributor of independent press

Aliaksandr Protska, distributor of the Novy Chas independent newspaper, has been detained by Homel police outside the city’s central railway station at about 9 a.m.

20.08.2012 Political prisoner Prakapenka goes on hunger strike in punishment cell

Artsiom Prakapenka, political prisoner serving his 7-year sentence in the penal colony of Mahiliou, has declared a hunger strike after he had been placed in a punishment cell on 15 August, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.

20.08.2012 Svetlahorsk journalist prevented from surveying public opinion on construction of pulpmill

On 17 August, Svetlahorsk police did not allow independent journalist Larysa Shchyrakova covering public consultations on the construction of a pulpmill, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.

20.08.2012 Syarhey Kavalenka Placed in Prison's Medical Unit

It happened after the political prisoner had spent 16 days in a disciplinary cell.

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