The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

News for 11 Jan 2013

11.01.2013 Activist of United Civil Party gets warned

On 11 January the Brest Region Prosecutor's Office issued a UCP activist Alina Litvinchuk with an official warning about the inadmissibility of illegal work for foreign mass media.

11.01.2013 Will state official be punished for illegal use of labor?

The head of the "Mahiliouablselbud" hostels Pavel Shyshou illegally used the labor of workers for repairs in his own apartment in Shmidt Street, 24 in Mahiliou during the working hours.

11.01.2013 "Belposhta" tells "Hazeta Slonimskaya" to distribute circulation on its own

On the New Year eve the national unitary enterprise "Belposhta" received a collective address with the request the request to include the private newspaper "Gazeta Slonimskaya" in the state sale network of the national unitarian enterprise "Belsayuzdruk".

11.01.2013 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok is allowed to have only one meeting and one parcel a year

The political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok has been kept in the cell-type facility of Mahiliou for over a month already. He was transferred there from the Shklou colony, allegedly for repeated violation of the prison regulations.

11.01.2013 "Spy" Haidukou's friend interrogated at KGB again

Since the end of December 2012, an activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Illia Bahdanau has been the second suspect in the case of "high treason", initially brought only against the Navapolatski civil activist Andrei Haidukou.

11.01.2013 Mahiliou KGB reluctant to discriminate in the case of "Slavonic March" organization

The decision to authorize the "Slavonic March" is beyond our competence – this is the answer received by the deputy head of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Ihar Barysau from the deputy head of the Mahiliou Region KGB Bureau Savienka.

11.01.2013 Lithuanian Foreign Minister: What is more important: human rights or freight traffic in Klaipeda?

Foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius presented his own opinion on the Lithuania-Belarus relations in an interview on Morning Topic programme on 10 January. The minister thinks that “Belarusians are our partners. Both Lithuania and the EU can and should talk to them.” “Only in this case we will be able to see changes,” DELFI new agency quotes Linkevicius.

11.01.2013 Another police raid on Free Theater

Police officers visited the play Nearest and Dearest on the evening of 10 January. The information was spread by Free Theatre stage director Uladzimir Shcherban on his Facebook account.