News for January 2014
10.01.2014 Kasia Kamotskaya's live performance banned in Minsk
The situation with the concert of the well-known Belarusian rock singer Kasia Kamotskaya in Minsk remains unknown the day before the show, the website tuzin.fm reports.
10.01.2014 Foreign diplomats send New Year congratulations to Ales Bialiatski
The imprisoned head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” received congratulations on Christmas from the heads of the embassies of the EU member states and the USA. Ales Bialiatski mentioned that in a letter to his colleagues on 7 January.
10.01.2014 Babruisk and Mahiliou authorities determined places banned for signature pickets
Babruisk City Executive Committee has published a list of places prohibited for picketing for the purpose of collecting signatures for nomination of candidates for the local elections. The list of places remains unchanged when compared to the last election, and hence creates the same uncomfortable conditions for collecting signatures: pickets are prohibited in almost all places of Babruisk which are popular with the public.
10.01.2014 Initiator of medics' petition forced to take unpaid leave
Representatives of the health care committee and the emergency station met with the initiator of the campaign.
10.01.2014 Haradok: political activist Leanid Autukhou detained due to anonimous denunciation
In the Haradok District Police Department Mr. Autukhovich was showed a letter signed by the word "Anonymous". The letter stated that he was preparing a protest action in the city. As a result the BPF activist was held at the DPD for three years, until the departure from Haradok of hte regional authorities who came there to meet with disgruntled local businessmen.
10.01.2014 Homel: fine for anti-alcoholization picket
January 9 Tsentralny District Court Judge Alena Tsalkova issued a verdict on the administrative case against the coordinator of the civil initiative "Stop Drinking – Start Living!" Dzmitry Karashkou. He was sentenced to a fine of 10 basic units (1.3 million rubles) for holding an anti-alcohol picket.
10.01.2014 Liudmila Kuchura: “The administration of the penitentiary hurried to transfer my husband to prison”
December 30, 2013 prisoner Piatro Kuchura, who was serving a sentence in penal colony No. 15 who disturbed the administration defending his rights, was transferred to the maximum security prson No. 4 in Mahiliou for three years.
10.01.2014 Brest Regional Court upholds picket ban
The panel of judges on civil cases of the Brest Regional Civil Court upheld the decision of the Biaroza District Court, which upheld the picket ban, issued to human rights defenders Siarhei Rusetski and Tamara Shchapiotkina by the local authorities.
09.01.2014 Prison administration doesn't pass medical parcel to political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich
According to Lidzia Avtukhovich, she sent her son the needed medication back on December 15. However, on December 26 she received a letter from him where he wrote that he still hadn't been handed over the medicines. "Sending a parcel from Vaukavyst to Hrodna may not take longer than two days”, said Lidziya Autukhovich. “ I'm very worried about why he delayed parcel . And I still do not have any information confirming its receipt.”
09.01.2014 Protesting medics meet with officials of Minsk City Executive Committee
A commission has been set up at the health committee of Minsk Executive Committee to consider the demands of the ambulance in Minsk, put forward in an appeal to the government.
09.01.2014 Brest: court refuses to consider appeal concerning the formation of Brest City Election Commission
In his answer to local human rights defenders and civil society activists Judge Anatol Litouchyk explained that the case was outside the jurisdiction of the Brest Regional Court.
09.01.2014 Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski sends greetings to Baranavichy human rights defenders and civil society activists
Political prisoner Ales Bialiatski sent color postcards and congratulated Baranavichy human rights defenders Viachaslau Bolbat and Siarhei Housha and social activists Henadz Artsymenia, Anzhalika Kambalava and Viktar Syrytsa on the New Year and Christmas.
09.01.2014 Presidium of Mahiliou Regional Court reversed the verdict on the case of “Volny Horad”
On December 27, 2013 The Presidium of the Mahiliou Regional Court decided to annul the verdict of the Krychau District Court for June 17, 2013 concerning the claim of Cherykau PMK- 280 to the printed mass media “Volny Horad” and its journalists and terminate the proceedings. Yesterday the journalists received a copy of the verdict by mail.
09.01.2014 Salihorsk District Election Commission tried to hold a closed sitting and threatened election observer
January 8 long-term observer of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Leanid Markhotka visited the sitting of Salihorsk District Election Commission, at which the electoral teams to collect signatures for nomination of candidates were registered.
09.01.2014 “Young Front” activist expelled from college for political motives
Unknown men in civilian clothes insisted on the expulsion of the activist.
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