News for 8 Jan 2015
08.01.2015 Elena Tonkacheva challenges her expulsion from Belarus (updated)
Today, January 8, the Pershamaiski District court of Minsk considers the appeal of human rights activist Elena Tonkacheva, Chair of the Center for Legal Transformation Lawtrend, who challenges the decision of the Pershamaiski District Police Department about her expulsion from Belarus.
08.01.2015 Ministry of Information says it has no powers to interfere in professional activities of the media
Homel human rights activists Maryia Klimovich and Ales Yauseyenka have received a response to their appeal to the Information Ministry. The applicants asked the Ministry to inform the editors of state owned media in any way possible about the inadmissibility of indicating the nationality of perpetrators of crimes and consciously shaping the image of a "criminal nation".
08.01.2015 Minsk believers not allowed to church for Orthodox Christmas mass
As reported by a coordinator of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Valeryia Charamortsava, in the morning of January 7, the police refused to let Orthodox believers in the St. Spirit Cathedral.
08.01.2015 Ryhor Kastusiou can't receive motivating part of the verdict
January 5, the BPF Deputy Head Ryhor Kostuseufiled a preliminary application with the Mahiliou Regional Court against the verdict of the Shklou District Court of December 23, 2014, according to which he was punished with a fine for participation in the Memorial Day of the Kalinouski rebels in Svislachon October 26, 2014.
08.01.2015 Ales Bialiatski: free speech is killed in many different ways
January 8, Head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski and his colleagues came to the French Embassy in Minsk, to lay flowers and light a candle in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in the editorial office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which took place the day before in Paris.
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