News for June 2015
18.06.2015 Freelance journalist in Homieĺ appeals fine
On June 18, journalist Natallia Kryvashei, who received the maximum possible penalty (a fine of 50 basic units, or 9 mln rubles), filed an appeal against the ruling of the court of Centralny district. The freelance journalist does not agree with the punishment for “illegal production of media products” without accreditation for the TV channel Belsat.
18.06.2015 Activists from Mikaševičy fined for distributing leaflets about political prisoners
According to a decision of the administrative commission of the Mikaševičy city executive committee, Vital Kalinouski, member of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada), has been punished by a fine of three basic units.
18.06.2015 Activist in Slonim fined over anti-alcohol posters
On June 18, the administrative commission of the Slonim district executive committee fined local opposition activist Ivan Bedka 180,000 rubles for pasting anti-alcohol posters at public transport stops.
18.06.2015 Information Ministry Blocks Website Kyky.org
Access to the website has been restricted according to point 1.3 of article 38 of the Law on Mass Media – the website could damage the national interests of the Republic of Belarus.
18.06.2015 Committee against Torture resumes work in Grozny
The Russian human rights organization Committee against Torture, whose office in Grozny was destroyed by unknown assailants on June 3, will resume work in a new location, the former apartment of Natalya Estemirova, an employee of the Memorial human rights NGO, who was kidnapped and murdered in Chechnya in 2009.
17.06.2015 Viciebsk human rights activist wants parliamentary hearings on activity therapy centers
“At present, it is not advisable to initiate the issue of holding parliamentary hearings on the topic “The results of enforcement of the Law “On procedure and conditions of sending citizens to medical and labor dispensaries and the conditions of their detention in them,” says Andrei Navumovich, chairman of the Standing Committee for Human Rights, National Relations and Mass Media of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly, in his reply to human rights activist Leanid Svetsik.
17.06.2015 Human rights activists on mission in Ukraine: We accumulate invaluable experience of humanitarian work
The first shift of Belarusian volunteers as part of the Human Rights Humanitarian Mission in Ukraine has left the team of the public initiative Station Kharkiv. They were replaced by two more Belarusians – Aleh Zhlutka and Marharyta Krasikava.
16.06.2015 ODIHR ready to work closely with Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections
On June 16, coordinators of the independent observation campaign “Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections” met with representatives of the OSCE ODIHR, which are on an official visit in Minsk.
16.06.2015 Guarantor of Constitution protects only interests of handful of officials
The Belarusian judicial system does not depend on the law, but depends on the president, and it is only him, Aliaksandr Lukashenka who can influence the fate of people who have become victims of lawlessness and arbitrariness from courts and prosecuting authorities. Guided by this logic, 37 people from different cities of Belarus sent in late April a collective petition to the President, which has not yet been answered by head of state.
16.06.2015 BCD activist detained by KGB in Miadzel
The secret services wanted to know “who finances the opposition”.
16.06.2015 Human rights activist sues state TV company
Human rights defender Pavel Levinau has lodged a lawsuit against the National State TV and Radio Company (Belteleradyjokampanija), calling it “a public authority violating the right to freedom of expression”. He asks the Pieršamajski District Court of Minsk to order the media giant to provide him with airtime on the Belarus 1 TV channel.
15.06.2015 Human Rights Humanitarian Mission in Ukraine: Thousands of immigrants in migration service in Kharkiv
Volunteers of the Human Rights Humanitarian Mission in Ukraine, who are now working in Kharkiv, report that the number of displaced persons from conflict-hit areas continues to increase.
15.06.2015 Pavel Sapelka: Practice of hearings in closed penal facilities flawed
On June 2, lawyer Pavel Sapelka wrote to the Supreme Court to clarify the procedure of access to mobile hearings on prison premises, and indicate what measures were planned to implement by the Supreme Court in order to arrange court sessions within colonies and prisons in compliance with guarantees of a fair trial and the principle of transparency.
14.06.2015 Baranavičy: May Day picket ban to be considered by Brest Regional Court
Judicial board on civil cases of the Brest Regional Court will consider the case regarding the ban on the May Day picket in Baranavičy.
13.06.2015 Mikalai Statkevich: "They tried to persuade me to refuse from solitary confinement”
Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich expressed his precautions concerning the presidential campaign of the Republic of Belarus (which will be launched quite soon) in a letter to Bialyničy activist Barys Vyrvich.
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