News for March 2016
11.03.2016 Court in Minsk fines participants in entrepreneurs’ rally
On March 10, the Court of Minsk’s Centraĺny district fined several opposition activists for their involvement in a rally staged on February 22 to protest new trading rules for market vendors.
10.03.2016 PACE insists on moratorium on the death penalty in Belarus
“A world without the death penalty will not be weaker, it will only improve,” said Andrea Rigoni, representative of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, in his speech at today’s international conference in Minsk.
10.03.2016 EU Special Representative for Human Rights meets with Belarusian human rights activists
The Minsk office of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” hosted yesterday a meeting of representatives of a number of Belarusian human rights organizations with Mr. Stavros Lambrinidis, EU Special Representative for Human Rights, as well as Ms. Andrea Wiktorin, head of the EU Delegation in Minsk, and the EU Mission’s employee on political issues Ms. Renata Wrobel.
09.03.2016 Activists charged over picket in support of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko
Twelve people will stand trials on administrative charges of involvement in a picket staged today outside the Russian embassy in Minsk to show support for Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian helicopter pilot accused of murdering two Russian journalists.
04.03.2016 Mass Grave near Viciebsk: WWII or NKVD executions?
Viciebsk activists fail to get the results of exhumation of people’s remnants from the mass grave found near the village of Khaisy, Viciebsk region.
03.03.2016 Human Rights Defenders Offer Aid to CEC to Implement OSCE/ODIHR Recommendations
Experts of the campaign Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections worked out recommendations aimed to increase publicity and transparency at the future parliamentary elections.
03.03.2016 Death convict’s brother subject to pressure in a colony
Aliaxei Khmialeuski complains that he has been subject to unbearable pressure in Navasadskaya correctional colony No14 after death sentence was passed against his brother.
02.03.2016 Sport For Rights: Another human rights lawyer at risk of disbarment in Azerbaijan
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the other undersigned members of the Sport for Rights coalition express serious concern regarding the on-going disciplinary case against Yalchin Imanov, a prominent human rights lawyer in Azerbaijan.
02.03.2016 In the Beating Case, Fine against Journalist Upheld on Appeal
On March 1, the Minsk City Court, judge Valer Kamisarau considered the appeal filed by TUT.by correspondent Pavel Dabravolski.
02.03.2016 Viasna publishes report on monitoring places of detention in Belarus
The Human Rights Center “Viasna” has analyzed the situation in places of detention in Belarus and prepared a report on the results of monitoring in 2015.
01.03.2016 Lithuanian Constitutional Court receives alumni of International Law in Advocacy program
On 27-28 February, international experts joined ILIA (International Law in Advocacy) program lawyers from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine to discuss the application of UN and Council of Europe human rights mechanisms.
01.03.2016 Human Rights Situation in Belarus: February 2016
There were no new politically motivated criminal cases during the month, which is a continuation of the general trend of reducing the level of repression in the country observed since last August.
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