News for 16 Jul 2021
16.07.2021 We demand the immediate release of the volunteers of the Country for Life Foundation. Charity is not a crime!
Joint statement of Belarusian human rights community
16.07.2021 Two more people sentenced for coordination during protests
On 15 July the trial of political prisoners Mikalai Shemetau and Anastasia Tarelkа, accused of organizing and active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order (part 1 and part 2 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code), started at the Centralny District Court of Minsk for participation and coordination during the Sunday marches in August and September 2020.
16.07.2021 11 students and university teacher convicted for organizing student protests
The verdict in the "student case" has been passed today. 11 defendants sentenced to two and a half years in prison, one - to two years of imprisonment.
16.07.2021 Members of Parliament from Portugal, Ireland and the UK adopt political prisoners from Belarus
As part of Libereco’s #WeStandBYyou solidarity campaign, Isabel Santos (European Parliament, Partido Socialista, Portugal), Frances Fitzgerald (European Parliament, Fine Gael, Ireland) and Baroness Massey of Darwen (House of Lords, Labour Party, UK) are taking over godparenthoods of political prisoners in Belarus.
16.07.2021 Human Rights House and UN representatives condemn new repressions in Belarus
The United Nations Country Team in Belarus (UNCT) issued a statement informing that it has been following with great concern reports of detentions of civil society representatives and searches in the offices of a wide range of civil society organizations, charity projects and private apartments of individual activists.
16.07.2021 Third day of crackdown on journalists and civil society organisations in Belarus
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" continues to collect facts of political persecution across the country on July 16. For the third day in a row, security forces attacked human rights defenders, journalists, activists, and cultural and social activists.
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