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General procuracy to human rights defenders: no grounds to consider Your appeal

2012 2012-08-07T17:34:05+0300 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en https://spring96.org./files/images/sources/henprakuratura.jpg The Human Rights Center “Viasna” The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

The General Procuracy answered the address of the heads of a number of human rights organizations concerning the problem of preventive detentions and administrative punishment of civil activists and representatives of youth opposition group by sending a letter to the E-mail address of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”.

Representatives of the human rights organizations of Belarus, including the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, the Committee to Protect the Repressed “Solidarity”, the Center for Legal Transformation and he Center for Human Rights had filed a joint address to the Gneral Prosecutor of the Republic of Belarus Aliaksandr Kaniuk and the head of the Supreme Court Valiantsin Sukala with the request to meet with them for discussing the situation around unlawful preventive detentions of civil activists and representatives of youth opposition groups, abolition of this unlawful practice and punishment of the perpetrators.

The head of the department of supervision over observance of rights and freedoms of citizens M. Papova confined herself to a bureaucratic come-off by writing the following to A. Hulak and others: “Taking into account that You are not a person who was legally delegated the right to represent the people mentioned in the appeal, there are no sufficient grounds to consider Your appeal on its merits”.

M. Papova refers to Article 2.16 of the Process-Executive Code of Administrative Offenses, according to which the right to appeal process actions or ruling concerning cases of administrative offenses belongs to defendants, victims, their legal representatives, witnesses, experts, interpreters and other participants of administrative proceedings.

Other than that, representation of interests of citizens during applications to state institutions and other organizations is conducted on the basis of a legal act of the Republic of Belarus or an act of an empowered state body or a self-government body or a warrant of attorney composed in conformity with requirements of the civil legislation of the Republic of Belarus.

However, human rights defenders didn't seek to represent interests of citizens in any administrative trials, they just asked for a meeting with the Prosecutor General and the head of the Supreme Court with the aim to discuss the situation, get the unlawful practice stopped and the perpetrators punished. The procuracy hasn't given a substantial answer, though.

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