Inha Abramava tries to find out which detention centers have women among their staff
Human rights derender Raman Kisliak and Inha Abramava
Inha Abramava, a civic activist from
Brest, applied to the Minister of Interior with the request to
provide information which detention centers of Belarus have women
among their workers.
In 2007 she was detained for tying blue
ribbons on trees and drain pipes on the eve of the European March and
sentenced to 5 days of arrest by the Leninski District Court of Brest
on charges of disorderly conduct.
She served the arrest in a
detention center where she faced with adverse discrimination, as
there were only men among the staff. Abramava tried to appeal the
discrimination and the prison discrimination after her release from
the detention center, but achieved no results. Having depleted the
internal remedies, she applied to the UN Committee on the Elimination
of Discrimination against Women. The discrimination against Inha
Abramava was recognized and Belarus was advised to train women as
staff workers of the detention center. The Brest detention center
took this piece of advice into consideration.
According to
Raman Kisliak, there's still no information in which detention
centers women work, except for the Brest detention center, and
discrimination must be eliminated in all of them.
