News on the topic: EU-Belarus
01.06.2015 Situation of political prisoners in Belarus worsening
FIDH and its member organisation in Belarus, Human Rights Center "Viasna," are deeply concerned about the deteriorating detention conditions of political prisoners Yury Rubtsou, Makalai Statkevich, Mikalai Dziadok and Ihar Alynevich.
25.05.2015 Ales Bialiatski: “Closer relations with Belarus not justifiable”
Europolitics, an authoritative Brussels-based media outlet, specializing in detailed coverage of events in the European Union, interviewed Ales Bialiatski on the eve of the Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga.
21.05.2015 Riga summit: Human rights defenders urge to release all political prisoners
The participants of the Civil Society Forum held in Riga as part of the Eastern Partnership summit have demanded to release all political prisoners in the EaP member states without delay, euroradio.fm reports.
21.05.2015 Ales Bialiatski: No changes for the better in Belarus
Donald Tusk is deceived, there are no improvements in Minsk.
20.05.2015 Ales Bialiatski urges EU to comply with clear value-based criteria in relations with regimes of Belarus and Azerbaijan (VIDEO)
On May 20, Ales Bialiatski, head of the HRC "Viasna" and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights, spoke at the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Conference in Riga.
20.05.2015 Eastern Partnership Civil Society Conference opens in Riga
The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Conference has opened today in Riga to address the issue of “Empowering Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership: Current Challenges and Future Scenarios”. The forum is attended by the chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights Ales Bialiatski.
13.05.2015 Belarus: MEPs launch initiative to defend human rights
May 12, 2015 ALDE Group Vice-President, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS (Liberal’s Movement of Lithuania) co-hosted in the European Parliament, a meeting with the relatives of six Belarusian political prisoners who came to share their experiences and talk about the human rights situation under Alexander Lukashenko’s regime.
12.05.2015 Hungarian politicians discuss human rights situation in Belarus with Ales Bialiatski
May 11 in Budapest, the with the head of the HRC "Viasna" Ales Bialiatski had a meeting with Mr. Gergely Prőehle, State Secretary for International and European Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities, and Péter Balázs, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the European Commissioner for Regional Development who currently heads the Center for EU Enlargement Studies.
17.04.2015 Miklós Haraszti: Lukashenka system needs Europe now (video)
The UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus, Miklós Haraszti, spoke yesterday at a meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament.
17.04.2015 Human rights activists urge members of intergovernmental organizations to visit Mikalai Statkevich
On April 17, the Legal Transformation Center and the Human Rights Center "Viasna" passed an urgent appeal to Mrs. Maira Mora, head of the European Union’s mission in Belarus, in connection with an increased pressure against political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich.
16.04.2015 Ales Bialiatski: No reasons to lift sanctions against Belarus, while there are political prisoners (video)
Ales Bialiatski, head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" and FIDH Vice President, participated today, along with the UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus Miklos Haraszti, in a meeting of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights. The human rights defender urged the EU to continue putting pressure on the Belarusian authorities.
15.04.2015 Ales Bialiatski meets Johannes Hahn ahead of his visit to Minsk
In the morning of April 15 in Brussels, the head of the HRC "Viasna" and FIDH Vice-President Ales Bialiatski met with European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Johannes Hahn.
15.04.2015 Belarusian CSOs present reports at UPR pre-session
On April 8-10, in Geneva, the UPR Pre-session took place to hear NGOs standings before the 2nd cycle of the Universal Periodic Review. BAJ representative Mikhail Yanchuk joined the Belarusian team to speak about freedom of expression issues in Belarus.
15.04.2015 Maryna Adamovich: EU politicians have been repeating the same mistake for 20 years
The Belarusian authorities increase pressure on political prisoners while holding a dialogue with the EU.
15.04.2015 The undying 'last' dictatorships of Europe
My name is Ales Bialiatski. If it had not been for the relentless mobilisation of the international community, the European Union in particular, I would be writing these words behind the bars of the Bobruisk high-security penal colony in south-eastern Belarus.
