16.01.2012 Corrections department does not care about UN recommendations

The Corrections Department of the Interior Affairs Ministry of Belarus finds it «unnecessary» to follow the UN recommendations.

12.01.2012 Court turns down appeal of Uladzimir Marozau against smothering by police

On 12 January the Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk considered the appeal of disabled Uladzimir Marozau against the refusal of the Pershamaiski District Procuracy of Minsk to instigate a criminal case against the policemen who had smothered the man during a peaceful protest action.

06.01.2012 Consideration of appeal of invalid Marozau postponed to 12 January

The consideration of Uladzimir Marozau’s appeal against the refusal to instigate a criminal case concerning an unlawful assault of police officers on him, was postponed to 12 January due to the failure of the procuracy to timely pass the case materials to the Pershamaiski District Court. The trial will start at 9.45 a.m. on 12 January.

20.12.2011 FEMEN activists beaten and shaved bald in Belarus

Preliminary information appeared about whereabouts of the Ukrainians, who disappeared in Belarus yesterday.

As charter97.org website has learned, the girls managed to call their friends and say they were in the Yelsk district of the Homel region. They say they were beaten and left there. Their money and documents were seized.

12.12.2011 Vitsebsk: trial of “European Belarus” activists

Ivan Salokhin and Uladzislau Varanetski were detained in the evening of 11 December, while trying to hang out the banner “Freedom to political prisoners!” on a bridge.

09.12.2011 Biaroza: police are free to beat pensioners

Hanna Kavalevich, a pensioner from Biaroza, received a answer from the head of the Brest Region Police Department, in which she asked to give a legal assessment to actions of the officer of an officer of the Biaroza District Police Department Yakau Samasiuk and the convoy of the paddy wagon who worked at 7 p.m. on 13 July (during the dispersal of a silent protest action) in Biaroza, and tell how the direct participants of her beating were punishment.

06.12.2011 UN Committee against Torture insists on investigation of tortures in Belarus

The UN Committee against Torture has released recommendations for the Belarusian authorities after discussing the situation in Belarus in Geneva on 11 and 14 November. Two reports, an official governmental one on Belarus’s fulfilling the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and the other one prepared by human rights activists. Following the two hearings, the Committee drew up recommendations for the authorities of Belarus, BelaPAN news agency reports.

30.11.2011 Detained “Platforma” activist brutally beaten in police department

Yury Chyhilejchyk, an activist of “Platforma” informational outreach group, was beaten beyond recognition.

29.11.2011 Belarus does not satisfy UN Committee against Torture

In its Concluding Observations, the Committee against Torture makes a first harsh observation of the dialogue: Belarus’ delayed report prevented the experts for almost a decade from analysing the implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

26.11.2011 UN Panel Criticizes Belarus Over Prisoner Torture

A UN human rights panel has criticized Belarus over what it called "numerous and consistent allegations of widespread torture and ill-treatment of detainees."

24.11.2011 Police atrocity in Mahilyou

An activist of Moladz BNF Andrei Padalyak from Babrujsk has suffered from terrible police outrage upon personal dignity in Maholyou.

22.11.2011 Police refute information on mass detentions in Krupki

The regional police also doubt the information that riot policemen beat people.

15.11.2011 Trial on Filip Kirdun’s case to continue at 9 a.m. on 16 November

The trial of Filip Kirdun, charged with the use of obscene language towards police officers, continued today at the Frunzenski District Court of Minsk. Judge Liudmila Lapo agreed to question policemen Aliaksandr Birchanka and Siarhei Dounar, who had taken fingerprints from the defendant. They stated that he had called them “Lukashenka’s lackeys”, and police officer Sviatlana Kunitskaya, who is in charge of the procedure of dactylography in the Frunzenski District Police Department of Minsk, stated that Filip’s parents had paid a visit to the police department on 14 November and threatened to her.

15.11.2011 Report about torture in Belarus heard at UN

Andrei Bandarenka, a former political prisoner, leader of “Platforma”, has addressed the UN Human Rights Committee with a report about tortures in Belarusian prisons.

14.11.2011 Fingerprinted, beaten, imprisoned

Another egregious case of reasonless police cruelty and lawlessness of were told by the Kirdun family from Minsk, visitors of charter97.org website.