News on the topic: appeal
17.07.2014 Khotsimsk police send apologies to activist, but fails to name internet detractors
On July 16, an opposition activist from the town of Khotsimsk, Valery Karankevich, finally received a response from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to his complaint to the Minister, in which he asked to cancel previous decisions by Mahiliou police chiefs, who ordered to close an administrative case opened after his statement was sent to the police.
16.07.2014 Hrodna Regional Court to hear appeal by freelance journalist Andrei Mialeshka on July 24
Andrei Mialeshka, a freelance journalist from Hrodna, continues his struggle for the right to impart information. The member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists has appealed against the decision of the court of Kastrychnitski district to the Hrodna Regional Court. The complaint will be considered on July 24.
16.07.2014 Kalinkavichy activist Dzianis Rabianok to complain to UN Human Rights Committee against unfair justice
Dzianis Rabianok, an activist of the United Civil Party from the town of Kalinkavichy, has been unable to find justice for more than a year and a half. Recently, he received a response to his complaint from the Supreme Court, which upheld the decision of the district court of Kalinkavichy.
26.06.2014 Appeal of Belsat Journalist Dismissed
The Judge of the Hrodna Regional Court dismissed the appeal of Ales' Zaleuski, staff journalist of Belsat who had been fined for "unlawful production of mass media products".
26.06.2014 Piotr Kuchura’s wife: Some progress in investigation of torture report
The ongoing efforts of Viasna’s human rights defenders and the wife of Piotr Kuchura, who is serving a sentence of imprisonment in Mahiliou penal colony No. 15, have finally brought certain results. It must be a complaint sent to the UN Human Rights Committee on behalf of the convict, who was reportedly poisoned while in prison, that made the investigating authorities react to torture reports.
25.06.2014 UN Human Rights Committee registers another complaint from Belarus
The UN Human Rights Committee has registered a complaint by a resident of the village of Buyany, Vitsebsk region, Leanid Zdrestau. The activist had to appeal to the international body for protection after the authorities did not authorize his picket, and all the courts where he was trying to appeal the ban, from the Kastrychnitski District Court of Vitsebsk to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus – sided with the authorities.
25.06.2014 Ex-candidate in Mahiliou seeks responsibility for hooligans who attacked him during local elections
Aliaksei Paulouski, a former candidate in this year’s local elections in Mahiliou, says that local police are trying to hush up the incident in all possible ways.
20.06.2014 Homel journalists sue Prosecutor’s Office over warnings
Two journalists in Homel are suing local Prosecutor’s Office. In early May, Mikalai Bianko and Yuliya Sivets were warned by the Homel Regional Prosecutor’s Office for working for foreign media without accreditation, Radio Racyja reports.
20.06.2014 Human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka: I’ll find online detractors
On June 19, Judge Anatol Sotnikau of Homel’s Chyhunachny District Court granted an appeal lodged by local human rights defender Leanid Sudalenka against an earlier decision by the District Police Department who closed a defamation case initiated by the human rights activist after unknown persons insulted and slandered against him and other activists of the Homel region on the website gomelbest.com.
19.06.2014 Khotsimsk Prosecutor’s Office again justifies detention of candidate
Valery Karankevich, a civil society activist from the town of Khotsimsk, received yesterday a response to his complaint from the Mahiliou Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
19.06.2014 Another complaint submitted to UN Human Rights Committee
Uladzimir Shyla, an opposition activist from the town of Salihorsk, has submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee to appeal against a ban on a Human Rights Day imposed by the executive officials back in December 2013.
18.06.2014 UN Human Rights Committee to consider complaint by Hrodna defender Viktar Sazonau
The UN Human Rights Committee admitted to consideration a complaint by Viktar Sazonau, a human rights defender from Hrodna, Radio Racyja reports.
17.06.2014 Homel human rights defender initiates prosecutor’s probe over language discrimination
Anatol Paplauny, a human rights activist from Homel, asks prosecutor Siarhei Zaitsau Gomel to inspect a local building center named “OMA”, where his complaint in the Belarusian language received a written answer in Russian. The store manager Natallia Urubleuskaya argues that “business correspondence and legal documents should be sent to the population in Russian”.
16.06.2014 Trade union activist unable to protect rights in court
On June 13, a court in Babruisk considered the lawsuit of a member of the Free Trade Union of Belarus, former employee of the TDiA plant (tractor parts and units), Viktar Osipau, whose employment contract was terminated on April 30. Despite petitions from the activist’s supervisor and his colleagues, Viktar Osipau has lost his job.
10.06.2014 The trial in defence of Kurapaty begins on 26 June
On 26 June at 15.00 in the Tsentralny district court of Minsk a judge Ivan Maiseichyk will begin a consideration of a civil case against the General Prosecutor's Office in defence of Kurapaty.
