News on the topic: forced disappearance
30.08.2012 International Day of the Disappeared marked today
International Day of the Disappeared is marked by the world community on August 30. The date appeared in the United Nations’ calendar in 2011.
06.08.2012 Human rights defender reminds Maladechna citizens about Ales Bialiatski
As the city authorities prohibited Maladechna dweller Eduard Balanchuk to hold a picket at the central square, he walked there wearing a T-shirt “Freedom to Ales Bialiatski” in order to remind about the anniversary of the arrest of the well-known human rights defender. The police didn't pose any pretensions to him.
01.08.2012 Location of deputy director of “Platform” remains unknown
The deputy head of the informational and educational institution “Platform” Alena Krasouskaya-Kaspiarovich stopped answering the phone in the evening of 31 July. As stated to belaruspartisan.info by the “Platform” director Andrei Bandarenka, she went away for a meeting and no one has seen her since that time.
06.07.2012 Prosecutor demands a year of penal labor for book distributor
The sentence will be pronounced in October District Court on 10 July. Book distributor Ales Yaudakha accused of doing business illegally has informed Euroradio about it.
27.04.2012 Belarusian MFA resists country’s accession to UN Convention on Enforced Disappearance
There is no need in Belarus’ signature of the UN International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, since its provisions are already enshrined in the domestic laws, says an official reply from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received by Mrs. Sviatlana Zavadskaya, the widow of Dzmitry Zavadski.
13.04.2012 Siarhei Kavalenka stops hunger-strike
RFE/RL learned it from the father of the political prisoner, Aliaksandr Kavalenka, who visited his son in the psychiatric hospital in Minsk.
09.04.2012 Forensic expertise confirms beating of Siarhei Kavalenka
According to doctor of the psychiatric department of "Vitsba-3" penal colony, the state of Kavalenka's health remains unchanged.
28.03.2012 Zavadski’s widow, HR defender campaign for ratification of International Convention for Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
Sviatlana Zavadskaya, widow of TV cameraman Dzmitry Zavadski who disappeared and was later murdered in 2000, her current husband Siarhei Bakhun, as well as Brest human rights defender Raman Kisliak, have addressed the Belarusian Council of Ministers with a demand to sign the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, and to urge the Belarusian Parliament to ratify the treaty.
16.01.2012 Investigation into 1999 disappearance of Yury Zakharanka prolonged once again
The years-long investigation into the 1999 disappearance of former Interior Minister Yury Zakharanka has been prolonged until March 24, human rights defender Aleh Volchak told BelaPAN on Monday.
23.12.2011 Polish NGOs Issue Statement on FEMEN Action in Minsk
Polish NGOs acting in favour of Belarus assembled in the Belarus Working Group at the Zagranica Group have issued a statement regarding the abduction of the Ukrainian organization FEMEN by KGB.
21.11.2011 Investigation into Yury Zakharanka case extended
The investigation into the case of former Interior Minister and opposition leader Yury Zakharanka, who was forcibly abducted in May 1999, has been extended until 24 December 2011, the Narodnaya Volya newspaper reports.
26.09.2011 Brest city executive committee denied sanction for march against enforced disappearance
Brest city executive committee has denied authorization for holding a march against forcible abductions.
16.09.2011 September 16 - anniversary of disappearance of Krasouski and Hanchar
Opposition politician Victar Hanchar and businessman Anatol Krasouski disappeared with no traces on this very day in 1999 in Minsk.
30.08.2011 30 August – International Day of the Disappeared
The International Day of the Disappeared is an annual commemoration day created to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives. The impulse for the day came from the Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared (Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos, or FEDEFAM), an NGO founded in 1981 in Costa Rica as an association of local and regional groups actively working against secret imprisonment and forced disappearances in a number of Latin-American countries.
28.07.2011 Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians regrets over Belarusian Parliament's formal replies on disappearances of Hanchar and Krasouski
At its 134th session held in Geneva on 4-7 July, the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union adopted a decision on the case of Viktar Hanchar's disappearance, reiterating its wish to ascertain the views and response of the authorities on a number of questions.
