Belarusian government appeals individual communications of Belarusian citizens at UN

Submitted by admin on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 16:26

The Belarusian authorities disagree with the registration of 56 individual communications of Belarusian citizens at the UN Human Rights Committee.

As stated to BelaPAN by human rights defender Raman Kisliak, the Belarusian government states that the individual communications were registered in violation of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In particular, they stated that according to it the Committee’s procedures, methods of work and precedent law mustn’t be taken into consideration during the registration of communications, that’s why they are going to consider the decisions adopted on these communications as invalid.

According to Raman Kisliak, the UN Human Rights Committee was established for supervision over the implementation of ICCPR and the Optional Protocol by the member states, whereas now Belarus demands that the Committee refused from all its previous work and replaced its explanation of ICCPR with an interpretation given by one of the states.

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The website charter97.org announced winners of the National Human Rights Award 2014

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/30/2014 - 21:00

This year's winners of the Viktar Ivashkevich National Human Rights Award are:

Vasil Parfiankou

The life of Vasil Parfiankou is a demonstration of how dissidents are treated in Belarus. Parfiankou has been jailed three times in the last four years for his active citizenship.

Belarussian political prisoners need European Parliament support

Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/02/2014 - 00:00

Today, on the occasion of the visit of Ales Bialiatski, a recently released political activist and Chairman of the Belarus Human Rights Centre "Viasna", Petras Auštrevičius MEP (Liberal Movement, Lithuania) and Hans Van Baalen MEP (VVD, Netherlands) commented:

Prominent Belarusian Rights Activist Released

Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/21/2014 - 00:00

Prominent Belarusian human rights activist Ales Byalyatski has arrived in Minsk after he was released from prison.

He was welcomed at a Minsk train station by his wife Natalya Pinchuk and a group of supporters on June 21.

Byalyatski told reporters he was released under an amnesty law that came into force on June 21. The rights activist also that the domestic and international support he had received heped in getting him released early.