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Human Rights Defenders Are Again Denied Freedom of Movement

Submitted by admin on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 12:12

Today, on September 30th, 2011 at 3.20 a.m., one more representative of the International Observation Mission of the Committee on International Control over the Human Rights Situation in Belarus, Ukrainian civil society activist Volodymyr Senko was prevented from crossing the Belarusian state border. He is a member of the All-Ukrainian Youth Public Association “Foundation of Regional Initiatives”.

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EU issues statement on death sentences in Belarus - only country in Europe still applying capital punishment

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 19:45

he EU has issued a statement saying it is “deeply concerned” that two men facing the death sentence in Belarus do not appear to have had a right to judicial appeal. Dzmitry Kanavalaw and Uladzislaw Kavalyow were sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in Belarus on 30 November 2011.

In a statement at the OSCE, the EU said it was deeply worried about reports from independent human rights organisations about possible irregularities relating to the trial of the two men.

Aleh Volchak sentenced to 4 days of arrest

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 12:56

The human rights activist Aleh Volchak was detained outdoors on 27 January in Minsk and guarded to the Maskouski District Police Department of Minsk.

He was charged with using obscene language in public (Article 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences, “disorderly conduct”) and spent the week-end in custody in the delinquents’ isolation center in Akrestsin Street.

OMCT urges Belarusian authorities to release Aleh Volchak

Submitted by admin on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 14:09

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your intervention in the following situation in Belarus.

Description of the situation:

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