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International Observation Mission about tragic events in Minsk on April 11

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 14:56

Yesterday on April 11, 2011 a bomb exploded in Minsk at Oktyabrskaya subway station, resulting in more than 10 killed and over 100 wounded.
International Observation Mission brings its sincere condolences to victims’ families and all those injured.

Statement by the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Promotion of Civil Society and Human Rights

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 17:40

Statement by the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Promotion of Civil Society and Human Rights оn the situation in Belarus 

January 25, 2011 

Conference of International NGOs of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 13:10

Conference of International NGOs of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution on the situation in Belarus including with reference to the role of the Committee of International Control and the International Observation Mission.  Alexandra Delemenchuk the member of the Secretariat of the Committee has participated in the conference.

http://www.coe.int/t/ngo/Articles/CONF_PLE_2011_RES2_Belarus_en.asp

Results of the first month of the International Committee of the International Observation Mission work. Press conference

Submitted by admin on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 15:16

January 27 in Minsk held a press conference on the results of the first month of the International Committee of the International Observation Mission to monitor the situation of human rights in Belarus.Press conference was held at the office of HRC Viasna, gathered 15 journalists of the Belarusian and foreign media.

Press-conference in the Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 14:49

Belarus: a month after December 19th: Tragedy for one country or for the whole Europe?

News of Belarus

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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