Three Brest activists Iryna Laurouskaya, Raman Kisliak and Dzianis Turchyniak have submitted their individual complaints to the UN Human Rights Committee. Continue reading »

According to a Brest human rights activist Raman Kisliak, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has registered an individual complaint by a For Freedom movement member Inha Abramava. The complaint was submitted on 22 December 2008, after a number of unsuccessful appeals against the activist’s detention in Brest Leninski Police Department Temporary Detention Facility, where the woman was reportedly subjected to sex discrimination, which is prohibited by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Continue reading »

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The Brest Viasna human rights organization has been denied state registration for the fourth time, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports quoting local human rights activist and one of Brest Viasna’s leaders Uladzimer Malei.
In its official reply, the General Department of Justice of Brest Regional Executive Committee says that the applicants failed to provide a valid duty payment certificate.
Mr.Malei says they are going to appeal the decision at Brest Regional Court.

Source: www.spring96.org

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On 5 May at about 10.40 a.m. the head of the entrepreneurs’ organization Perspective Anatol Shumchanka and his deputies Viktar Chaikouski and Volha Krumina were detained by the police in Kasmanautau Strip while getting out of the car.
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Celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration in Belarus was marked with mass (and in some cases, quite rude) detentions of human rights defenders and civil activists. Continue reading »

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On 1 July a group of members of the NGO ‘Stary Horad’ (liquidated by the Belarusian authorities) addressed the UN Human Rights Committee with individual complaints. Continue reading »

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An activist of the ‘For Freedom’ movement Raman Kisliak addressed Brest city executive committee for authorization of the ‘March of petty hooligans’, which he intended to hold on 30 July. According to the human rights activist, the aim of this action was to draw the public attention to the demands to stop the arrests of democratic activists on false accusations in petty hooliganism. Continue reading »

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In the afternoon of 6 October the road policemen of Stoubtsy district police department stopped the car of the deputy chairperson of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Tatsiana Hatsura on the highway Brest-Minsk. Continue reading »

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