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Landmark UN decision: Ales Bialiatski’s detention arbitrary, release and compensation requested

Paris-Geneva, December 21, 2012. At its 64th session, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted decision A/HRC/WGAD/2012/39, published on November 23, in which it found that the detention of Mr. Ales Bialiatski, President of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Viasna” and FIDH Vice-President, was arbitrary, “being in contravention of article 20, paragraph 1, of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights [UDHR] and article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” (ICCPR).

Politics

Landmark UN decision: Ales Bialiatski’s detention arbitrary, release and compensation requested
2012 12 22
Paris-Geneva, December 21, 2012. At its 64th session, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted decision A/HRC/WGAD/2012/39, published on November 23, in which it fou >>

Valiantsin Stefanovich: "We did not just beat off the attacks in 2012 – we tried to act efficiently"
2012 12 20
Valiantsin Stefanovich, Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna", shares his professional assessment of the year. Noting the problems of the entire civil society, the deterioration of the a >>

With the one year anniversary of the conviction of Ales Bialiatski, Human Rights Centre “Viasna” faces relentless harassment
2012 11 26
Paris-Geneva, November 23, 2012 – One year after Ales Bialiatski’s conviction, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human >>

Ales Bialiatski awarded Paris’ Honorary Freedom
2012 10 17
Ales Bialiatski, the imprisoned leader of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights, has been bestowed Honorary Freedom (Citoyen d’honneur) >>

Weekly Analytical Report on Election Monitoring Results: July 30 – August 5
2012 08 10
July 30 – August 5 General Conclusions

Economics

Yury Chausov: "Investors are not enticed with commercials»
2011 08 04
To attract foreign capital, the Belarusian authorities are going to provide investors with a new service - insurance of political (noncommercial) risks. To do this in the near future Belarus plans to >>

Another “oil project” failed
2010 06 04
Hopes of Belarusian authorities of oil deliveries form Azerbaijan by lower price than from Russia most probably didn’t prove true. Otherwise, how the lack of loud claims of the main Belarusian visitor >>

Andrey Suzdaltsev: “Belarus never abandons participation in Customs Union”
2010 05 31
Last weekend, May 28-29, in Saint-Petersburg a meeting of Prime Ministers of the Customs Union countries took place. It will be recalled that three countries are the members of this union – Russia, Ka >>

Oil may day in Belarus
2010 05 02
In the beginning of May Belarus had two “oil” news which, as www.Euramost.org see it, are strangely connected. The first news came from the main supplier of energy resources to our country – Russia, a >>

Yaroslav Romanchuk: “We’ll keep on pumping our economics with credits…”
2010 01 03
How did Belarusian economics work in 2009 and what shall it expect this year? The reporter of www.Euramost.org talks to the economist Yaroslav Romanchuk about the issue.

Europe

Belarusian Museum in Vilnius
2012 11 26
Tradition of Belarusian museology in Vilnius originates from 1856, when the museum of antiquity was officially opened by Yaustafy Tyshkiewich on the basis of museum exhibits from Lahoysk which were br >>

I saw a non-free country ...
2012 07 31
Website www.euramost.org begins a series of publications about the impressions of Lithuanians in Belarus. "It's been almost a week after returning from a trip to Belarus, and while the memories are st >>

Andrey Kazakievich: Minsk will try to act out the scenario of 2008 to establish relations with the EU
2012 05 24
Belarus is waiting for "concrete steps" from the West. Official Minsk will not change its position on the question of "releasing political prisoners." Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko declare >>

People

Sigita Kupscite: Belarus may seem like another world, separated by physical space.
2012 09 25
www.euramost.org continues to acquaint its readers with the impressions of Lithuanian students from their trips to Belarus. The purpose of our trip was Belarus: we wanted to visit Grodno, old historic >>

Viasna launches campaign to monitor penal system
2012 05 24
The obvious coercive focus of the state policy growing in connection with one or another socially significant event is more than ever before emphasizing the urgency of the issue of the country’s penit >>

Ales Bialiatski's rights to correspodence unlawfully restricted
2012 05 06
In the middle of April human rights defender Anastasiya Loika sent two letters of A4 format to Ales Bialiatski, the head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" who is serving a prison term in corrective >>

Human Rights House Network: Appeal for immediate release and full rehabilitation of all political prisoners
2012 04 26
Arbitrary detention is used in Belarus against political opponents and persons exercising their freedoms of conscience, opinion and expression. The use of arbitrary detention as a tool of systematic r >>

Pavel Sapelka is nominated for Hrant Dink awardPavel Sapelka is nominated for Hrant Dink award
2012 04 12
Amnesty International Germany stated the intention to nominate Pavel Sapelka for the International Hrant Dink Award, presented to people who work for a world free of discrimination, racism, and violen >>

Regions

Brest human rights defender appeals restrictions on peaceful assembly at Constitutional Court
2012 05 24
Brest human rights defender Uladzimir Vialichkin has lodged a complaint with the Constitutional Court, appealing a decision by the city’s executive committee that imposed inadmissible restrictions on >>

Lawyer inquiry submitted to Bahusheusk tuberculosis hospital
2012 03 04
The Vitsebsk coordinator of the steering committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Tatsiana Seviarynets is worried about the state of one of the patients, Valery Hancharenka, who is currently ke >>

Ales Bialiatski transferred to Babruisk penal colony
2012 02 18
The imprisoned leader of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski has been convoyed to penal colony No. 2 in the town of Babruisk, Mahiliou region, to serve his 4.5-year term for alleged tax e >>

Orsha residents try to protect historical heritage
2011 05 14
Orsha residents collect signatures for restoration of the cloister constructed at the end of the 18th century, one of the few historical objects which survived wars and vandal acts. However, recently >>

Mazyr KGB interrogate independent observer Tseliapun
2011 02 28
On 24 February KGB Mazyr officer Vasil Prykhodzka interrogated local pro-dem activist Uladzimir Tseliapun, who had maintained election observation during the 2010 presidential campaign.

Activists and journalist summoned to KGB
2010 12 29
The KGB keeps harassing civil and political activists by summoning them to interrogations in the “mass riots” criminal case.

Elections 2010 in Homiel – electorate’s moods
2010 10 18
Homiel is one of the most Russified cities in Belarus. It’s almost impossible to hear Belarusian language in the streets of this town. As usual only opposition speaks Belarusian. But nevertheless ther >>

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