Applications for pickets for release of political prisoners, filed by human rights activists within the framework of the Day of Solidarity with Belarusian civil society, were turned down by the local authorities in Navapolatsk, Vitsebsk, Homel, Mozyr, Rechytsa, Zhodzina, Barysau, Baranavichy, Smarhon and Mahiliou.
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On 8 August, Rosemary Thomas, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, paid a visit to the office as well.
At about 10 a.m. Mikalai Pakhabau, Chair of the Barysau town organization of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry, was stopped by the road police near the town of Smaliavichy.
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The human rights defender Aleh Matskevich (in the photo) has spent more than a year looking for a decision of the Barysau District Executive Committee About the order of holding mass events in the Barysau district.
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Representatives of the Borisovskiye novosti independent weekly keep appealing the search at the newspaper’s office carried out by Barysau police on 10 January.
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On January 10, 2011 searches happened at the office of an independent news paper “Barysauskiya Naviny” and at the residential place of the chief editor of the news paper A. U. Bukas. The searches were executed in the frame of the criminal case of the so-called “rioting” connected with provocation during the peaceful assembly against election fraud of December 19, 2010 at the Nezalezhnasti sq in Miensk. Continue reading »
In October 2010 Aleh Matskievich and Maryna Statkievich sent complaints to UN HRC on Republic of Belarus’s violation of articles 19 and 21 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (about the fact of refusal of peaceful assembly). Continue reading »
A number of Barysau human rights activists have lodged a complaint with the Barysau district executive committee, appealing against administrative restrictions imposed by the local authorities on street actions locations.