October 9, Mozyr activist Uladzimir Tseliapun appealed to the Mozyr Inter-District Prosecutor’s Office asking to assess the legality and validity of the judgment on his complaint. The reason for the appeal was the doubt that the judgment issued by the Mozyr District Court was competent, fair and impartial.
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Salihorsk city organization of the “Belarusian Language Society” has filed a second appeal to the State Property Committee demanding to bring the names of signs on the buildings of Salihorsk in line with the Law “On the names of geographical objects.”
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At the end of June, the Secretariat of the Belarusian Language Society named after Frantsysk Skaryna appealed to the House of Representatives with a proposal to return the Belarusian language to national legislation.
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Jan Lapicki
Having created a problem, the executive committee has been unable to solve it on its own. At the same time, the administration of Zhodzina town education department has not responded to the request of the parents of Yanka Lapitski who urged it to foster a rapid resolution of the Zhodzina problem in a positive way. Continue reading »
Yury Shary, Zhodzina executive committee
On 24.02.2010 between 09-00 and 10-00, Juvenile Commission of Zhodzina executive committee held a meeting, which was attended under the threat of administrative sanctions by the parents of the Belarusian-speaking schoolboy Yanka Lapitski, who due to a series of decisions by Zhodzina executive authorities lost the opportunity to continue his education in Zhodzina gymnasium № 1 in Belarusian. Continue reading »
Court - without justice. Decision - ...
As it became known, as soon as on 11.02.2010 at 10-30, the day after the pre-trial proceedings, practically on the fly, without even letting the applicants to undress after entering the court room, Judge of Zhodzina Town Court Tatsiana Tratsiuk announced her final decision. Continue reading »
Zhodzina Town Department of Education
On 10.02.2010 is due the next scheduled meeting of Zhodzina Court on the complaint by the parents of Yanka Lapitski against the misdeeds of the officials of the executive committee of Zhodzina who ceased Belarusian-language education of their son at Gymnasium № 1 of Zhodzina.
Meanwhile, on 04.02.2010 Yanka Lapitski’s parents received a letter from the school, dated 14.01.2010. As can be seen, the correspondence was strangely unable to reach the address in Zhodzina for entire 20 days (!?).
Zhodzina town court
On 21.01.2010 the office of Zhodzina Court Deputy Judge Tatsiana Tratsiuk hosted a conversation with the parties on the complaint of Yanka Lapitski’s parents against the actions of municipal authorities, whose decision № 928 of 23.06.2009 suspended the Belarusian-language education of their son in gymnasium № 1 with a forced transfer of the Belarusian-speaking boy to a Russian-language class. Continue reading »
At 10-00 a.m. 21.01.2010 Zhodzina Court deputy chair Tatziana Tratsiuk scheduled a meeting (conversation) on the complaint by the parents of Yanka Lapitski, who, after a discriminatory decision № 928 by Zhodzina executive committee, was forcibly deprived of the right to continue secondary school education in the mother language at Zhodzina’s only Gymnasium № 1, where he studied since 2002 under a Belarusian-language curriculum with a priority study of English. Continue reading »
Аlaksiej Lapicki, Zhodzina
The Zhodzina human rights defender Aliaksei Lapitski, as a continuation of correspondence on the collective claims from the residents of the ‘Chernobyl House’ registered today, 05.01.2010, his appeal to local authorities in the executive committee of Zhodzina. Continue reading »
The Town Department of Education, Zhodzina
And the common term “telephone law” does not even fit here…
This is what happened…
Less than two weeks had passed, after the parents of Yanka Lapitski manage the return their own Belarusian-speaking son to full Belarusian-language training in Zhodzina Gymnasium № 1, but the efforts of the Director Henadz Karshun again deteriorated the situation and almost threw it back.
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Генадзь Каршун, Жодзіна
For example, on Monday, 09/11/2009, after the force lost of a whole quarter of studies (due to the action-inaction of officials from Zhodzina and Minsk) by the son of Zhodzina human rights defenders, members of the HRC Viasna, Aliaksei and Sviatlana Lapitskis, Yanka returned to Gymnasium #1. Continue reading »
How long and under what conditions it is difficult to say, because so far his parents have not received any written responses to their complaints to Zhodzina executive committee and Gymnasium # 1.
However, the student who was forced to miss an academic quarter, has recently been invited to school # 1 to continue his Belarusian-language studies… Continue reading »
On October 22 in Barysau unknown persons beat Young Front members Maxim Akhrymenka and Yury Bahdanovich during collection of signatures in support of the Belarusian language.
“We collected signatures among passers-by together, when four unknown people in plainclothes came near us,” Maxim Akhrymenka said to mfront.net website. “They asked whether we are Young Front members, and when we said yes, they started to beat us”.
As said by the young activist, when police patrol saw the fight, policemen turned around and went the other way. Then people in plainclothes disappeared.
Source: www.spring96.org
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By a resolution of the Juvenile Commission … the authorities have taken a five-day time-out to make a decision on the future of the Belarusian-speaking gymnasium pupil Yanka Lapitski, who after a discriminatory decision #928 by the Executive Committee of 09.09.2009 was actually deprived of the right to education in Belarusian Gymnasium #1 in Zhodzina.
On 19/10/2009 the parents of the Belarusian-speaking schoolboy Yanka Lapitski received a letter with an invitation to the meeting of the Juvenile Commission of Zhodzina Executive Committee to consider the future education of their son. After a telephone conversation with Alexei Lapitski, when he requested that they were sent a written invitation to the meeting, a document was served upon them by chairman of the commission and the secretary Natalia Larchanka and Iryna Danilava. Continue reading »
Alaksiej Lapicki
Sviatlana Lapickaja
As it turned out, possessed by an inspiration against “asocial elements” and being eager to put the “wrong” Belarusian citizens “in place” the officials have made a new “move of the knight”, on the phone – from the office of Director of Studies (Deputy Principal) of Gymnasium number 1 Ludmila Hladkikh straight into the office of the chief ideologist of the Smalevichy enterprise … Continue reading »
Vasyl Hryshchanka, Zhodzina executive committee
On 01.10.2009, the parents of Yanka Lapitski received a response to their latest appeal from the executive committee of Zhodzina. The document was once again signed by the chair of the executive committee Vasil Hryshchanka alone.
According to Aliaksei Lapitski, despite the fact that the letter from Mr. Hryshchanka noted that it was made in response to the applicants’ appeal, there were no specific answers to the questions raised by the Lapitskis. Continue reading »
It is difficult not to notice the signs of national, language and political discrimination. However this unprecedented and legally senseless determination can lead the nomenclature to fall flat on their faces. Continue reading »
Taisa Danilevich
She proves it by the necessity of deeper socialization of the Belarusian-speaking teenager.
Home studying or individual form of studying (without taking into consideration that Russian-language or village education is absolutely unacceptable) were suggested as an alternative. Continue reading »
Local authorities are clearing the situation, however they are doing this from the position of psychological pressure. On 26 August 2009 Aliaksej Lapitski had a 30-minute conversation with Vital Shulzhyk, a deputy director of Zhodzina education department. The conversation concerned the Belarusian-language education of Janka Lapitski, who’s inherent right on free obligatory general education in Belarusian language in Gymnasia №1 in Zhodzina was violated for two times during the last 4 years by the actions of local authorities. Continue reading »
The officcials started thinking what to do.. As 1 September is coming without any delay.. And then will they be brought to responsibility? Then all of them try to understand what is better to do further.. – to allow or not to allow…, what will be the final order? And what to do in order to remain spotless: either it is better to refer to “bad” executive local government body or to blame those who gave that brutal direction to discriminate Belarusian-language education…? Continue reading »
Siarhej Housha
Human rights defender from Baranavichy Siarhej Housha at last got the documents of registration of his property in the Belarusian language. Starting from March, 2009 he has been striving for his constitutional right on the usage of the Belarusian language in documentation to be realized.
After numerous appeals and claims to various state bodies in June 2009 Mr. Housha at last received a response to his appeal from Belarusian State Committee for the administration of property.
Mr. Housha appealed to the Committee after he had failed to get the documents of registration of his property in the Belarusian language when registering ownership of his parent’s property.
source: www.spring96.org
Aleh Hylah
Belarusian Helsinski Committee (BHC), a registered human rights organization, has made two special appeals to Prosecutor’s office and Ministry of Education in support of interests of the parents of Janka Lapicki, who’s inherent right on free obligatory general education in Belarusian language in Gymnasia №1 in Zhodzina was violated for the second time during the last 4 years by the actions of local authorities. Continue reading »
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In a recruiting agency a member of the Council of the “Moladz BNF” organisation Volha Ustsinovich was asked to cross out information about her good command of Belarusian from her CV.
“I have faced a situation which is rather typical concerning the recent events. The crisis, staff reduction, and I have become unemployed. It’s no picnic. But at least I was sure that it would be easy to find a new job soon. It seems that I have everything needed for it: a diploma of one of the most prestigious universities of the county, command of foreign languages, different courses and some experience. But one thing hasn’t been taken into account by me. I wrote in my résumé: “I have good command of Belarusian”.
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Zhodzina party bosses of the pro-Lukashenka Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM) seem to oppose Belarusian as such. They do not understand why a schoolchild may choose to dance to Belarusian-language music at a Christmas party.
Anyway, the fact is that the schoolmasters of Gymnasium #1, steered by the BRSM town office ideologists, impose ban on organizing a Belarusian-language Christmas school dancing party. Will this be followed by any reaction by the Ministry of Education? Continue reading »
