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APPEAL BY THE COMMITTEE “SALIDARNASC” TO HEADS OF PENITENTIAL INSTITUTIONS

18 letters of appeal with Concluding Observations of the UN Committee against Torture were submitted by the Committee “Salidarnasc” to administrations of correctional facilities and pre-trial detention facilities of the KGB and on Valadarskaha str.   “International obligations of the Republic of Belarus are a priority over the national legislation and shall be implemented no matter what the political situation is and despite any other circumstances” – Inna Kuley, Chairperson of the Committee “Salidarnasc”, mentions in the appeal letters she signed.   Чытаць далей

“SALIDARNASC” DEFENDS STUDENTS

In connection with the fact that three students were expelled from Minsk State Linguistic University, Committee “Salidarnasc” sent out letters of reaction and pressure to Natallia Baranava, rector of MSLU, so that to “clear out the situation, to objectively assess cause of events and give the expelled students a chance to continue their education.”   Committee “Salidarnasc” mentioned in the letter that there are grounds to talk about political motivation in decisions about expulsion of Aliaksandr Saldatsenka, Aliaksandr Vialitchanka and Mikita Kavalenka from MSLU. Чытаць далей

Uss mother: "I'm worried about son's state of health"

Ex-candidate on the presedential elections, political prisoner Dzmitry Uss’s been transferred to the medical center in the detention center on Valadarsky street in Minsk. As the result of the medical commission there, prisoners disability group has changed from third to second, as the wife of former candidate for presidency said.

Uss was taken to the magnetic resonans tomography accompanied by the head doctor of the prison and its governor. The prisoner must be examined by high-level expert the other day.   Uss lawyer sent a demand to find out the true state of health of his client and give his relatives the answer, if he is needed in immediate and serious treatment. Prisoners mother managed to get a 30-minute meeting with her son. Dzmitry Uss looks very thin and tired, according to her.

 

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Political Prisoners Released On The Day of Belarusian Solidarity

On May 16, on the day of Belarusian Solidarity, family, friends and colleagues met with the political prisoners released from custody at the court room after the announcement of the verdict. Iryna Halip got two years term with a two- year suspension, Paval Sevyarynets – three years of work release, Syarhei Martsaleu – two years with a two-year suspension.

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Godparenthood for Mikola Statkevich

Franz Thönnes, a member of the German Bundestag from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentary group and a member of the German Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, takes over a prisoner’s godparenthood for Mikola Statkevich.

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Press for political prisoners

Every month “Solidarity” volunteers secure media subscriptions for political prisoners. Among the newspapers and magazines are “Narodnaya Volya”, “Nasha Niva”, “Belgazeta”, “Komsolskaya Pravda”, “Pressball” and others according to the prisoners’ preferences. The newspapers are delivered to the cell that helps to stay informed about all events, be aware of developments and not to be detached from the life outside of prison, as the Volodarsky detention center prisoners writes. The convicts who have been transferred to the colonies receive mass media to their new addresses.

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EP Adopts Zmicer Bandarenka

Marek Migalski, member of the European Parliament, adopted Dzmitry Bandarenka, a political prisoner in Belarus.

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Political Trials Continued in Minsk

These hot April days the whole city of Minsk turned into a courtroom, where the trial is held against political opponents of the existing regime. There hardly has been enough time for the panic in convenience stores to settle down, or for the echo of the horrible terrorist act in the Minsk metro to pass. A common man cannot possibly understand from the state mass media what kind of “terrorists” and “hooligans” are on trial and how investigation of such a complex case could have been carried out in such short time. As it turns out, the official mass media label as “the terrorists” the participants of the protest action against rigged elections that took place on December 19, 2010.

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Parents of political prisoners gathered together

The meeting with parents of young people accused in case of “riots” in Minsk on Dec. 19, 2010 took place in “Solidarity” committee. -The latest political criminal proceedings that took place in Belarus, have shown that there is no evidence of riots, that people are accused in - Valentin Stefanovich, lawyer, human rights activist said during the meeting. Occurred trials on Parfiankou, Atroshchankau, Malchanau, Novik, Breus, Haponau, Medved and Likhavid have shown violation of the Criminal Procedure Code, as the investigation is not completed, and the courts have already started their work. The direct involvement of defendants in destroing the property of the Government House has not been proved in court. Чытаць далей

Andrei Klimau has spent week in remand prison

On April 3 an opposition leader Andrei Klimau was arrested in Minsk. For publishing on the web and article the politician in charged with violation article 361 Part 3 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (appeals to overthrow or change of he constitutional regime of Belarus committed with the use of mass media). At the moment Andrei Klimau stays in the remand prison in Valadarski Street in Minsk. He faces a sentence from 1 to 5 years of imprisonment.

The investigator of Minsk prosecutor’s office Anatol Hadun, who is investigating the case of Andrei Klimau, denies comments to journalists. Nothing is informed about conditions of detention of Andrei Klimau in Minks remand prison.

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Statement on Aleh Surhan's sentence

Committee for Defence of the Repressed “Salidarnasc” is very concerned by the sentence to Aleh Surhan. On the 19th of February Aleh Surhan was sentenced by Vitebsk Kastrychnicki district court to 6 months of arrest and 2,5 millions Belarusian rubbles of compensation under the article 364 of Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (violence or the threat of using the violence against militiaman or his relatives). Aleh Surhan was detained while he was hanging white-red-white flag. When he was being driven to militia department he was beaten by militiamen. In militia department he wrote a complaint to the prosecutor’s office and right after this militiaman Siarhei Dudkevich said that he was attacked by Surhan. Criminal case was brought against Surhan. The only witnesses at trial were militiamen. Dudkevich said during the trial that Surhan had bitten his finger when he was not letting Surhan “to hit his head against militia car”.

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Monitoring of the situation with human rights in regions of Belarus in January-June 2009

This monitoring is prepared on the basis of tracking the situations and the development of events in the country after the beginning of dialogue between EU and Belarus. In this document we mention negative and positive fact that took place in the regions of Belarus in the period from the 1st of January till the 1st of July 2009.
Main results:

• The situation in the whole in the regions is being tense and there are no signs of real changes
• The reduce of amount of repressions by the authorities can be explained not by the liberalization of the treatment of the opposition by the authorities but by the absence of any significant social and political events in the given period.
• The repressions are mainly of the hidden character. The most typical example is firing from job. This hidden character is explained by the fact that firing was done as if for legal reasons, but there were always political motivation in such cases. The same is the situation with employment;

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