Two young men could be executed in three days. The probability is high that the two are completely innocent of what they are accused of. Read the letter of the mother of one of the accused, sign the petition and spread the words!
Swedish Member of European Parliament Olle Schmidt (Folkpartiet/Liberal Party of Sweden) writes an open letter to the prosecuting authorities of Belarus, concerning the charges against the human rights activist Ales Bialiatski.
Isabel Sommerfeld, Project Manager behind Info Belarus, today writes together with Jonathan Leman (reporter at the magazine Expo) and Johan Berggren (Editor in Chief at Ordfront Magasin, one of the biggest society Magazines in Sweden) about how Wikileaks representatives use their leaks to support dictatorships. The case which is specifically addressed is Israel Shamir, Wikileaks representative who was in place [...]
Presidential candidate Ales Michalevic writes about the presidential election in Belarus 2010, the development in the country and the torture in KGB prison.
Foto: Peter Knutson Ett politiskt system byggt på fri- och rättigheter kräver ett brett stöd och byggs underifrån. Det är därför avgörande att omvärlden fortsätter att stödja Vitrysslands/Belarus demokratiska och frihetstörstande krafter, skriver EU- och demokratiminister Birgitta Ohlsson (Fp). År 2011 kommer för alltid att bli ihågkommet för den arabiska våren. Men medan vi nu bevittnar dessa historiska revolutioner på [...]
Internet has become an important political, social, cultural and economic factor in today’s globalized world. Together with new communication technologies it is able to accelerate political changes in societies especially those that live with authoritarian and totalitarian political regimes. This year’ revolutions in the Arabic world wouldn’t have happened so fast without Internet used as a mean for coordination, public [...]
För mig som jurist, som tidigare arbetat med mänskliga rättigheter och nu sitter i riksdagen, samt är ledamot i justitieutskottet, blir jag otroligt uppgiven när jag ser att den redan bristande rättssäkerheten bara blir än värre i Belarus. En vän till mig i Minsk sa att känslan är som att ”alla som har en kökskniv hemma riskerar att kallas för [...]
Aleksandr Klaskouski during the presidential election protest in Minsk 2010 I appeal to the international democratic community to help stop the tyranny and arbitrariness in the heart of Europe. Because without a free Belarus, there is no free Europe, Volha Klaskouskaya (independent journalist) writes. After over 17 years of Lukashenka’s rule in Belarus, the scale of repression has reached a [...]
As I write I love Belarus, European readers are amazed that someone can be positive about a dictatorship. As if the sun never shines in autocratic countries! That’s why I will write it again and write it even more often: I do love Belarus, Maryna Rakhlei writes, independent journalist from Belarus. I noticed just yesterday: My international friends are curious about my [...]
Belarus was once a part of Europe. And I do hope that I will see the day when every citizen in Belarus will call himself/herself European, Yauhen Yakimenka (Young Democrats, Belarus) writes. Belarus is situated in the centre of Europe. We sometime could even hear that the geographical centre of Europe, Europe’s heart, is somewhere in the land of Belarus. But [...]
