Former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich has been sent to punishment cell for wearing wrong clothes. According to his lawyer, he will remain in the punishment cell until January 24.
Isabel Sommerfeld singing words by Uladzimir Nyaklyayeu in Belarusian, at Medborgarplatsen, Stockholm. Photo: Maria Söderberg. The 19th of December 2011, one year since the electoral fraud and presidential election in Belarus, a solidarity meeting was held in Stockholm at Medborgarplatsen. For 12 hours, people arrived to the square to read poems written by Belarusian poets/writers, for freedom of speech [...]
On the 19th of December 2011, one year since the presidential election in Belarus, the ukrainian FEMEN activists Inna Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko and Aleksandra Nemchinova organized a flash mob and stripped topless in front of the Belarusian KGB headquarters, screaming ”Long live Belarus!” and ”Freedom to political prisoners!” They later on disappeared and their friends could not reach them on their mobile phones. According [...]
”We were shocked by the verdict. We are afraid. Vlad is not involved in this crime, they could shoot a completely innocent person, it is terrible. They lied about everything, what Fedartsov read today is not true to the preparatory stage . They turned everything into what they needed, they ignored entirely what the FSB (Russian security Service) said in [...]
Today, the Supreme Court of Belarus sentenced Dmitry Kanavalau and Vladislav Kavaliou to death on the charges of executing several bombings, including the bomb in the Minsk metro on 11th of April 2011, which claimed 15 lives. There is a possibility that Dmitry and Vladislav are not guilty. Once their lives are taken, there is no way of changing the sentence.
”We have two days to create a media outcry in the world to hopefully stop the court in Belarus from punishing the accused with death penalty. Regardless of their guilt, it’s not okay for a country in the middle of Europe to still actively use death penalty as punishment. When a life is taken, it will never return. We are fortunate to be born in a country with freedom of expression and press freedom. With freedom comes responsibility . So let’s focus the spotlight on ”Europe’s last dictatorship” and speak for the silenced,” Sommerfeld writes.
Ales Byalyatski, the head of the belarusian human rights center Viasna stands trial in Minsk today. Why? Simply for being in charge of the human rights center Viasna. This is the reality and ”justice” in dictator Lukashenko’s society. He is threatened with 7 years in prison, and the official reasons for charging him is tax evasion/ economical crimes. By tricking [...]
Info Belarus project manager Isabel Sommerfeld will today take part in a seminar organized by Amnesty International in Sweden, where you will be able to hear her talk about her trips to Belarus and the presidential election in 2010. Since today is the International Day Against Death Penalty, Amnesty will be informing about Belarus, the only state in Europe and [...]
Students of universities in Belarus are forced to sign a document obliging them not to take part in the “Revolution Through Social Networks”, Charter 97 reports. Police men are personally calling students and forcing them to sign this ‘contract’. This is a way of putting psychological pressure on students. “I was told that police were looking for me when I [...]
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.
