News archive / 2011
27.12.2011 December 23 marks the first anniversary of the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance: ICAED Press-release
26.12.2011 Support FEMEN activists by signing the petition!
26.12.2011 Portraits of political prisoners and Belarusian flags in Vilnius
26.12.2011 Picket in Paris: Down with Lukashenka!
26.12.2011 Rally in London on December 19
25.12.2011 Solidarity action in Washington
24.12.2011 Dutch premier of Belarusian Dream and start of the Mustache action in Amsterdam on December 19
24.12.2011 One year after Square: Brutal crackdown and mass arrests again
24.12.2011 Christopher Smith and Irina Krasovskaya held a press conference in Washington on occasion of one year anniversary of the Belarusian elections
14.12.2011 Daniella Kalyada: I have this feeling of fear from 1999 when Anatoliy, husband of my god-mother was kidnapped and killed
12.12.2011 Belarusians picket UN headquarters in New York
12.12.2011 Announcement: Solidarity action on December 19th in Washington, DC
12.12.2011 We Remember co-hosts the event dedicated to the anniversary of December 19 2010 tragic events in Minsk
27.11.2011 Kanavalau and Kavalyou sentenced to death
27.11.2011 Irina Krasovskaya attended ICAED international conference on the issue of enforced disappearances in Geneva
24.11.2011 Ales Byalyatski given 4.5 years in medium security penal colony
23.11.2011 Solidarity actions in Minsk
23.11.2011 Solidarity of Dzyarzhynsk and Maladzechna
23.11.2011 Day of Solidarity in New York
23.11.2011 Solidarity day in The Hague
11.11.2011 Statement of the ICAED to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances
11.11.2011 Governments must redouble efforts to bring an end to enforced disappearances
11.11.2011 Solidarity day in the Netherlands
04.11.2011 Irina Krasovskaya will attend ICAED International Conference on Enforced Disappearances
23.10.2011 Action of solidarity with political prisoners dispersed in Minsk
19.10.2011 Action to free political prisoners held in Minsk
19.10.2011 Iryna Krasovskaya attended a reception in the honour of EHU
16.10.2011 Solidarity day in the Hague
16.10.2011 Last figurant of 19 December mass riot case sentenced to three years of personal restraint
16.10.2011 Presentation of the Working Group on Belarus report took place in Brusells
06.10.2011 European Court finds Russia responsible for enforced disappearance of Chechen
06.10.2011 Action of solidarity in The Hague
28.09.2011 Iryna Khalip: Sannikov and Dashkevich can be murdered in prison
28.09.2011 The people of the Republic of Belarus have commenced the first-ever worldwide prosecution of a sitting Dictator
18.09.2011 11 political prisoners released
18.09.2011 Andrei Sannikov's International Legal team files petition to the UN to obtain opinion that his imprisonment volates international law
17.09.2011 Actions of solidarity and memory in Eindhoven
16.09.2011 Twelve years without Viktor Gonchar and Anatoly Krasovsky
07.09.2011 Eindhoven will commemorate the disappeared Belarusians and support the political prisoners
07.09.2011 Today is Viktor Gonchar's Birthday
02.09.2011 Aleh Byabenin found dead a year ago
02.09.2011 Four more participants of December 19 events released
30.08.2011 ICAED statement on the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared
30.08.2011 Today is the International Day of the Disappeared
16.08.2011 On Solidarity Day Belarusians of Warsaw hold picket in support of Byalyatski
16.08.2011 Ales Bialiatski’s detention extended by 2 months
13.08.2011 Appeal of mothers, wives and daughters of the repressed Belarusians: full text
05.08.2011 Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians regrets over Belarusian Parliament's formal replies on disappearances of Hanchar and Krasouski
07.07.2011 Eleven years without Dmitry Zavadsky
02.07.2011 Tunisia ratified The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances
02.07.2011 Irina Krasovskaya signed the open letter to the US President
19.06.2011 Solidarity action in the Hague
18.06.2011 Action of solidarity with political prisoners in Warsaw
17.06.2011 Give back our men!
17.06.2011 June the 19th: action of solidarity in the Hague
15.06.2011 European Court holds Russia responsible for failing to investigate disappearance and subsequent death in Chechnya
02.06.2011 Committee on Enforced Disappearances established in New-York
02.06.2011 Action of protest in London
02.06.2011 Open letter of Irina Bogdanova, Natalia Kolyada and Irina Krasovskaya to Latvian President
31.05.2011 European deputes are sending words of support to Belarusian political prisoners and their families
29.05.2011 Last week of May — the International Week of the Disappeared
26.05.2011 Statkevich sentenced to 6, Uss to 5.5 years in prison
26.05.2011 Nyaklyaeu: 2 years suspended sentence, Rymasheuski: 2 years conditional imprisonment
18.05.2011 Mass action “Freedom for Belarus” held in Berlin
18.05.2011 Solidarity action in Warsaw
18.05.2011 Day of Solidarity in Minsk
18.05.2011 Pickets in support of Belarusian political prisoners in Moscow
18.05.2011 Two years of suspended sentence to Khalip, three years in open type correctional facility for Sevyarynets
17.05.2011 Anatoly Krasovsky turned 59
15.05.2011 Action of solidarity took place in Dusseldorf
14.05.2011 Andrei Sannikov sentenced to 5 years in medium security colony
13.05.2011 Sindhis and Balochs protest against the killing and disappearances in Pakistan
13.05.2011 Amnesty International's report on Belarus
13.05.2011 Another reprisal by court: From 3 to 3.5 years
06.05.2011 Yury Zakharenko remembered in the Hague
06.05.2011 Reprisal in court: from 3 to 4 years in prison for peaceful demonstrators of December 19
29.04.2011 Action in memory of Yury Zakharenko in the Netherlands
29.04.2011 Zmitser Bandarenka sentenced to two years in penal colony
16.04.2011 Solidarity day in the Hague
12.04.2011 Zambia ratified The UN International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances
11.04.2011 Action of solidarity with the Belarusians in the Netherlands
04.04.2011 The battle for a free Belarus
03.04.2011 Belarusian revolution at Brussels Forum
26.03.2011 Mass arrests on Freedom Day
26.03.2011 Time to admit failure of West’s policy towards Belarus
24.03.2011 Irina Krasovskaya attended events on the issue of disappearances in Geneva
24.03.2011 Dashkevich got 2 years in minimum security penal colony, Lobau – 4
19.03.2011 Action of solidarity in the Hague
15.03.2011 Fighting Lukashenko: One Woman’s Story
12.03.2011 Action of solidarity due to take place in the Netherlands
12.03.2011 My husband phoned to say he was going to the sauna...we never saw him again
12.03.2011 European Parliament passed resolution on tortures in Belarus
12.03.2011 New punishments for the 19th of December
05.03.2011 Mikuláš Dzurinda: Belarus became Europe’s main problem
03.03.2011 Aleksandr Otroschenkov: 4-year restricted prison term, Aleksandr Molchanov: 3 years, Dmitry Novik 3.5 years
03.03.2011 Irina Krasovskaya is attending two events on the issue of disappearances in Geneva
01.03.2011 European Court condemns Russia for Disappearance of two men in Chechnya
01.03.2011 Armenia ratified The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances
21.02.2011 Belarusians’ tragedy remembered in Europe
18.02.2011 Solidarity destroys walls
17.02.2011 Belarusian Court Sentences Opposition Activist to four years in jail
17.02.2011 Netherlands express soliarity with people of Belarus
17.02.2011 Solidarity action to take place February 18th in Washington, DC
11.02.2011 Actions of solidarity due to take place in the Netherlands
09.02.2011 The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances reminds Belarus about its obligations to conduct impartial investigations
09.02.2011 Gabon ratifies the Convention
07.02.2011 Natalya Kalyada and Irina Krasovskaya call for action from U.S., EU leaders
02.02.2011 US hits Belarus with new sanctions
02.02.2011 Ban Ki-moon again calls on Government to release detainees
02.02.2011 Travel ban list of Belarusian officials
30.01.2011 Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu, Natallya Radzina and Iryna Khalip under house arrest
30.01.2011 Speech by Natalia Kaliada during the Hearings in the United State
21.01.2011 Free Theatre actor gets $350 fine for participation in solidarity action on January the 19th
21.01.2011 World’s celebrities in New-York against dictatorship
16.01.2011 Amnesty International: Belarus urged to free prisoners of conscience held after post-election protest
16.01.2011 Action of solidarity with people of Belarus took place in the Netherlands
13.01.2011 Belarus: MEPs call for tough EU sanctions against national officials
12.01.2011 Declaration of the Representatives of the Belarusian Democratic Opposition on the Situation in Belarus
12.01.2011 Natalya Kalyada: We speak on behalf of all political prisoners
11.01.2011 Action of solidarity with the victims of the political regime in Belarus to take place in the Netherlands
08.01.2011 European Belarus demands immediate release of all political prisoners
08.01.2011 David Kramer: We must stop believing Lukashenka
08.01.2011 Natalya Kalyada and Irina Krasovskaya met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
06.01.2011 25 accused in mass riot case
04.01.2011 Lukashenko to go back on EU visa ban list
04.01.2011 Dutch MP raises question of recognizing opposition as legitimate representatives of Belarus
01.01.2011 Lukashenka closes OSCE office in Belarus