The South Korean pentavalent vaccine “Eupenta”, around which a scandal erupted in August with the death of a child, continues to be used in Belarusian clinics. The announcement of this was noticed in the Viciebsk children's polyclinic №2.
As reported, recently the organizer of the "Russian marches" and the presidential candidate of Russia Alexander Baburin created in Belarus a political movement to "speed up integration." Representatives of the LDP, "Tell the Truth", Communists and a number of Black-Hundred organizations like "Rumola" took part in the dubious event. It is noteworthy that representatives of the Viciebsk Orthodox clergy also participated.
The total isolation, which was created by the administration of penal colony No. 9 (Horki) with respect to Mikhail Zhamchuzhny, was finally broken: a letter from a political prisoner was received by human rights activist Tatyana Revyako.
The administration of Horki penal colony No. 9 did not allow the republican and regional public monitoring commissions to see political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny.
On March 12, near the Belarusian embassy in London, a picket was held in support of British citizen Alan Smith, who is serving time in correctional colony No. 3 near Viciebsk on charges of organizing illegal migration.
Human rights activist Pavel Levinov received information that the Viciebsk regional court on September 22, 2017 was sentenced to death. It came into force on October 6, 2017. This verdict was not appealed or protested. The convicted person in the Viciebsk case is placed in the Detention Unit No. 1 in Minsk.
Viciebsk region took the last place in the rating of enterprising regions, in which the largest number of individual entrepreneurs per 1 thousand inhabitants. But Viciebsk individual entrepreneurs earn more than others on agriculture. The study conducted the Kufar announcement site on the basis of official statistics and own data.
So far, all laws have been adopted only in one of the state languages, with only a few of them in Belarusian. The attempt to change such a vicious practice failed: the chairman of the parliamentary commission on legislation Natalia Guyvik from Połacak "stabbed" the first bilingual law.
Gennady Berdenev was tried in absentia: on December 1 he could not get from Połacak by 9:30 to the court of the Moscow district of Minsk. He learned about the fine of 25 basic units by phone.
On the instructions of the leadership of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, the Standing Committee on Work and Social Affairs of the PP considered the proposal of Viciebsk human rights activist Leonid Svetik regarding holding parliamentary hearings about the decree on "parasites". The result of this consideration was the refusal of the parliament to hold the proposed hearings.
A group of pupils and teachers of the gymnasium of German Nienburg helps in the improvement of the territory of the former Viciebsk ghetto and other important places for the Jewish community, said the head of secondary school No. 21 Sergei Zybin.
Information agency "New Platform Innovation" ("Platform") appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to react to the facts of pressure, which, to the best of the organization's knowledge, are being rendered to the political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny by the administration of the colony No. 9 in Horki. This was announced at a press conference on August 15 in Minsk by the director of the Platform, Andrei Bondarenko.
The fact that the political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny is in the quarantine of the corrective colony No. 9 (Horki, Mahiloŭ region), Viciebsk human rights activists learned from the short letter they received the other day. This is the third corrective colony in which one has to serve a prisoner of conscience.
In continuation of the topic of temporary detention isolators of the Vitebsk region, we quote the story of the co-chairman of the newly created BCD party, Pavel Sevyarynets. Pavel, as a former political prisoner, is well acquainted with the penitentiary system of Belarus. This year he was punished with 15 days of arrest after the "March of the non-parasites" in Vorša, which was held on March 12.
The best way to defend their rights – to send away those who prevents to do it. So says the leader of "Young Front" Źmicier Dashkevich, who, we recall, the prize for "freedom of thought" was presented on 17 June.
On June 14, a round table of the Public Platform "Dialogue" was held in Viciebsk. The meeting was organized by the Civil Accord movement, which appeared somehow suddenly out of nowhere, but has already held a similar meeting in Minsk.
In addition to the Englishman Alan Paul Smith, two citizens of Belarus were on the dock. All three are accused of organizing illegal migration, allegedly committed by a group of persons on preliminary conspiracy. According to part 2 of Article 371¹ of the Criminal Code, the accused faces imprisonment for a term of three to seven years.
On April 20, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Viciebsk passed a trial of another participant in an unauthorized action in the city. It is noteworthy that, accused of violating the administrative code, Lynsh Yuri Alexandrovich, is not a resident of Viciebsk, but came from Minsk and, he said, happened to be in the center of the city on the day of the action.
This was stated by Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection Igor Starovoitov on February 28 at a meeting of the Council for the Improvement of Labor Legislation. The reason for the control was violation of the General Agreement by the Belkhimprofsoyuz. At the plant, Belkhimprofsoyuz's primary (BHP) refusal to implement the General Agreement and create a unified representation of employees together with the Belarusian Free Trade Union (SPB).
Back in September 2014, during the acute phase of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, Viciebsk human rights activist Leonid Svetik appealed to the Viciebsk city executive committee. It asked him the address of the nearest bomb shelter equipped. To get a plausible answer, it took time.
A Viciebsk "fighter for the truth" Dr. Igor Postnov, which for several years has repeatedly appealed to the law enforcement authorities with a statement that a criminal case against the former Chairman of the Viciebsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets again intensified.
Belarus has developed a draft presidential decree which provides for the restriction sites selling electronic steam generators (electronic cigarettes) and liquids to them, and the prohibition of their sale to persons under 18 years of age. Such a response is received Viciebsk human rights activist Leonid Svetik from the Ministry of Commerce, which has addressed with an appropriate proposal.
At the end of October in Geneva, Switzerland UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the official report of Belarus has been heard about the country's achievements in the advancement of women. Among the Belarusian human rights defenders who happen to be present at the discussion of the report and read out was Viciebsk human rights activist Leonid Svetik.