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The Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius hosts the presentations of the documentary “The cause of death is «–» “, which tells about the death penalty in Belarus. There are held discussions with the filmmakers and human rights activists, where guests can discuss the issue of the death penalty. The next presentation will be held on August 3, everyone is invited to participate.

“How strange it works. We write about all the important things: about hopes of IMF credit, about another price rise, about the youngest state Southern Sudan. At the same time a young boy is being slowly, quietly, methodically killed in the Navapolatsk colony, ” – wrote journalist Svetlana Kalinkina about the youngest political prisoner in Belarus. We present the whole essay here.

The Belarusian general prosecutor, Grigory Vasilevich, has stood up for journalists and defended their right to report on ongoing political protests. According to a 15 July statement issued by his press office, Vasilevich sent a letter to Interior Minister Anatoly Kuleshov reminding his colleague of journalists’ rights under the law. Last week Belarusian Authorities also dropped lawsuits aimed at closing two independent newspapers in country.

38 organizations from 16 countries have sent a letter to Belarusian authorities to denounce continuing repressions against civil society in Belarus, and the recent arrests of peaceful demonstrators. The authors of the letter called upon Belarusian authorities to stop violence against peaceful protesters and release the arrested demonstrators.

38 organizations from 16 countries have sent a letter to the Belarusian authorities to condemn the continuing repressions against civil society in Belarus and the recent arrests of peaceful demonstrators.

Silent demonstrations on Wednesdays continue across Belarus. Since 15 June 2011, at least 1730 people, including dozens of journalists, have been arrested during the peaceful “clapping protests”. Thirty eight international human rights organisations, including 23 members of 10 Human Rights Houses, united in their call upon the Belarusian authorities to immediately release the demonstrators from prisons.

Belarusians keep organising mass silent protest. Inspite of altered format of the actions, the protesters are being brutally arrested. The international community condemns such actions of Belarusian authorities and urges them to stop violence against demonstrators.

Silent protest actions in Belarus end up with beating up and arrests of peaceful citizens and journalists. After the nation-wide action held on 29 June, more than 300 people were detained. Such an inadequate reaction to peaceful protests was condemned by the international community.

In a new crackdown against the independent press, Belarusian police briefly detained and beat more than a dozen reporters, and broke their equipment at June 29 protest rally in Minsk and Brest, according to news reports and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) sources in Belarus.