A K T I O N E N / A C T I O N S

Libereo will be present at the Ecumenical Kirchentag in Munich. For 3 days, 13-15 May, you can find us at the Agora. Our stand is in hall B6, hallway M, stand 8 (stand number B6 M08). If you are in Munich we are looking forward to meet you. At the Kirchentag we will start our photo-petition in support of freedom of religion in Belarus. More

Libereco-Petition: Religionsfreiheit für Belarus
Libereco lanciert eine Petition für die Achtung der Religionsfreiheit in Belarus. Die evangelische New Life Church in Minsk ist seit Jahren starken Repressionen durch den Staat ausgesetzt. Die Gemeinde soll enteignet und von ihrem Grundstück vertrieben werden. Außerdem wurde die New Life Church wegen angeblicher Umweltverschmutzung im Februar 2010 zu einer Geldstrafe in Höhe von ca. 100.000 US-Dollar verurteilt. Mehr

Libereco-Petition: Freedom of Religion for Belarus!
Libereco launches a petition for the respect of freedom of religion in Belarus. For several years, the evangelic New Life Church in Minsk is faced with strong repressions by the Belarusian authorities. The community should be dislodged from its own land. Furthermore the church was charged with environmental contamination and ordered to pay a fine of approx. 100.000 USD. More

Libereco: Unterstützen Sie Aleh Surhan!
Senden Sie ihm eine Grusskarte und unterzeichnen Sie bis 31.05.2010 unsere Petition.

Libereco: Please support Aleh Surhan!
Send him a greeting card and sign our petition before 31.05.2010:

Petition (PDF, deutsch)

Petition (PDF, englisch)

I N F O R M A T I O N E N / I N F O R M A T I O N S

Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in February 2010
In February, the conflict between the two Unions of Poles in Belarus, the union that is recognized by the Belarusian authorities and the union that is recognized by the Polish authorities, reached international scale. On 17 February the Valozhyn district court obliged Tereza Sobal, Chairperson of the Ivianets Polish House, to pass the building to the administration of the pro-governmental Union of Poles. Mass detentions of civil activists were conducted during the court hearings on the confiscation of the Polish House. More

Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in March 2010
The situation of human rights in Belarus in March showed the extent to which the Belarusian authorities were ready to follow the way of democratic reforms. Execution of two death convicts was one of the most important events that month. Human rights defenders are of the opinion that it was consciously done to thwart the requirements of the national legislation and the international undertakings that were ratified by the country. More

Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in April 2010
The local council elections were the main event in April. According to information of Lidziya Yarmoshyna, Chairperson of the Central Election Commission, 21,293 deputies were elected to the local councils on 25 April. Among them there are nine representatives of democratic opposition, including 3 members of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, 5 members of the Belarusian Party of Leftists Fair World and 1 member of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party Hramada. More

Reporters Without Borders: Journalists’ emails probed, Charter 97 website persecuted
Reporters Without Borders condemns a senior police officer’s decision to allow police computer experts to access the email and Skype instant messaging accounts of several independent journalists as part of an investigation prompted by a defamation suit by a former senior official in the Committee for State Security (KGB). More

S O N S T I G E S 

11.05.2010: Podiumsdiskussion zur Östlichen Partnerschaft und Zivilgesellschaft in Belarus
DGO und Menschenrechte in Belarus e.V. laden zur Podiumsdiskussion "Ein Jahr Östliche Partnerschaft der EU: Hoffnungen und Bedenken der Zivilgesellschaft in Belarus" ein. Die Veranstaltung findet statt im Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte (Robert-Havemann-Saal), Greifswalder Straße 4, 10405 Berlin. Mehr

15.05.2010: Wandel in der letzten Diktatur Europas? 

Jugend aus Weißrussland auf dem Weg in die Zukunft

Eine Veranstaltung auf dem 2. Ökumenischen Kirchentag in München
Samstag, 15.05.2010, 16.00 bis 17.30 Uhr
Olympiastadion, Raum Montreal, Olympiapark

Gespräch mit:
Maxim Grouchevoi, Redakteur BelarusNews, Gesellschaft für Internationale Bildungsprojekte in Osteuropa, Leonberg

Ulrike Kind, Studienleiterin Ev. Akademie Berlin, Berlin

Hanna Stähle, Studentin, Passau

Christian Mihr, Redaktionsleiter euro/topics N-OST - Netzwerk für Osteuropa-Berichterstattung, Berlin

Moderation: Karin Ziaja, Aachen

Gestaltung: CVJM, Berlin und Nele Quecke, Düsseldorf

Libereco: Ihre Spende für unsere Arbeit gegen Menschenrechtsverletzungen:

Spendenkonto Deutschland:
Empfänger: Libereco
Konto-Nr.: 4027536700
Bank: GLS Bank
BLZ: 43060967

Spendenkonto Schweiz:
Empfänger: Libereco
Postkonto: 85-792427-8
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