Human rights violations in Belarus in June 2012 - Torture and ill-treatment

Amos 5:24, Matt. 25:35-36, Hebr. 13:3, Matt. 23:23, Matt. 23:33, Chief Rabbi Lord J. Sacks message: "the silence of our friends." (MLK) Remembering Shoah/KGB-concentration camps all over prison Belarus. Regime worse than Stalin.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others." (Matt. 23:23)



"You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?" (Matt. 23:33)

"But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." (Amos 5:24)

Viasna (12.7.2012)

http://spring96.org/en/news/54243
Read about what is happening to Andrei Pachobut, Ales Bialiatski, Siarhei Kavalenka, Mikalai Statkevich, Mikhail Muski...

TORTURE TESTIMONIES:

by Alena Siamenchukova:
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/7/6/54747/
”In the cell, there was no place to sleep or any furniture at all. It was very cold. The administration of the temporary isolation cell of the Vitsebsk regional executive committee interior department refused to give me warm clothes, water, hygiene supplies passed in a parcel. I had to lie right on the dirty floor in a white T-shirt, jeans and ballerinas. It was so cold I couldn’t fall asleep. I had to walk in the cell all the time. The air was stuffy; there was no way to air the cell. All night long a light bulb was shining into my eyes, it was impossible to switch it off… Nor could I switch off the radio, its sound was torturing my brain. I got food for the first time in the morning of the next day of detention. I had to eat on the floor with dirty hands since I never got soap and towel. I couldn’t use the lavatory, because it lacked a flush tank, toilet paper, was placed so that the guards could see it and in general was disgusting,”


by human rights defender and lawyer Oleg Volchek:
http://www.charter97.org/ru/news/2012/7/11/54965/
"The Human rights defender continues to fight for closing the prison in Akrestsin. --- He points to the following violations: a complete lack of furniture in the chamber, the low temperature in the chamber and the lack of ventilation, lack of a single bed and bedding, overcrowding, poor sanitary and hygienic condition of the camera, poor lighting, the prohibition of food and gear failure to drinking water lack of adequate medical care, failure to issue hygiene, the presence of rats in the chamber. He argues that these and other violations of human dignity, humiliate, violate the Belarusian legislation and international obligations assumed by the Republic of Belarus."

by Aliaksandr Atroschankau:
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/6/25/54230/
"Amnesty International recognized Aliaksandar Atroschankau a prisoner of conscience. Lukashenka released him on 14 September 2011, under an international pressure. Aliaksandar told the Ukrainian Tidzhen about humiliations and other trials that the “politicals” have to go through in Belarusian jails".
Every day during the arrest in the KGB isolation cell I had to go through painful and humiliating physical procedures. They would order me to take my belongings, madras, bed sheets and pillows to the empty gym. I had to walk through a column of masked people. In the gym, they would tell me I’d been too slow, turn me around and make me jog back and forth with a 25-kilogram load seven times. Then they would order me to stretch my feet and arms and to stand like that facing the wall. They would open the window, -15 – 25 degrees outside. I had to stand naked, nearly in the splits. I felt them approaching me from behind, pushing with batons, clicking with electric shockers. This would go on for 40 minutes, one hour. I felt them breathing in the back of my neck, laughing, swearing."


by former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich:
“They have tried out all kind of methods [against me], except for insect powder.”
http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.fi/2012/05/europe-we-have-big-problem-treatment-of.html

Torture methods:
http://www.newcriterion.com/posts.cfm/Lukashenko-s-torture-chambers-6486


 by former presidential candidate Ales Michalevic (Russian)
 http://anei-aka-kirian.livejournal.com/281141.html


by Ales Michalevich (in English): "A concentration camp in the centre of Minsk"
http://pyx.by/eng/news/belarus/464/

by Human rights defender and lawyer Oleg Volchek
http://www.nv-online.info/by/288/printed/46754/%D0%9F%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D1%81%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8.htm 


http://spring96.org/en/news/53713
by disabled person fined for resisting forced fingerprinting

by exiled journalist Natalia Radzina:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GzdrJQVNc8 


by former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov: "worse than Stalin"

Fd. presidentkandidaten Andrei Sannikov sade genast efter att han frigavs från fängelsevistelsen där han utsattes för tortyr att KGB (inte bara säkerhetsstyrkorna) har gått mycket längre än sina motsvarigheter under Stalintiden (1937). Inte ens Stalin använde sådana avskyvärda metoder mot fångar, som man gör i Vitryssland. "Worse than Stalin".
http://nn.by/?c=ar&i=71912

 


 


Young Front leader Dimitry Dashkevich - an imprisoned hero - in great danger:
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/7/10/54910/
"Dimitri was thrown into a punishment cell for 13 days just after his transfer to barracks. Dashkevich later learned he was sentenced to additional days in a punishment cell for the offences he had  allegedly committed earlier. In response to a possible initiating a new criminal case,"

A prayer for Dimitri Dashkevich and Anastasia Palazhanka:
http://mfront.net/pasztovaia-skrynia-malitva-za-d-n.html


http://www.svaboda.org/content/article/24645112.html
Dimitri imprisoned in a cooler on his birthday on July 20th?

http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/7/14/55125/
Palazhanka: Dashkevich can remain in prison until 2016





Former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich:
http://statkevich.org/news.php?readmore=502

Mikalai Statkevich thrown into a punishment cell
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/7/13/55076/


Andrew Molchan beaten and arrested again:
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/7/14/55118/

Traffic policeman breaks his wand against biker-girl:
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/7/5/54696/


Free Kavalenka:
http://www.freekavalenka.org/be

Eduard Lobau imprisoned:
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/7/9/54825/


Loreen supported Natalia Pinchuk, the wife of Ales Bialiatski:
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2012/7/13/55110/ 




Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Message on the Holocaust Memorial Day 2012 - thank you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2C-k4q_wLI
Honoring the memory of Shoah 

"In the end, said Martin Luther King we will all remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends...

...where there where protests it made difference" (Lord Sacks)




Photo: KL, Opposition's flag, Minsk, Belarus