Vitebsk human rights activists hold a demonstration on the Internet. They began collecting signatures for a petition titled "Freedom for outspoken doctor Igor Postnov forcibly detained in a mental hospital in Belarus". All those who wish to sign a request to the address of the Minister of Health of Belarus to psychiatric re-examination of Dr. Igor Postnov.
TUT.BY correspondent managed to visit the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Center of Psychiatry and Addiction, and talk to the chief doctor of the medical establishment Elena Martynova. Igor Postnov being treated in a psychiatric hospital with a special mode of observation. It lies in the department number 2, which is called the "first psychotypical episode ." The entrance to this office immediately locked with a key - once there , or someone will come out.
Amnesty International has stood up for the Vitebsk doctor Igor Postnova placed by court order in a psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment. The organization called on all concerned to urgent action: write in Belarusian, Russian, English or your own language letter to the Minister of Health of Belarus Vasily Zharko and Prosecutor General Alexander Kaniuk.
Deputy Prime Minister Petr Prokopovich told the private business of his task. First, in the next five years to achieve the 50% of the gross domestic product (currently about 20%). Second, official advises entrepreneurs to start producing and selling domestic products, and not to complain about the new technical regulations of the Customs Union on light industrial products. Chairman of the organizing group for the creation of the Belarusian Trade Union "Razam" Irina Yaskevich official said such statements useless.
According to the information spread in the media, at the next session the deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus will consider amendments to the Electoral and Administrative Codes of the Republic of Belarus. According to available information, will be banned campaigning for a boycott of the elections, and for the implementation of such a campaign would have administrative sanctions. In this regard, the Commission on the Law of the House of Representatives asked the chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council BPF Leanid Autukhou.
A Vitebsk resident Peter Ivanov sent a complaint against the officers of the government of the Republic of Belarus to the address of Mrs. Margarat Sekaggya, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. He asks to recognize that the officials acted against him as a human rights activist unacceptable manner contrary to the spirit and letter of the "Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to promote and protect universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms."
August 21 afternoon, judge Degtyareva in Vitebsk district court on the basis of the decision of the medical advisory board (WCC) and the consent of the Vitebsk city prosecutor's office in the presence of the deputy chief physician of the medical unit of Psychiatry ultrasound Vitebsk Regional Clinical Centre of Psychiatry and Addiction Ponomarev ruled forced psychiatric treatment Igor Postnov. The court session was held without the participation of the public, representatives of the prosecutor, the legal counsel, Mr. Postnov and his close relatives.
Department of Corrections of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus has not given permission to visit independent journalist penitentiary system. An appropriate statement addressed to the department of the Vitebsk member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists Kastus Mardzvincau. "Guidance Department considers it inappropriate to your visit to the penal colonies of the correctional system Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus", - said the first deputy head of the applicant DIN SI Procenko.
In Vitebsk in Victory Square on August 15, law enforcement officials celebrated the 95th anniversary of the founding of Vitebsk provincial police. Residents of the regional center were able to see samples of police equipment and weapons of the past decades. Complete the picture of the police, mummers in the form of the Soviet era.
Christopher Zhelyapau, coordinator of the movement "For Freedom" in the Vitebsk region, received a response to a joint letter from the Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee A. Diulin. More than 40 local residents asked City Council to reverse the decision on how to conduct mass actions. The answer executive committee officials - negative.