President Aleksandr Lukashenka
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BY AIRMAIL President Aleksandr Lukashenka Office of the President Dom Urada Vul. Karla Marksa 38 MINSK
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[PLACE],[DATE] 2012 Re: Mr Aleh Volchak - PASSPORT Your excellency, The Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (‘Stichting Advocaten voor Advocaten’) has expressed its grave concerns about the arrest of our colleague Aleh Volchak, a respected human rights lawyer. As a Dutch lawyer, I fully share these concerns. According to my information, on January 27, 2012, Mr Volchak was arrested in the street in the city centre of Minsk after visiting the local post office. Subsequently Mr Volchak was charged with hooliganism after his trial took place on Monday, 30 January. Furthermore, I have reason to believe that during the detention of Mr Volchak, the keys to his apartment were confiscated by representatives of the Centre for Isolation of Lawbreakers and the passport of Mr Volchak disappeared from his apartment, allegedly to establish his identity. Upon Mr. Volchak’s release from the detention facility on January 31, 2012, his passport was not returned to him and he is unaware of its current location. Mr. Volchak has been invited to take part in an international conference in London in the second half of February. He will be unable to travel if his passport remains in the possession of Minsk authorities or he is not issued with a new one. I would like to draw your attention specifically to the provisions of Article 12(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states:
If the Belarus authorities have seized and retained Mr Volchak’s passport, then it raises questions regarding the legality of this action. It is my understanding that it could take time to establish whereabouts of Mr. Volchak’s passport. I therefore urge the Belarusian authorities to either return Mr. Volchak’s passport immediately, if it is in their possession or if this is not the case, to issue him with a new passport as a matter of urgency, to ensure his attendance of the international conference in London. I would also like to respectfully draw your attention to Article 21:
By denying Mr Volchak access to a passport, the Belarus authorities are preventing him from attending the conference and thus fulfilling his valuable role as a human rights defender. Mr. Volchak’s participation in the conference is crucial and will give him a unique opportunity to represent Belarus in the presence of the international community. Moreover, I content that due to the nature of his work Aleh Volchak should be treated as a lawyer. I therefore urge the government of Belarus to recognize the valuable role played by human rights lawyers and to promote and support their work in line with the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1990, which provide for a number of rights and responsibilities for lawyers acting in their professional capacity. I respectfully would like to draw to your attention Article 16(a) and (c) which state:
These principles are universally applicable. Therefore, your government is under an obligation to adequately protect and support its lawyers. In view of the above, I urge your government, in compliance with its international human rights obligations, to return Mr. Volchak’s passport to him, or supply him with a new one, to enable him to leave the country and attend the international conference in London as he intended to. I thank you for your attention to this very important matter. I am confident of your good will and sense of justice and will continue to monitor this case closely. Yours sincerely, [NAME] BY AIRMAIL Administration of the President of Belarus Head of the Administration of the President of Belarus, Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Makei, Ul. K. Marksa 34, 220016 MINSK BELARUS Fax: + 375 17 2260610 [PLACE],[DATE] 2012
If the Belarus authorities have seized and retained Mr Volchak’s passport, then it raises questions regarding the legality of this action. It is my understanding that it could take time to establish whereabouts of Mr. Volchak’s passport. I therefore urge the Belarusian authorities to either return Mr. Volchak’s passport immediately, if it is in their possession or if this is not the case, to issue him with a new passport as a matter of urgency, to ensure his attendance of the international conference in London. I would also like to respectfully draw your attention to Article 21:
By denying Mr Volchak access to a passport, the Belarus authorities are preventing him from attending the conference and thus fulfilling his valuable role as a human rights defender. Mr. Volchak’s participation in the conference is crucial and will give him a unique opportunity to represent Belarus in the presence of the international community. Moreover, I content that due to the nature of his work Aleh Volchak should be treated as a lawyer. I therefore urge the government of Belarus to recognize the valuable role played by human rights lawyers and to promote and support their work in line with the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1990, which provide for a number of rights and responsibilities for lawyers acting in their professional capacity. I respectfully would like to draw to your attention Article 16(a) and (c) which state:
These principles are universally applicable. Therefore, your government is under an obligation to adequately protect and support its lawyers. In view of the above, I urge your government, in compliance with its international human rights obligations, to return Mr. Volchak’s passport to him, or supply him with a new one, to enable him to leave the country and attend the international conference in London as he intended to. I thank you for your attention to this very important matter. I am confident of your good will and sense of justice and will continue to monitor this case closely. Yours sincerely, [NAME] BY AIRMAIL Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Mr Martynov Sergei Nickolaevich, ul. Lenina 19, MINSK BELARUS Email: mail@mfa.gov.by [PLACE],[DATE] 2012
If the Belarus authorities have seized and retained Mr Volchak’s passport, then it raises questions regarding the legality of this action. It is my understanding that it could take time to establish whereabouts of Mr. Volchak’s passport. I therefore urge the Belarusian authorities to either return Mr. Volchak’s passport immediately, if it is in their possession or if this is not the case, to issue him with a new passport as a matter of urgency, to ensure his attendance of the international conference in London. I would also like to respectfully draw your attention to Article 21:
By denying Mr Volchak access to a passport, the Belarus authorities are preventing him from attending the conference and thus fulfilling his valuable role as a human rights defender. Mr. Volchak’s participation in the conference is crucial and will give him a unique opportunity to represent Belarus in the presence of the international community. Moreover, I content that due to the nature of his work Aleh Volchak should be treated as a lawyer. I therefore urge the government of Belarus to recognize the valuable role played by human rights lawyers and to promote and support their work in line with the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1990, which provide for a number of rights and responsibilities for lawyers acting in their professional capacity. I respectfully would like to draw to your attention Article 16(a) and (c) which state:
These principles are universally applicable. Therefore, your government is under an obligation to adequately protect and support its lawyers. In view of the above, I urge your government, in compliance with its international human rights obligations, to return Mr. Volchak’s passport to him, or supply him with a new one, to enable him to leave the country and attend the international conference in London as he intended to. I thank you for your attention to this very important matter. I am confident of your good will and sense of justice and will continue to monitor this case closely. Yours sincerely, [NAME] BY AIRMAIL Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Kuleshov Anataliy Nilovich, ul. Gorodskoi Val 2, MINSK 220050, BELARUS Fax +375172187602; Email dcm@mia.by [PLACE],[DATE] 2012 Re: Mr Aleh Volchak - PASSPORT Your excellency, The Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (‘Stichting Advocaten voor Advocaten’) has expressed its grave concerns about the arrest of our colleague Aleh Volchak, a respected human rights lawyer. As a Dutch lawyer, I fully share these concerns. According to my information, on January 27, 2012, Mr Volchak was arrested in the street in the city centre of Minsk after visiting the local post office. Subsequently Mr Volchak was charged with hooliganism after his trial took place on Monday, 30 January. Furthermore, I have reason to believe that during the detention of Mr Volchak, the keys to his apartment were confiscated by representatives of the Centre for Isolation of Lawbreakers and the passport of Mr Volchak disappeared from his apartment, allegedly to establish his identity. Upon Mr. Volchak’s release from the detention facility on January 31, 2012, his passport was not returned to him and he is unaware of its current location. Mr. Volchak has been invited to take part in an international conference in London in the second half of February. He will be unable to travel if his passport remains in the possession of Minsk authorities or he is not issued with a new one. I would like to draw your attention specifically to the provisions of Article 12(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states:
If the Belarus authorities have seized and retained Mr Volchak’s passport, then it raises questions regarding the legality of this action. It is my understanding that it could take time to establish whereabouts of Mr. Volchak’s passport. I therefore urge the Belarusian authorities to either return Mr. Volchak’s passport immediately, if it is in their possession or if this is not the case, to issue him with a new passport as a matter of urgency, to ensure his attendance of the international conference in London. I would also like to respectfully draw your attention to Article 21:
By denying Mr Volchak access to a passport, the Belarus authorities are preventing him from attending the conference and thus fulfilling his valuable role as a human rights defender. Mr. Volchak’s participation in the conference is crucial and will give him a unique opportunity to represent Belarus in the presence of the international community. Moreover, I content that due to the nature of his work Aleh Volchak should be treated as a lawyer. I therefore urge the government of Belarus to recognize the valuable role played by human rights lawyers and to promote and support their work in line with the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1990, which provide for a number of rights and responsibilities for lawyers acting in their professional capacity. I respectfully would like to draw to your attention Article 16(a) and (c) which state:
These principles are universally applicable. Therefore, your government is under an obligation to adequately protect and support its lawyers. In view of the above, I urge your government, in compliance with its international human rights obligations, to return Mr. Volchak’s passport to him, or supply him with a new one, to enable him to leave the country and attend the international conference in London as he intended to. I thank you for your attention to this very important matter. I am confident of your good will and sense of justice and will continue to monitor this case closely. Yours sincerely, [NAME] BY AIRMAIL General Prosecutor, Alexandr Vladimirovich Kanyuk, Internatsionalnaya str. 22, 220050 MINSK, BELARUS, Email: info@prokuratura.gov.by [PLACE],[DATE] 2012
If the Belarus authorities have seized and retained Mr Volchak’s passport, then it raises questions regarding the legality of this action. It is my understanding that it could take time to establish whereabouts of Mr. Volchak’s passport. I therefore urge the Belarusian authorities to either return Mr. Volchak’s passport immediately, if it is in their possession or if this is not the case, to issue him with a new passport as a matter of urgency, to ensure his attendance of the international conference in London. I would also like to respectfully draw your attention to Article 21:
By denying Mr Volchak access to a passport, the Belarus authorities are preventing him from attending the conference and thus fulfilling his valuable role as a human rights defender. Mr. Volchak’s participation in the conference is crucial and will give him a unique opportunity to represent Belarus in the presence of the international community. Moreover, I content that due to the nature of his work Aleh Volchak should be treated as a lawyer. I therefore urge the government of Belarus to recognize the valuable role played by human rights lawyers and to promote and support their work in line with the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1990, which provide for a number of rights and responsibilities for lawyers acting in their professional capacity. I respectfully would like to draw to your attention Article 16(a) and (c) which state:
These principles are universally applicable. Therefore, your government is under an obligation to adequately protect and support its lawyers. In view of the above, I urge your government, in compliance with its international human rights obligations, to return Mr. Volchak’s passport to him, or supply him with a new one, to enable him to leave the country and attend the international conference in London as he intended to. I thank you for your attention to this very important matter. I am confident of your good will and sense of justice and will continue to monitor this case closely. Yours sincerely, [NAME] BY AIRMAIL Minister of Justice of Belarus, Mr. Slizhevskiy Oleg Leonidovich, Ul. Kollektornaya, 10 220004 MINSK BELARUS Email kanc@minjust.by [PLACE],[DATE] 2012
If the Belarus authorities have seized and retained Mr Volchak’s passport, then it raises questions regarding the legality of this action. It is my understanding that it could take time to establish whereabouts of Mr. Volchak’s passport. I therefore urge the Belarusian authorities to either return Mr. Volchak’s passport immediately, if it is in their possession or if this is not the case, to issue him with a new passport as a matter of urgency, to ensure his attendance of the international conference in London. I would also like to respectfully draw your attention to Article 21:
By denying Mr Volchak access to a passport, the Belarus authorities are preventing him from attending the conference and thus fulfilling his valuable role as a human rights defender. Mr. Volchak’s participation in the conference is crucial and will give him a unique opportunity to represent Belarus in the presence of the international community. Moreover, I content that due to the nature of his work Aleh Volchak should be treated as a lawyer. I therefore urge the government of Belarus to recognize the valuable role played by human rights lawyers and to promote and support their work in line with the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1990, which provide for a number of rights and responsibilities for lawyers acting in their professional capacity. I respectfully would like to draw to your attention Article 16(a) and (c) which state:
These principles are universally applicable. Therefore, your government is under an obligation to adequately protect and support its lawyers. In view of the above, I urge your government, in compliance with its international human rights obligations, to return Mr. Volchak’s passport to him, or supply him with a new one, to enable him to leave the country and attend the international conference in London as he intended to. I thank you for your attention to this very important matter. I am confident of your good will and sense of justice and will continue to monitor this case closely. Yours sincerely, [NAME] BY AIRMAIL President of the Supreme Court of Belarus, Mr. Valentin Olegovich Sukalo Ul. Lenina, 28 220030 MINSK BELARUS Email: scjustrb@pmrb.gov.by [PLACE],[DATE] 2012 Re: Mr Aleh Volchak - PASSPORT Your excellency, The Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (‘Stichting Advocaten voor Advocaten’) has expressed its grave concerns about the arrest of our colleague Aleh Volchak, a respected human rights lawyer. As a Dutch lawyer, I fully share these concerns. According to my information, on January 27, 2012, Mr Volchak was arrested in the street in the city centre of Minsk after visiting the local post office. Subsequently Mr Volchak was charged with hooliganism after his trial took place on Monday, 30 January. Furthermore, I have reason to believe that during the detention of Mr Volchak, the keys to his apartment were confiscated by representatives of the Centre for Isolation of Lawbreakers and the passport of Mr Volchak disappeared from his apartment, allegedly to establish his identity. Upon Mr. Volchak’s release from the detention facility on January 31, 2012, his passport was not returned to him and he is unaware of its current location. Mr. Volchak has been invited to take part in an international conference in London in the second half of February. He will be unable to travel if his passport remains in the possession of Minsk authorities or he is not issued with a new one. I would like to draw your attention specifically to the provisions of Article 12(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states:
If the Belarus authorities have seized and retained Mr Volchak’s passport, then it raises questions regarding the legality of this action. It is my understanding that it could take time to establish whereabouts of Mr. Volchak’s passport. I therefore urge the Belarusian authorities to either return Mr. Volchak’s passport immediately, if it is in their possession or if this is not the case, to issue him with a new passport as a matter of urgency, to ensure his attendance of the international conference in London. I would also like to respectfully draw your attention to Article 21:
By denying Mr Volchak access to a passport, the Belarus authorities are preventing him from attending the conference and thus fulfilling his valuable role as a human rights defender. Mr. Volchak’s participation in the conference is crucial and will give him a unique opportunity to represent Belarus in the presence of the international community. Moreover, I content that due to the nature of his work Aleh Volchak should be treated as a lawyer. I therefore urge the government of Belarus to recognize the valuable role played by human rights lawyers and to promote and support their work in line with the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1990, which provide for a number of rights and responsibilities for lawyers acting in their professional capacity. I respectfully would like to draw to your attention Article 16(a) and (c) which state:
These principles are universally applicable. Therefore, your government is under an obligation to adequately protect and support its lawyers. In view of the above, I urge your government, in compliance with its international human rights obligations, to return Mr. Volchak’s passport to him, or supply him with a new one, to enable him to leave the country and attend the international conference in London as he intended to. I thank you for your attention to this very important matter. I am confident of your good will and sense of justice and will continue to monitor this case closely. Yours sincerely, [NAME] BY AIRMAIL Permanent Mission of Belarus to the United Nations in Geneva, 15 avenue de la paix 1211 GENEVA 20 SWITZERLAND Fax: +41 22 748 24 51 Email: mission.belarus@ties.itu.int [PLACE],[DATE] 2012 Re: Mr Aleh Volchak - PASSPORT Your excellency, The Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (‘Stichting Advocaten voor Advocaten’) has expressed its grave concerns about the arrest of our colleague Aleh Volchak, a respected human rights lawyer. As a Dutch lawyer, I fully share these concerns. According to my information, on January 27, 2012, Mr Volchak was arrested in the street in the city centre of Minsk after visiting the local post office. Subsequently Mr Volchak was charged with hooliganism after his trial took place on Monday, 30 January. Furthermore, I have reason to believe that during the detention of Mr Volchak, the keys to his apartment were confiscated by representatives of the Centre for Isolation of Lawbreakers and the passport of Mr Volchak disappeared from his apartment, allegedly to establish his identity. Upon Mr. Volchak’s release from the detention facility on January 31, 2012, his passport was not returned to him and he is unaware of its current location. Mr. Volchak has been invited to take part in an international conference in London in the second half of February. He will be unable to travel if his passport remains in the possession of Minsk authorities or he is not issued with a new one. I would like to draw your attention specifically to the provisions of Article 12(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states:
If the Belarus authorities have seized and retained Mr Volchak’s passport, then it raises questions regarding the legality of this action. It is my understanding that it could take time to establish whereabouts of Mr. Volchak’s passport. I therefore urge the Belarusian authorities to either return Mr. Volchak’s passport immediately, if it is in their possession or if this is not the case, to issue him with a new passport as a matter of urgency, to ensure his attendance of the international conference in London. I would also like to respectfully draw your attention to Article 21:
By denying Mr Volchak access to a passport, the Belarus authorities are preventing him from attending the conference and thus fulfilling his valuable role as a human rights defender. Mr. Volchak’s participation in the conference is crucial and will give him a unique opportunity to represent Belarus in the presence of the international community. Moreover, I content that due to the nature of his work Aleh Volchak should be treated as a lawyer. I therefore urge the government of Belarus to recognize the valuable role played by human rights lawyers and to promote and support their work in line with the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1990, which provide for a number of rights and responsibilities for lawyers acting in their professional capacity. I respectfully would like to draw to your attention Article 16(a) and (c) which state:
These principles are universally applicable. Therefore, your government is under an obligation to adequately protect and support its lawyers. In view of the above, I urge your government, in compliance with its international human rights obligations, to return Mr. Volchak’s passport to him, or supply him with a new one, to enable him to leave the country and attend the international conference in London as he intended to. I thank you for your attention to this very important matter. I am confident of your good will and sense of justice and will continue to monitor this case closely. Yours sincerely, [NAME] Ambassade of the Republic of Belarus Anna Paulownastraat 34 2518 Den Haag NEDERLAND Fax: 070 – 364-05-55 [PLACE],[DATE] 2012 Re: Mr Aleh Volchak - PASSPORT Your excellency, The Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (‘Stichting Advocaten voor Advocaten’) has expressed its grave concerns about the arrest of our colleague Aleh Volchak, a respected human rights lawyer. As a Dutch lawyer, I fully share these concerns. According to my information, on January 27, 2012, Mr Volchak was arrested in the street in the city centre of Minsk after visiting the local post office. Subsequently Mr Volchak was charged with hooliganism after his trial took place on Monday, 30 January. Furthermore, I have reason to believe that during the detention of Mr Volchak, the keys to his apartment were confiscated by representatives of the Centre for Isolation of Lawbreakers and the passport of Mr Volchak disappeared from his apartment, allegedly to establish his identity. Upon Mr. Volchak’s release from the detention facility on January 31, 2012, his passport was not returned to him and he is unaware of its current location. Mr. Volchak has been invited to take part in an international conference in London in the second half of February. He will be unable to travel if his passport remains in the possession of Minsk authorities or he is not issued with a new one. I would like to draw your attention specifically to the provisions of Article 12(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which states:
If the Belarus authorities have seized and retained Mr Volchak’s passport, then it raises questions regarding the legality of this action. It is my understanding that it could take time to establish whereabouts of Mr. Volchak’s passport. I therefore urge the Belarusian authorities to either return Mr. Volchak’s passport immediately, if it is in their possession or if this is not the case, to issue him with a new passport as a matter of urgency, to ensure his attendance of the international conference in London. I would also like to respectfully draw your attention to Article 21:
By denying Mr Volchak access to a passport, the Belarus authorities are preventing him from attending the conference and thus fulfilling his valuable role as a human rights defender. Mr. Volchak’s participation in the conference is crucial and will give him a unique opportunity to represent Belarus in the presence of the international community. Moreover, I content that due to the nature of his work Aleh Volchak should be treated as a lawyer. I therefore urge the government of Belarus to recognize the valuable role played by human rights lawyers and to promote and support their work in line with the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, adopted by the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in 1990, which provide for a number of rights and responsibilities for lawyers acting in their professional capacity. I respectfully would like to draw to your attention Article 16(a) and (c) which state:
These principles are universally applicable. Therefore, your government is under an obligation to adequately protect and support its lawyers. In view of the above, I urge your government, in compliance with its international human rights obligations, to return Mr. Volchak’s passport to him, or supply him with a new one, to enable him to leave the country and attend the international conference in London as he intended to. I thank you for your attention to this very important matter. I am confident of your good will and sense of justice and will continue to monitor this case closely. Yours sincerely, [NAME] Yüklə 164,06 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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