The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

News for January 2003

31.01.2003 PROSECUTOR LOST SALARY BONUSES BECAUSE OF COMPLAINT FILED BY ELECTION CANDIDATE BREST VIASNA LAWYER ULADZIMIR MALEI

PROSECUTOR LOST SALARY BONUSES BECAUSE OF COMPLAINT FILED BY ELECTION CANDIDATE BREST VIASNA LAWYER ULADZIMIR MALEI

31.01.2003 AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO PUT PRESSURE ON LOCAL CANDIDATES. VIASNA MEMBER ALES KAPUTSKI FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES

AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO PUT PRESSURE ON LOCAL CANDIDATES. VIASNA MEMBER ALES KAPUTSKI FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES

31.01.2003 INFRINGERS OF ELECTION LEGISLATION BECOME MEMBERS OF ELECTION COMMISSIONS AGAIN

INFRINGERS OF ELECTION LEGISLATION BECOME MEMBERS OF ELECTION COMMISSIONS AGAIN

31.01.2003 MP IVAN PASHKEVICH PERSECUTED FOR STANDING AGAINST DISCRIMINATION LAW "ON FREEDOM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS"

MP IVAN PASHKEVICH PERSECUTED FOR STANDING AGAINST DISCRIMINATION LAW "ON FREEDOM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS"

31.01.2003 PICKETER SENTENCED TO 10 DAYS OF JAIL

PICKETER SENTENCED TO 10 DAYS OF JAIL

31.01.2003 BUSINESSMAN GETS 15 DAYS OF JAIL

BUSINESSMAN GETS 15 DAYS OF JAIL

30.01.2003 On 2 January unknown people entered the office of the Cinematographers' Union and sealed the rooms of "Tatsiana" studio and the study studio of the Union. Later it was found out the strangers were officers of Committee of State Control, financial police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Kasia Kamotskaya talks to Volha Mikalaichyk, head of the study studio, and Yury Khashchavatski, its art director and author "Ordinary President", "Russian Fortune", "Oasis", and many other films.

On 2 January unknown people entered the office of the Cinematographers' Union and sealed the rooms of "Tatsiana" studio and the study studio of the Union. Later it was found out the strangers were officers of Committee of State Control, financial police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Kasia Kamotskaya talks to Volha Mikalaichyk, head of the study studio, and Yury Khashchavatski, its art director and author "Ordinary President", "Russian Fortune", "Oasis", and many other films.