News for January 2006
31.01.2006 The Central Election Commission reported that the collection of signatures for the candidates to the position of President did not have any "obstacles and significant conflicts.”
31.01.2006 Ivantsevichy prison witnesses mass hunger-strike
27.01.2006 The head of the Aliaxandr Milinkievich initiative group, Aliaxandr Bukhvostau demands the right to appear on Belarusian television, saying that Viktar Sheiman "is presenting to the voters untrue information".
27.01.2006 In Astrautsy the police searched the apartment of Ivan Kruk, a collector of signatures for Aliaxandr Milinkievich
27.01.2006 Svietlahorsk District Branch of Belarusian Language Association named after Frantsishak Skaryna (BLA) still does not have premises.
27.01.2006 The report of the special reporter about human rights in Belarus is viewed as a threat to the regime of Lukashenka.
27.01.2006 On 26 January Andrei Pachobut was called to the regional procurator’s office for explanations
26.01.2006 Secretary General of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Guy Rider demanded that Aliaxandr Lukashenka stop persecution of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union members in Hrodna Azot.
26.01.2006 In Minsk downtown on 25 January the police detained four members of the Zianon Pazniak initiative group
26.01.2006 The KGB officer had a “pre-emptive talk” with Volha Siemchanka, a student of a Mahilou university and an activist of the youth democratic organizations Volha Siemchanka.
26.01.2006 Initiative groups of the opposition election candidates demand equal access to television.
25.01.2006 Incumbent president fully administrative leverage, the initiative groups of other candiates have to face obvious obstacles
25.01.2006 A print run of the unregistered Krychau newspaper Volny horad is still at the disposal of law enforcement agencies.
25.01.2006 Homel Regional Court rejected a cassation complaint filed by a Narodnaia Volia reader regarding the refusal of the Chykhunachny Borough Court to consider the suit against the republican communications company Belposhta.
25.01.2006 Foreigners are limited entry to Belarus
24.01.2006 They do not want to sign signature lists for Aliaxandr Milinkievich
24.01.2006 During a meeting of the Committee for Religions and Nationalities of the Council of Ministers of Belarus, the new head of this department mentions an increased level of trust believers place with governmental controlling authorities as a guarantor of stability in the country and protection of their constitutional rights.
24.01.2006 In Rechytsy they set fire to a car owned by the Fralou team
24.01.2006 Mechyslau Hryb, the head of the Aliaxandr Kazulin initiative group, applied to Central Election Committee with yet another complaint.
24.01.2006 New director of Literature Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus supports intensification of the ideological work
24.01.2006 Ministry of Justice demands that the public association Belarusian Factory of Thoughts be suspended for three months
24.01.2006 The City Prosecutor of Krupki issued an official warning to Andrei Klimau, a political prisoner
24.01.2006 Former deputy Siarhei Skrabiets still refuses to participate in trial and continues his hunger-strike
24.01.2006 The deputy of the head of the Conservative Christian BPF Party Siarhei Papkou was detained by the police
23.01.2006 Belarusian Union of Youth and Children’s Associations Rada is under threat of liquidation
23.01.2006 The collectors of signatures for Milinkevich in Brest are accused of buying signatures
23.01.2006 The rights of the members of the initiative group of the united opposition candidate are violated
23.01.2006 Viktar Zhinhel, the Prosecutor of the Maskouski Borough, arrested an activist of the Young Front Zmitsier Kaspiarovich
23.01.2006 Information about violations made by collectors of signatures still continue to come
23.01.2006 The leader of the Young Front in salihorsk, Siarzhuk Marchyk, is going to appeal the illegal verdict
