News for March 2006

31.03.2006 ALEXANDER KAZULIN CHARGED WITH TWO CRIMES

31.03.2006 THE PERSON SEVERELY BEATEN DURING VIOLENT DISPERSAL OF THE PEACEFUL RALLY IS ULADZIMIR SHADENKA, 65, FROM VITEBSK DISTRICT.

31.03.2006 NO BTV IN LITHUANIA

31.03.2006 Head of Polish Consulate Visits ex-Ambassador in the Intensive Care Unit

31.03.2006 Fined for Spreading Brochure with Report by the UN Human Rights Rapporteur on Belarus

31.03.2006 FLASH MOB ON MINSK SQUARE

31.03.2006 POLISH EX AMBASSADOR TO BELARUS TAKEN FROM JAIL TO HOSPITAL

31.03.2006 Milinkevich’s and Kazulin’s HQs to Demand Recognition of Election Results Invalid

31.03.2006 Sviatlahorsk Pensioner Fined 45 USD

31.03.2006 SCHOOL GIRL TRIED BY “GROWN-UP” COURT

31.03.2006 POLICE SEARCH APARTMENTS OF YOUNG FRONT ACTIVISTS

31.03.2006 Andrej Dynko is the editor-in-chief Nasha Niva, the oldest Belarusian-language weekly newspaper in Belarus. Founded in 1906, it turns 100 in November. On 21 March Andrej Dynko was arrested in the centre of Minsk near the tent camp.

29.03.2006 Head of Brest Milinkevich’s HQ Still in Hospital

29.03.2006 Police Seizes Freedom Bell

29.03.2006 Narodnaya Volya Fails to Come Out After Election

29.03.2006 Rahachou Court Justifies Local Businessman

29.03.2006 THE CANADIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRES DEMANDS TO RELEASE THE CANADIAN JOURNALIST DETAINED IN BELARUS

29.03.2006 Milinkevich’s and Kazulin’s HQs to Appeal agaisnt Election Results

29.03.2006 Group of Citizens Appeals to Head of Brest Police Demanding to Release 15 Activists

29.03.2006 LIST OF JOURNALISTS, PROSECUTED FOR CARRYING OUT PROFESSIONAL DUTIES

29.03.2006 Head of Milinkevich Brest HQ in Infectious Diseases Hospital

29.03.2006 KGB PRESS CHARGES AGAINST 4 YOUTH ACTIVISTS

28.03.2006 List of the Detained and Arrested, Updated March 28, 5.45 p.m.

25.03.2006 UNION OF POLES ACTIVIST ARRESTED FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT

25.03.2006 DEUTSCHE WELLE REPORTER SENTENCED TO 7 DAYS OF JAIL

24.03.2006 3.45 A.M. POLICE DESTROY PROTESTERS’ CAMP AT KASTRYCHNITSKAYA SQUARE The detained are kept at Akrestsina jail and in the buses which stand in the yards of police departments and courts. The detained will be tried by Frunzenski, Maskouski, Kastrychnitski, Zavodzki, Savetski and Centralny courts. For information about your friends and family members please contact officer on duty of Minsk City Police Department: 227-02-21, 227-02-21 Telephone number of Akrestsina jail : 270-91-42 The list of the detained during the night of March 23-24 (UPDATED at 3.45 p.m. on Macrh 24)

24.03.2006 The list of the detained and convicted on March 21-23 (UPDATED at 10.45a.m. on Macrh 24)

23.03.2006 MAHILOU POLICE DETAINS ACTIVISTS OF MILINKEVICH’S AND KAZULIN’S HQs

23.03.2006 VORSHA ACTIVIST GOES ON HUNGER STRIKE

23.03.2006 13 PROTESTERS SENTENCED IN VITEBSK