14.07.2009 Warned for organizing School for Young Journalists
An organizer of the Slonim-based School for Young Journalists, civil activist Ales Masiuk, has been issued an official warning.
The activist of the BPF Youth Pavel Chuduk has been expelled from the second year of the theological faculty of the Belarusian State University. He encountered problems after a trip to Sweden, where he monitored the elections to the European Parliament.
An experimental military and patriotic camp for teenagers is opened near Minsk. Teenagers will run battle marches, shoot from combat arms and have trainings with the riot police militia, STV channel reports. By the way, it is riot police who is responsible for groundless violence against participants of peaceful demonstrations.
On 8 July the article titled RBU leader granted amnesty in honour of the 65th anniversary of liberation of Belarus from Nazi troops was published on the website www.charter97.org . The article told how one of the leaders of the so called Russian National Unity (RNU) in Homel didn’t carry condign punishment for beating people, but was convicted under Article 193,1 ‘activity on behalf of an unregistered organization’ and granted amnesty before the judgment of conviction took effect.