News for June 2011
17.06.2011 Andrei Pachobut’s trial to continue on June 23
It has become known that the experts have expanded their conclusion about Pachobut’s articles. The charges used to be listed on two pages and now they take 5. They have given a more detailed explanation of the things that insulted Lukashenka in those articles.
17.06.2011 Ruslan Ustsimenka fined 770 thousand rubles
Homel Central District Court has decided that he used bad language at the silent action of solidarity on June 15.
16.06.2011 Minsk authorities ban all rallies in city center
On 2 June, Mikalai Ladutska, chair of Minsk city executive committee, approved decision #1554 on authorized rally locations in the city center.
16.06.2011 Support prisoners of conscience!
Friends! Our letters to prisons may become a considerable support for the prisoners of conscience, illegally convicted in the criminal cases initiated following the 19 December 2010 events in Minsk. Apart from that, several persons are currently serving sentences pronounced in so-called “anarchists’ case”.
16.06.2011 More “Bruzhi” participants stand trial
People who were noticed in photos and videos will stand trial today.
16.06.2011 Homel Regional Prosecutor’s Office to run extra check-up on presidential election violations
On 6 June, Homel activists of the For Free Elections civil campaign engaged in election observation during the 2010 presidential election received a reply from Homel Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
16.06.2011 LGBT activist beaten by police
Siarhei Androsenka, activist of the GayBelarus movement, together with two unknown persons was detained by Minsk police during a demonstration last evening.
16.06.2011 Aftermath of Network Revolution: over 240 persons detained across Belarus
At least 240 demonstrators were detained by the police last evening, as several thousand protesters took part in a peaceful rally “Revolution through Social Network” across the country on 15 June.
15.06.2011 Procuracy brought criminal case against blogger Yauhen Lipkovich
The Prosecutor General of Belarus initiated a criminal case concerning insult of the national flag in Yauhen Lipkovich’s blog.
15.06.2011 Ales Bialiatski: “Freedom Award is an echo of 19 December events”
Ales Bialiatski, Chair of the Human Rights Center Viasna, commented on awarding the Freedom Prize to Viasna, the Belarusian Association of Journalists and the Free Theater by the Atlantic Council of the United States.
15.06.2011 Anatol Shumchanka summonsed to procuracy
One of the leaders of the entrepreneur movement, Chair of the civil association Perspective Anatol Shumchanka received a writ to the Leninski District Procuracy for 12 a.m. on 15 June.
15.06.2011 Brest: detention of civil activist Ivan Stasiuk
"Ivan called me at 11.30 p.m. and managed to tell that he was in the Maskouski District Police Department of Brest. His mobile is off at the moment, and the duty officer of the department says that the youngster was not delivered there," said a member of the United Civil Party, Uladzimir Vuyek.
15.06.2011 Members of Norwegian Helsinki Committee not let in Belarus
Two members of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, a citizen of Russia Ina Sangazhyeva and a citizen of the Ukraine Volha Shamshur took a flight from Frankfurt to Minsk by their personal business. However, the Belarusian customs officers didn’t let them in Belarus.
15.06.2011 UPB Activist Ihar Bantsar sentenced to 5 days of arrest
Journalist Andrzej Pisalnik said that Ihar Bantsar, an activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus, was sentenced to five days of arrest.
14.06.2011 Hrodna: trial of journalist Andzhei Pachobut started
On 14 June the Leninski District Court of Hrodna started closed proceedings in the criminal case against Andzhei Pachobut, correspondent with the Polish weekly Gazeta Wyborcza. The journalist is charged under two articles of the Criminal Code: Article 368, part 1, “defamation of president”, and Article 367, part 1 “libel against president”, and faces 2-4 years of imprisonment. He spent two months in jail before the trial.
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