News for 3 Aug 2011

03.08.2011 General Prosecutor refused to discuss violations of civil rights and liberties in Belarus

Ryhor Vasilevich answered the address of the opposition politicians who proposed him to discuss violations of rights and liberties in the country. A copy of the answer was received by Anatol Liabedzka, Chair of the United Civil Party.

Amnesty International: Belarus must drop draconian draft laws banning "silent protests"

03.08.2011 Amnesty International: Belarus must drop draconian draft laws banning "silent protests"

The Belarusian government’s proposal to ban almost any kind of protest is yet another assault on the Belarusian people’s right to freedom of expression and assembly, Amnesty International said today.

03.08.2011 Opposition activist Vintsuk Viachorka interrogated about his interviews

On 3 August Vintsuk Viachorka asnwered questions of Kanstantsin Hlaunitski, investigator of the Minsk City Procuracy, for about 30 minutes.

Navapolatsk authorities changed their ruling on mass events to ban picket in support of Mikita Likhavid

03.08.2011 Navapolatsk authorities changed their ruling on mass events to ban picket in support of Mikita Likhavid

On 18 July democratic activists, including members of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, the For Freedom movement and the Human Rights Center Viasna applied to the Navapolatsk Town Executive Committee with the request to authorize a picket in support of political prisoner Mikita Likhavid who is subject to constant pressurization in jail.

03.08.2011 Andrei Bandarenka: there is no public control over penal colonies and pre-trial prisons

“We can draw many examples of torture in the Belarusian prisons,” Andrei Bandarenka, a representative of the civil association Platform, who had spent almost two years behind bars for alleged swindle and was released because of “absence of corpus delicti”, stated in his interview with BelSat.

03.08.2011 General Procuracy finished check-up on appeal of European Radio journalists

Nasta Mantsevich, Pavel Sviardlou and Andrei Yeliseyeu, journalists for the European Radio for Belarus which has an official accreditation in Belarus, suffered from unlawful actions of people in mufti during the silent protest actions that were held in Minsk in June-July. Pavel Sviardlou was detained twice.

Horki: action in support of political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich ended with detentions

03.08.2011 Horki: action in support of political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich ended with detentions

About 30 people arrived to the colony in Horki on 2 August. They demanded that political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich was allowed to meet with his lawyer. The colony's administration refuses to let the lawyer in until receiving a corresponding request from Dashkevich himself.

03.08.2011 People address Lukashenka asking to mitigate penalty to Zmitser Bandarenka

Public activists held an action “Save Zmitser Bandarenka” in Minsk on 2 August. They lodged personal petitions to the chancellery of the Presidential Administration asking to mitigate the punishment to politician Zmitser Bandarenka.

03.08.2011 Authorities want mother of political prisoner Zmitser Novik to make him beg pardon

The mother of political prisoner Zmitser Novik was offered to persuade her son to write a petition for pardon.

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