News for 13 Apr 2012

13.04.2012 Political prisoners are swapped

Mikalai Dziadok has been transferred from the Mahiliou colony to the Shklou colony, Artsiom Prakapenka – vice-versa. Relatives are going for a long-term meeting with Aliaksandr Frantskevich. Ihar Alinevich makes inventions at the Navapolatsk colony.

13.04.2012 Statkevich shared cell with a person ill with tuberculosis

The former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich was kept in the same cell with a prisoner who had been ill with tuberculosis, for more than two months. This was found out by his wife Maryna Adamovich.

13.04.2012 Search at apartment of “Young Front” activists

In the morning of 13 April the police searched an apartment which was rented by activists of “Young Front”. When one of them came home, he saw that the windows were opened, their belongings were scattered on the floor, and white-red-white flags and agitation materials disappeared.

13.04.2012 Siarhei Kavalenka stops hunger-strike

RFE/RL learned it from the father of the political prisoner, Aliaksandr Kavalenka, who visited his son in the psychiatric hospital in Minsk.

Anastasiya Shuleika and Yury Khodus get their belongings back

13.04.2012 Anastasiya Shuleika and Yury Khodus get their belongings back

The activists were detained during the opening of the memorial sign "River of Memory" on 11 April and held in detention during one night. On 12 April the Leninski District Court fined them 2 and 1.5 million rubles for "disorderly conduct" (Article 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Violations).

Yan Dziarzhautsau proposes authorities to join organization of pickets

13.04.2012 Yan Dziarzhautsau proposes authorities to join organization of pickets

Vitsebsk activist of the Conservative-Christian Party "Belarusian Popular Front" Yan Dziarzhautsau filed applications for authorization of 6 more pickets with the three district executive committees of Vitsebsk.

Court turns down the appeal of Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh

13.04.2012 Court turns down the appeal of Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh

On 12 April Iryna Kavalevich, Judge of the Tsentralny District Court of Homel rejected the appeal of a police pensioner and demoratic activist Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh, who demanded that 9 mln rubles be exacted from the police for 3 days of unlawful detention.

13.04.2012 Detentions in Smaliavichy

Activists of "Tell the Truth" campaign and chair of Rechanka gardeners' partnership were detained in Smaliavichy.

Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in March 2012

13.04.2012 Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in March 2012

In March, the human rights situation was strongly dependent on the developments in the foreign policy The unresolved issue of political prisoners increased the confrontation between the Belarusian authorities and the European Union: the reluctance of the official Minsk to eliminate the root cause of the conflict faced a tough and consistent position of the EU.

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