Igor Karmazin, reporter of the Moskovsky Komsomolets Russian newspaper, has been deported from Belarus after arranging a number of interviews with former Belarusian political prisoners and their families, including Mikita Likhavid and Iryna Khalip, European Radio for Belarus reports.
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.
Following theyesterday's detention at the Human Rights Center Viasna, officers of the migration service issued the Russian human rights defenders Alik Mnatsnakyan and Viktoryia Gromova with written prescriptions to leave the territory of Belarus within 24 hours. The detainees were also put on the list of the people who are banned entry to Belarus for two years.
The Kyiv human rights defender Maryna Tsapok was going to Belarus to help the International Observing Mission of the Committee for International Control over the situation with HR in Belarus. She is one of the initiators of the civil campaign For Open Entry to the Republic of Belarus in Ukraine.
Today, on 9 March 2011 at 3:20 am, while crossing the border by train Kyiv - Minsk, the assistant to the Representative of the International Observation Mission of the Committee on International Control over the Situation with Human Rights in Belarus, member of the “Foundation for Regional Initiatives” (organization – participant of the Committee), citizen of the Ukraine Maxim Kitsyuk was denied entry to the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
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