News for August 2007

03.08.2007 Activists Try ‘Washing White’ Sovetskaya Belorussiya

Yesterday at 7p.m. the youth activists decided to celebrate Sovetskaya Belorussiya state newspaper‘s birthday by laundering it.

03.08.2007 Punitive Psychiatry Back Again?

Association for Human Rights Defense International (A HRDI) initiated foundation of the independent psychiatric commission of experts. The decision was grounded, according to human rights activists, by the facts of the repressive psychiatry towards Belarusian nationals.

02.08.2007 Anatol Liabedzka Complains to Prosecutor’s Office

The leader of United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka has applied to the General prosecutor’s office of Belarus concerning his detention on 27 July, during celebration of the 17th anniversary of the State Sovereignty Declaration by the united democratic forces.

Minsk: Police Detain Youth Activists in Apartment Rented by Krystsina Shatsikava

02.08.2007 Minsk: Police Detain Youth Activists in Apartment Rented by Krystsina Shatsikava

Last night persons in mufti who introduced themselves as workers of the police department of organized crimes burst into an apartment in Paliavaya Street 26 in Minsk, which was rented by the public activist Krystsina Shatsikava. The policemen stated that they suspected those who were there in illegal stay in the apartment which was owned by another person and in property theft. They also wrote it in the detention reports.

02.08.2007 Fine for One Sticker

On 1 August Leninski borough administrative commission of Hrodna fined a member of Belarusian People’s Front Party Stsiapan Svidzerski about 56 US dollars. He was found guilty of having violated article 21.14 of the Administrative Code (violation of the sanitation rules in towns and cities) for having posted a sticker on the building in Savetskaya Street 15.

01.08.2007 Minsk: Police Detain Activists of Campaign for Protection of Freedom of Conscience

On 27 July in Minsk the police detained Zmitser Butenka and Andrei Litsvinau, activists of the campaign for protection of freedom of conscience, members of Minsk church New Life of the Association of Christian Denominations of Full Evangel in the Republic of Belarus. According to the information given to BelaPAN by the church lawyer Siarhei Lukanin, the youngsters were heading for St. Symon and Alena church in Nezalezhnastsi Square, where there they intended to collect signatures for amendment of the law on religion. However, at about 4 p.m. near Minsk hotel they were detained by the police.

01.08.2007 Administrative Case against Ales Shulzhytski ‘Expires’

On 30 July judge of Smarhon district court Aliaksandr Dziameshchyk stopped an administrative case against a public activist Uladzimir Shulzhytski because of expiry of the 3-month term for the case consideration.

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