News for December 2008
10.12.2008 Minsk: dispersal of opposition rally near central KGB office
On 10 December youth activists dressed in stripped prison clothing protested near the central office of the State Security Committee (KGB).
10.12.2008 Entrepreneurs declare hunger-strike against Lukashenka’s decree
On 10 December Belarusian market vendors all over the country hold a protest rally against Alexander Lukashenka’s decrees aimed at ruining their business.
10.12.2008 Brest: detention for white-red-white flag
Activists of For Freedom movement Yury Bakur and Andrei Sharenda have been detained in Brest. They hanged out a white-red-white flag on the building of Brest State pedagogical University, to mark the Human Rights Day. The huge white-red-white flag was attached to the flagpole of the Brest State pedagogical University.
10.12.2008 Political activists who are banned to travel abroad bring complaints to Lukashenka
The protest rally of oppositionists who are banned to leave the country has taken place in Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk today.
10.12.2008 Hrodna: arrest of human rights activists
Human rights activists of Hrodna organized a street action dedicated to the 60th anniversary of proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Members of human rights organizations were distributing UDHR texts among Hrodna dwellers.
09.12.2008 Brest: policemen demand explanations from distributors of ‘Narodnaya Volia’
On 9 December young activists handed for free the issues of the officially registered newspaper Narodnaya Volia for the last two months in Pushkinskaya Street in Brest. In such a way they tried to encourage people to buy the newspaper to buy the newspaper after its return to the newsstands.
09.12.2008 Brest: detentions on the eve of the 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On 9 December at a mini-market in Brest the police detained Valiantsin Lazarenka and Zinaida Mikhniuk, activists of the local independent trade unions. They handed out invitations to the authorized meeting scheduled for 10 December.
09.12.2008 Alexander Barazenka is sentenced to one year of personal restraint
The hearings on the criminal case against Alexander Barazenka at Tsentralny district court came to an end. Procurator Tsikhavets demanded that the accused was sentenced to 18 months of personal restraint without direction to an open prison. Alexander Barazenka did not take the blame.
09.12.2008 Trial over Barazenka: riot policeman outrage state symbols
Opposition activists flied a flag near the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk. Hearings in the case of political prisoner Alexander Barazenka are taking place today. Rallies of solidarity with the prisoner of conscience are held in front of the building of the court for the second day. Oppositionists are holding a streamer ‘Freedom to Barazenka!’, shouting ‘Freedom to political prisoners!’, ‘Long live Belarus!’
09.12.2008 Communist secretary and BRSM ‘specialist’ Tsiukhai organizes provocation at political trial
RFE/RL found out the name of a person who took students of Belarusian Agricultural Technical University to the trial over the political prisoner and insulted Alexander Barazenka’s mother.
08.12.2008 Trial over Barazenka: policemen beat youth leader Andrei Kim
Policemen in mufti beat the youth leader Andrei Kim near Tsentralny district court of Minsk, where the political prisoner Alexander Barazenka was tried. Kim was beaten when Barazenka was being taken out of the court and the people who came to support him started chanting ‘Freedom!’ and ‘Long Live Belarus!’ Three policemen in mufti assaulted him.
08.12.2008 Tax inspection prepares New Year surprise for Anatol Liabedzka
The leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka received from the Ministry of Dues and Taxes the demand for ‘giving explanations’ within 30 days. According to this document, he must give written explanations about the financial sources from which he covered his expenses, including the dates, the way he received the money and the received sums. The demand is signed by the deputy head of the tax inspection, the head of the small business control department Dzmitry Saladukhin.
08.12.2008 Tax inspection prepares New Year surprise for Anatol Liabedzka
The leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka received from the Ministry of Dues and Taxes the demand for ‘giving explanations’ within 30 days. According to this document, he must give written explanations about the financial sources from which he covered his expenses, including the dates, the way he received the money and the received sums. The demand is signed by the deputy head of the tax inspection, the head of the small business control department Dzmitry Saladukhin.
08.12.2008 Barysau: provocation against civil activists
Liudmila Salash, mother of the leader of Barysau organization of the BPF Party Siarhei Salash received a letter from the organized crime department of Barysau district executive committee a letter informing about instigation of a criminal case against the official of the local branch of the State Control Committee Auramenka and an entrepreneur Rybkin, after an anti-corruption letter, allegedly signed by her, the editor of the independent newspaper Borisovskiye Novosti Anatol Bukas and five more citizens, had been received by the executive committee.
08.12.2008 State saves money at the expense of medics’ wages
Medical professionals of one of the out-patient hospitals in Kobryn left working places protesting against cancelled advance of salary.
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