News for 12 May 2009
12.05.2009 Mahiliou: court turns down striker’s complaint
On 12 May Kastrychnitski district court of Mahiliou turned down the complaint of the activist of the Free Trade Union Belarus (FTUB), employee of Lausanbud enterprise Mikalai Rasiuk.
12.05.2009 Mahiliou: fine for religious activities
According to information of the BelaPAN, on 11 May the judge of Kastrychnitski district court of Mahiliou Iryna Tsiaplova fined the entrepreneur Liudmila Batsiuk, member of the international organization House on the Rock 140 000 rubles (about $50) for illegal religious activities.
12.05.2009 Military court refuses to confess drafting of Franak Viachorka unlawful
Belarusian Military Court left in force the verdict of the inter-garrison military court, according to which the forced drafting of Franak Viachorka into the army corresponded to the national legislation.
12.05.2009 Belarusian Christian Democracy Party gets no registration
Co-chairmen of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party call the decision of the authorities illegal and ungrounded. According to them, the Justice Ministry has simply executed a political order.
12.05.2009 No premises for Congress of Belarusians
On 7 May the Republican Art gallery in Minsk, owned by the Artists’ Union, refused to lend premises to the World Alliance of Belarusians Batskawshchyna the premises for holding the 5th Congress of the organization.
12.05.2009 Brest: desecration of monument to ghetto prisoners
The monument to ghetto prisoners in Brest center at intersection of Dziarzhynsk and Kuibyshau Streets, was desecrated in the night of 9-10 May.
12.05.2009 Democratic activist beaten for T-shirt with ‘Pahonia’ coat of arms
Hooligans beat the democratic activist Ales Tsialehin. The victim told RFE/RL he was walking with an entrepreneur for a meeting. Two unknown young men came up to them near the Kuntsaushchyna metro station and asked why he was wearing a T-shirt with Pahonia .
12.05.2009 ‘Young Social Democrats’ denied registration
The Ministry of Justice of Belarus refused to register the pubic association Young Social Democrats – Young Hramada.
12.05.2009 Professor Andrei Kaliada beaten by Russian commando
A barbarous occurrence took place on 10 May in Minsk: a Russian special purpose troops ("spetsnaz") officer with 10 years of fighting experience in Chechnya cruelly beat up Professor Andrei Kaliada.
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