News for May 2009
09.05.2009 Zmitser Fedaruk is returned to military unit
A leader of the Young Front Zmitser Khvedaruk, who was forcedly drafted into the army, is sent back to the military unit. The decision was issued by the medical commission of the main military clinical medical center of the Armed forces #432, after Zmitser spent a week at this institution for being examined by medics.
09.05.2009 Pressurization of Astravets activists continues
On 5 May a police officer visited the apartment of the member of the organizing committee of the civil initiative Astravets nuclear power station is a crime Ivan Kruk to interrogate the latter concerning distribution of the informational materials dedicated to the 23rd anniversary of Chernobyl accident and the official plans of constructing a nuclear power station in Astravets.
09.05.2009 Vadzim Kanapatski filed complaint to prosecutor’s office
The deputy head of Minsk city organization of the BPF Party Vadzim Kanapatski, unlawfully detained on the eve of 7 May action, has filed a complaint to Tsentralny district prosecutor’s office against the unlawful actions of the police officers.
09.05.2009 Police beat up participants of 7 May action
Participants of the rally on 7 May were beaten even for a denial to be fingerprinted, though formally this procedure is voluntary.
09.05.2009 Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich calls activists to stop hunger-strike of solidarity with him
As said by the lawyer of the political prisoner Pavel Sapelka, Mikalai Autukhovich calls on the people who are keeping the hunger-strike of solidarity with him to stop it. He thanks everybody for the support, but says that their health and youth are necessary to continue the struggle for democracy.
08.05.2009 Student of Warsaw University is not let in Belarus
At the end of April the Belarusian boarder guards annulled the multi Belarusian visa to the student of the department of Belarusian studies of Warsaw University Marta Szymanska and put in her passport the seal ‘Entrance prohibited’.
08.05.2009 Mahiliou: arrests for white-red-white flags at ‘Lyapis Trubetskoy’ concert
On 7 May people were detained in Mahilou at a concert played by Lyapis Trubetskoy, while the musicians were singing the song Belarus Freedom.
08.05.2009 26 people on hunger strike in solidarity with political prisoners
The number of participants of a hunger strike in solidarity with political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich is increasing every day.
07.05.2009 Action in the memory of Yury Zakharanka ends with mass detentions
On 7 May at 6 p.m. several hundred people came to an action of commemoration of the ex-minister of interior Yury Zakharanka who has been missing for ten years already. The people were holding the photos of Zakharanka and the photos of the political prisoners Mikalai Autukhovich, Uladzimir Asipenka and Yury Liavonau.
07.05.2009 Homel: police warn ‘For Freedom’ coordinator Uladzimir Katsora
On 6 May the police reminded Uladzimir Katsora about administrative responsibility for violation of the law On mass actions that could take place during commemoration of Yury Zakharanka on the tenth anniversary of disappearance.
07.05.2009 Vitsebsk: police detain oppositionist Barys Khamaida for ‘Pahonia’ coat of arms
According to the information of the journalist Uladzimir Padhol, Barys Khamaida has been coming to the ‘blue house’ in Vitsebsk holding the painting Pahonia, presented to him by a same-name group of Belarusian artists, for about two weeks.
07.05.2009 7 May: ten years since the kidnapping of Yury Zakharanka
General Yury Zakharanka disappeared on 7 May 1999. Witnesses of the kidnapping, found not by investigative agencies but by a public commission on search for the missing general, say Zakharanka was forcefully taken away by some men.
07.05.2009 6th day of action of solidarity: Mikalai Autukhovich hungers for 20 days already
On 6 May the action of solidarity with political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich, who has gone on indefinite hunger strike, was held in Kastrychnitskaya Square of Minsk in presence of riot policemen and law enforcement officers in mufti.
06.05.2009 Salihorsk police detain "Young Front" activists for defending the right to education
The Young Front activists who were detained on 5 May in the evening in Salihorsk during a picket in support of forcibly drafted Ivan Shyla, were released in three hours.
06.05.2009 Mahiliou oblast court does turns down cassation complaint of 'Volny Horad'
On 6 May Mahiliou oblast court finished the consideration of the cassation complaint of Siarhei Niarouny, editor of the non-state Krychau newspaper Volny Horad and the founder of the newspaper Uladzimir Kudrautsau against the ruling of Chavusy district court of 17 February.
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