News for July 2010
05.07.2010 Minsk: detention of activists of ‘Speak Truth’ campaign
On 3 July, activists of the civil campaign Speak Truth laid down flowers to the Chaliuskintsy monument and the Military cemetery where victims of the Soviet regime and World War II were buried as well as the Belarusian poets Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala.
05.07.2010 Goalkeeper of Norwegian football club kept in Minsk jail on suspicion in passport forgery
The citizen of Cameroon was detained by the migration service of Minsk-2 airport before the match, allegedly for having a forged passport. The Human Rights Center Viasna received a letter from the detainee’s girlfriend, Spaniard Inmaculada Gonzalez, who asked the human rights activists to clear up the fate of the Cameroonian.
05.07.2010 ’Investigation’ of Zakharanka’s abduction extended once again
Human rights activists are of the opinion that there’s no real investigation of the cases of the abducted political and civil activists.
05.07.2010 Criminal cases against vialejka.org
The website vialejka.org has stopped working after a criminal case on libel and insulting was instigated against its administrators.
02.07.2010 Astravets: another trial of Ivan Kruk
A new administrative case against Ivan Kruk, a local civil activist, is being considered in the town of Astravets.
02.07.2010 BCD activist detained at pilgrimage in Budslau
On 1 July, an activist of the Party of Belarusian Christian Democracy, Kastus Shytal, was detained in the village of the Budslau in the Miadzel district of the Minsk region during the traditional festivities in honor of the icon of Our Lay of Budslau.
02.07.2010 Mikalai Autukhovich had to go on hunger strike to receive prosthodontic treatment
As RFE/RL learnt from Autukhovich’s lawyer, Pavel Sapelka, the political prisoner was visited by dentists in a detention facility in Minsk.
01.07.2010 Journalist Yury Varonezhtsau applies to court to return confiscated belongings and money
On 29 June, a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, Yury Varonezhtsau, applied to the Tsentralny District Court of Homel with a complaint against the actions of the police department of the Homel Region Executive Committee, who had conducted a search at his home on 18 May and had confiscated some things that belonged to him and his family.
01.07.2010 Detained ‘Young Front’ activist complains about police boundlessness
At 12.45 a.m. Uladzimir Yaromenka, a Young Front activist, was detained by the police near the Kamarouski market in Minsk for posting stickers.
01.07.2010 Procuracy wants to know how charter97.org functions
The first day when the decree on internet censorship came into force was marked by questioning of a well-known journalist Natallia Radzina.
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