News for January 2011
12.01.2011 Committee to Protect Journalists urges Belarusian authorities to stop pressurizing mass media
The Committee to Protect of Journalists has urged the Belarusian authorities to stop pressure on the Belarusian independent mass media on 11 January, informed the Committee's scientific employee Muzafar Suleimanov to BelaPAN.
12.01.2011 Human rights defender Anatol Paplauny summonsed to KGB for interrogation
On 12 December morning a human rights activist from Homel Anatol Paplauny has been summoned to the KGB administration for an interrogation.
12.01.2011 Belarusian Helsinki Committee informs UN about harassment of lawyers
The human rights organization Belarusian Helsinki Committee has directed a message concerning the pressure rendered by the Belarusian authorities against the lawyers who defend the accused and the suspects in the organization and participation in the mass disturbances on 19 December, as well as on other facts of harassment and intimidation of lawyers, to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Gabriela Knaul. The BHC Chairman Aleh Hulak has informed BelaPAN about this.
12.01.2011 Avtoradio closed down for broadcasting ads for presidential candidates
A Minsk-based radio station that broadcast campaign advertisements for opposition presidential candidates has been taken off the air due to the cancellation of its license, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
12.01.2011 Another search in the apartment of Iryna Khalip and Andrei Sannikau
The apartment of the journalist Iryna Khalip and her husband, the ex-presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau was searched on 12 January.
12.01.2011 Belarus urged to free prisoners of conscience held after post-election protest
Amnesty International today called for the unconditional release of 16 Belarusian activists and journalists charged with ‘organizing mass disorder’ following a post-election demonstration in December, and declared them prisoners of conscience.
11.01.2011 Amnesty International urges Belarus to free prisoners of conscience held after post-election protest
Amnesty International today called for the unconditional release of 16 Belarusian activists and journalists charged with ‘organizing mass disorder’ following a post-election demonstration in December, and declared them prisoners of conscience.
11.01.2011 Two more accused in ‘mass riot’ case
Dzmitry Miadzvedz participated in the protest rally on 19 December in Minsk together with his son, Leanid. At first they weren’t in the center of events, but when the clearing of the square by the special task forces started, the crowd threw them on the police baffles, as a result of which they got in the sight of the police and the cameramen of security services.
11.01.2011 Suspect in 'mass riot' case Vasil Parfiankou is kept in pre-trial prison in Valadarski Street
Vasil Parfiankou is another suspect in the criminal case concerning the 'mass riot' on 19 December 2010 in Minsk.
11.01.2011 KGB continues interrogations
On 11 January morning Yauhen Vaskovich, a journalist for Bobruyskiy Kuryer, was invited for a 'talk' to the Mahiliou KGB.
11.01.2011 Participants of 19 December protest rally are expelled from educational establishments
Students, who served 10 or 15 days of arrest after the events on 19 December started to be expelled from college and universities as the Christmas holidays ended.
11.01.2011 Supreme Court turned down Ryhor Kastusiou's appeal against results of presidential election
On 3 January the former presidential candidate representing the BPF party filed an appeal to the Supreme Court enlisting violations during the electoral campaign and asking to re-consider the election results, announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC).
10.01.2011 Brest: Ihar Sliadzeuski’s apartment was searched and he was guarded to KGB from work
Ihar Sliadzeuski is the father of Katsiaryna Sliadzeuskaya, a civil activist who was sentenced to 10 days of arrest for participation in the protest rally in Minsk on 19 December. He is also the owner of the apartment that is rented by a civil activist Yury Bakur that was searched in connection with the criminal case upon Article 293 ‘mass riot’.
10.01.2011 UN admits use of torture against under-age person by Belarusian police
The UN Human Rights Committee recorded infringement of civil rights of minor convicted dweller of Homel in the course of proceedings.
10.01.2011 Maladechna: search at the Lazaraus’ apartment
The Maladechna apartment where the residence of two persons who had been sentenced to administrative arrest for participation in the 19 December protest rally Anastasiya Lazarava and Piatro Lazarau, was searched. However, they don’t live there and there are no computers and information carriers. That’s why the investigators just examined the books and offered to surrender arms.
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