News for June 2011
03.06.2011 Editorial board of independent socio-political website gets evicted from office
The editorial board of the socio-political website ex-press.by, created by journalists of the private socio-political newspaper Kur'yer z Barysava (closed down before the 2006 presidential election), is evicted from the rented office.
03.06.2011 Human rights defender asks Ministry of Justice to punish Belarusian National Youth Union (BRSM)
A Vitsebsk human rights defender, representative of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee Pavel Levinau addressed the Justice Minister asking to punish the pro-governmental “state NGO” Belarusian National Youth Union for improper use of its name.
03.06.2011 Human rights defender sues Life:) for blocking opposition websites
Aleh Matskevich wants to find out why the closed joint stock company BeST, a provider of mobile communications in Belarus, blocks the access to the websites charter97.org, belaruspartisan.org and prokopovi.ch at its 3G life service.
03.06.2011 Brief review of the process of Belarusian anarchists
The preliminary investigation into the criminal case was accompanied with serious process violations of the convicts' rights, including: arbitrary detention, violations of the terms and procedures of detention established by the Criminal-Process Code of the Republic of Belarus (CPC), violation of the right to defense, and violation of the presumption of innocence. The detention of I.Alinevich in Moscow and his transportation to the KGB pre-trial prison in Minsk were accompanied with violations of legal procedures including the procedure of extradition of Belarusian citizens to Belarus from the Russian Federation.
02.06.2011 Hrodna: the Lemianouskis still haven't been returned the confiscated computer equipment
On 14 February 2011 the police detained two youth activists, Nadzeya Krapivina, and Veranika Lemianouskaya, on suspicion in making political graffiti. Veranika's father, Mikola Lemianouski, is a member of the Belarusian Popular Front Party.
02.06.2011 Political prisoner Dzmitry Novik is pressurized in Shklou penal colony
Dzmitry Novik was sentenced to 42 months in a high-security penal colony for participation in the protest rally against the rigging of the presidential elections on 19 December in Minsk. In his recent telephone conversation with his mother the prisoner said that he was being provoked in prison. He said that soon there could be declared an amnesty, that's why the possible reason for the provocations could be that the prison administration wants to leave him in jail, or even give him another sentence.
02.06.2011 Human rights defender looking for a ruling of Barysau authorities
The human rights defender Aleh Matskevich (in the photo) has spent more than a year looking for a decision of the Barysau District Executive Committee About the order of holding mass events in the Barysau district.
02.06.2011 Interrogations concerning "19 December riot case" continue
Another participant of the 19 December post-election rally has been interrogated recently.
02.06.2011 European MP addresses head of a Minsk prison
Marek Migalski, the member of the European Parliament who had become a godparent for a political prisoner Zmitser Bandarenka, has addressed the chief of the remand prison in Valadarski Street in Minsk.
02.06.2011 Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich not allowed to meet his father
84-year-old Viktar Statkevich came from Baranavichy to Minsk purposely to visit the KGB prison to see his son, sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment.
01.06.2011 Who is who: accused in mass riot criminal case (updated on 9 January 2012)
Concise biographies of the accused in the criminal case under Par. 1 and 2 Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (mass riot).
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