News for July 2011
11.07.2011 Case concerning protests at Bruzgi is getting even more absurd
36 people who have been already punished for blocking the road at the border crossing point Bruzgi in order to protest against the fuel export restrictions are called to court again. The trial will take place on 20 July.
11.07.2011 Navapolatsk: trade union activist dismissed from Naftan plant
On 15 July a search was conducted at the apartment of Yauhen Kanstantsinau. The official reason was that the police had been allegedly informed that he was selling moonshine. They confiscated some leaflets from him. On 18 July two provocateurs (Makaranka and Silitski) attacked the activist, after which he was detained by the police. He was charged under Article 17.1, “disorderly conduct”.
11.07.2011 Nasha Niva got another warning
Though it seems absurd, the private socio-political weekly Nasha Niva received another official warning just before the beginning of the trial on its dissolution.
11.07.2011 Quiet discrimination
“There are no colleges or lyceums in Belarus that provide sufficient conditions for the study of disabled people together with all others within the framework of an integrated system,” states human rights defender Alena Tankachova.
11.07.2011 Uladzimir Shulzhytski sentenced to 15 days of arrest
Uladzimir Shulzhytski, a youth activist from Smarhon, was detained at the silent protest action on 6 July in Maladechna. The following day he was released from jail because of the absence of witnesses of his “misdemeanor”.
11.07.2011 Police with machine guns took journalist and human rights defender Valery Shchukin to a desolate place
Policemen with machine guns transported the well-known human rights activist to a deserted district of Minsk.
08.07.2011 Minsk City Court leaves verdicts to anarchists unchanged
On 8 July the Minsk City Court considered cassation appeals against verdicts to the activists of the anarchist movement Ihar Alinevich, Miklaia Dziadok and Aliaksandr Frantskevich who had been sentenced to different times of imprisonment for a number of political actions including arsons. Two more convicts, Silivonchyk and Vetkin, didn’t file cassation appeals. Bear in mind that in May 2011 they had pleaded guilty and had given testimonies against Alinevich, Dziadok and Frantskevich who plead innocent.
08.07.2011 Human Rights Center Viasna expresses solidarity with regional human rights defenders
The Human Rights Center Viasna states its solidarity with the Belarusian human rights defenders who were detained during the silent protest actions in different parts of Belarus.
08.07.2011 7 July: trials in Belarusian regions
On 7 July participants of the 6 July silent protest actions were tried all over Belarus. Here are some details.
08.07.2011 Minsk: trials of 6 July silent protest participants
The people who were detained during the 6 July silent protest action, were taken to different district courts of Minsk on 7 July.
08.07.2011 Homel region: list of civil activists punished for participation in silent protests
Many people are fined and imprisoned in the Homel region these days.
08.07.2011 Vialeika: trial of a detained protester postponed to 12 July
Eight people and a dog were detained on the central square of the town of Vialeika on 6 July. The detentions were conducted by the riot police to prevent the silent protest action which was to have taken place there.
08.07.2011 Orsha: foreign travel restrictions imposed on Siarhei Huminski
Siarhei Huminski, a civil activist from the town of Orsha, studies at one of the Polish universities. At present he is passing his exams there. The Orsha Town Military Enlistment Office sent him a paper, according to which he is banned to travel abroad. The official reason is that he hadn’t allegedly passed all necessary documents to the military enlistment office. Siarhei Huminski says it’s not true.
08.07.2011 Vitsebsk: Barys Khamaida detained
Mr. Khamaida was detained near the so-called “blue house” – he usually distributes the independent press there. Radio Liberty informs that he has been brought to Railway District Department of the Interior according to a police order.
08.07.2011 One-armed man fined for applauding
Belarusian judges continue to demean themselves in the eyes of the world.
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