News for August 2011
19.08.2011 Trial of Belsat reporter put of till 22 August
The consideration of the administrative charges brought against Siarhei Karpenka, reporter of the Belast Poland-based independent TV channel, has been postponed till 22 August.
19.08.2011 Vitsebsk authorities ban picket
Vitsebsk authorities have banned a picket applied for by local human rights defender Leanid Svetsik.
19.08.2011 Iryna Khalip: I didn’t recognize Sannikov
On August 18 Iryna Khalip, a journalist, visited her husband, a presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, in the penal colony in Navapolatsk.
19.08.2011 Homel authorities ban pickets of support to Ales Bialiatski, too
Homel city executive committee has banned a number of pickets of support to Ales Bialiatski scheduled for 22 August.
19.08.2011 Norwegian Helsinki Committee: “Ales! We will fight for you!”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna” keeps receiving letters of support to Ales Bialiatski. NGO activists and ordinary people from Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and other countries are sending postcards and personal guarantees for the release of Viasna’s leader.
18.08.2011 Vaukavysk activist detained
Activist Vital Huliak has been detained by Vaukavysk police this afternoon, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
18.08.2011 Polish Sejm discussed Byalyatski’s case
On August 17 at 9 p.m. Minsk time the Polish parliament a joint meeting of International Affairs and Foreign Ties commissions was held.
18.08.2011 Solidranosc founders: Bialiatski is the Polish government’s prisoner of conscience
“We will not allow the country of uprisings and conspiracy, the country of democratic opposition and Solidarnosc through the ignorance of a government body throwing into prison the people who are fighting for freedom”, says an open letter by six co-founders of the Solidarnosc Polish independent trade union, as quoted by the Gazeta Wyborcza major newspaper.
18.08.2011 Detentions in Homel
Some 20 persons gathered in Homel’s Uprising Square on 17 August to stage another “silent protest”, the BelaPAN news agency reports, quoting Young Front activist Andrei Tsianiuta.
18.08.2011 2 Young Democrats arrested
On 16 August, Minsk police detained two activists of the Young Democrats UCPB’s youth wing Zmitser Silchanka and Volha Padzeryna.
17.08.2011 Mazyr authorities ban pickets
Mazyr town executive committee has banned three pickets in support of Belarusian prisoners of conscience scheduled for 22, 23 and 27 August, saying that the only authorized picket venue in the town – Spartak Stadium – will be occupied by a children’s sports event on the dates indicated in the application.
17.08.2011 HR defender to be interrogated in Bialiatski’s case
On 17 August, human rights defender Zmitser Salauyeu received a phone call from an unknown person who presented herself as investigator of the Financial Investigation Department Mrs. Kasynkina and requested that Mr. Salauyeu turned up for questioning.
17.08.2011 Homel inhabitant arrested for speaking Belarusian at bank
Vasil Takarenka visited “Belprambudbank” to buy foreign currency needed for his 12-year-old son’s vacations.
17.08.2011 Minsk court turns down appeal against Bialiatski’s pre-trial detention
On 16 August, Minsk Pershamaiski District Court dismissed a complaint appealing the pre-trial restrictions of personal liberty imposed on Viasna’s leader Ales Bialiatski following his arrest on 4 August.
17.08.2011 Another picket in support of Bialiatski banned
Brest city executive committee banned a picket of support to Viasna’s leader Ales Bialiatski scheduled for 22 August, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, quoting local human rights defender Uladzimir Vialichkin.
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