17.11.2011 Polish national Kinga Ksiazek deported

Kinga Ksiazek, a consultant of Fundacja Institutum Orientalium NGO, has been deported from Brest.

17.11.2011 Participants of prayer for political prisoners detained on October Square

5 activists who planned to hold a prayer service for political prisoners have been detained on October Square in Minsk.

Among them are Hanna Shaputska, Nina Bahinskaya, Tatsyana Kim, Alyaksandr Makaeu, Radio Svaboda informs.

17.11.2011 Andrei Sannikau is in Mahilyou prison #4

His lawyer Maria Kavaleuskaya has found him there. However, she has not been allowed to meet the ex-candidate.

16.11.2011 BELARUSIAN PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE MISSING

The whereabouts of Belarusian prisoner of conscience Andrei Sannikau are currently unknown. Amnesty International fears he may be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.

16.11.2011 Bialiatski trial to be resumed on 22 November

Judge Siarhei Bandarenka has reopened the trial of Ales Bialiatski at Minsk Maskouski District Court.

16.11.2011 Maladechna activist faces expulsion

Maladechna activist of the Young Front movement Pavel Siarhei is facing expulsion from local polytechnics college, after he served administrative arrest for egging the Lenin monument in Minsk on 7 November.

16.11.2011 People’s Assembly Babruisk activist appeals arrest

Babruisk activist Mrs. Halina Smirnova is going to appeal her arrest for involvement in the People’s Assembly on 8 October, says Mahiliou human rights defender Barys Bukhel.

16.11.2011 Baranavichy prosecutor upholds marathon ban

On 15 November, Baranavichy businessman Mikalai Charnavus received a reply from the district prosecutor’s office concerning an earlier ban on a marathon applied for by the entrepreneur.

16.11.2011 Dismissal for People’s Assembly

Anzhela Kambalova had to dismiss from a private firm by agreement of the parties on November 15.

16.11.2011 Sannikau secretly transferred to another colony

Former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau has been secretly transferred to a different penal colony, the Nasha Niva newspaper reports, quoting the prisoner’s lawyer Andrei Varvashevich.

16.11.2011 Mazyr court restricts freedom of peaceful assembly

On 19 October, Mazyr human rights defender Uladzimir Tseliapun lodged a complaint with local court against a ban on a picket in support of Belarusian prisoners of conscience scheduled for 8 October.

15.11.2011 “The honorable guest is unable to attend the Politiken Freedom Prize awarding ceremony”

This was repeated again and again during the ceremony in Copenhagen on 14 November, at which the Danish edition Politiken awarded its Freedom Prize to Ales Bialiatski and the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, headed by him. A poster with a graphic portrait of Ales Bialiatski hung on the wall to symbolize the symbolic presence of the prize-holder.

15.11.2011 Trial on Filip Kirdun’s case to continue at 9 a.m. on 16 November

The trial of Filip Kirdun, charged with the use of obscene language towards police officers, continued today at the Frunzenski District Court of Minsk. Judge Liudmila Lapo agreed to question policemen Aliaksandr Birchanka and Siarhei Dounar, who had taken fingerprints from the defendant. They stated that he had called them “Lukashenka’s lackeys”, and police officer Sviatlana Kunitskaya, who is in charge of the procedure of dactylography in the Frunzenski District Police Department of Minsk, stated that Filip’s parents had paid a visit to the police department on 14 November and threatened to her.

15.11.2011 Babruisk: police warn Alena Toustsik

Alena Toustsik, one of the detained at the commemorative action held on 2 November, has been invited to a meeting with the police during two last days. The woman refused to meet, as her 2.5-year-old child was ill with bronchitis.

15.11.2011 Minsk: imprisonment for People’s Assembly

Aliaksandr Piatnitski was detained after the end of the People’s Assembly held in Minsk on 12 November. He was charged with insubordination to lawful demands of police officers (Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Violations) and sentenced to 10 days of arrest.