News for December 2012
05.12.2012 Pavel Sapelka: Mikalai Dziadok is being put in unbearable conditions
The famous Belarusian lawyer does not believe the political prisoner is a persistent violator of prison rules.
04.12.2012 Kanstantsin Zhukouski asks Homel procuracy to check the legality of the dismantling of old houses
The civil activist Kanstantsin Zhukouski applied to the Tsentralny District Prosecutor's Office of Homel with the request to check the legality of the dismantlement of the wooden houses in Valatouskaya Street.
04.12.2012 Books not accepted for political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou
The civil activist Ryhor Hryk collected about 40 books by Belarusian and foreign writers. On 3 December he tried to pass them to the pre-trial prison #6 in Baranavichy, where the political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou is kept.
04.12.2012 Restraint for Andrei Haidukou left unchanged
The youth activist Andrei Haidukou, one of the founders of the “Union of Young Intellectuals”, has been kept in the pre-trial prison of the KGB in Minsk for more than three weeks. In the beginning of December he was transferred to the Vitsebsk pre-trial prison #2.
04.12.2012 Police officers want to present charges to Ivan Bedka for... disseminating an answer of the Slonim authorities
On 3 December four policemen paid a visit to the Slonim-based civil activist Ivan Bedka. They wanted to charge him with posting leaflets. In fact, the activist posted the answer he had received from the Slonim District Executive Committee (DEC) to dwellers of the 1-ai Siamihodki Street.
04.12.2012 Hrodna Region Court leaves fines to participants of the Kalinouskis' commemoration
The Hrodna Region Court predictably turned down the appeal of the representative of the United Civil Party Vital Lopasau against the fine, issued to him by the Svislach District Court for the participation in a commemorative action in honor of the 1863-1864 insurgents, held on 27 October.
04.12.2012 Ukrainian activists of “Amnesty International” held an action against the use of the death penalty in Belarus
On 3 December “AI” activists held a street action in Lviv to condemn the ongoing use of the death penalty in Belarus and support Liubou Kavaliova, whose son was executed in March 2012 in Minsk.
04.12.2012 Boris Grebenshchikov supports Ales Bialiatski
“Amnesty International” has launched the Write for Rights 2012 marathon.
04.12.2012 Political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok sent to a cell-type prison facility
The court decided to toughen the imprisonment conditions for the political prisoner.
03.12.2012 Journalist Siarhei Serabro detained near the “Vitsebskdreu” enterprise
The editor of the “Narodnyia Naviny Vitsebska” (People's news of Vitsebsk) web-site Siarhei Serabro was taking pictures of the yards and street in the city’s outskirts before the visit of Lukashenka.
03.12.2012 Financial Investigations Department refuses to unblock “ARCHE” accounts
The Belarusian Association of Journalists’ motion for unfreezing the accounts of the “ARCHE” magazine was not satisfied.
03.12.2012 Mahiliou: Yury Novikau continues appealing against the confiscation of informational materials for observers
The Mahiliou coordinator of the “For Fair Elections” campaign is dissatisfied wit the verdict of the judge Ratnikava of the Mahiliou Leninski District Court of 11 September 2012 and the verdict of the judge Kachalava of 18 November 2012.
03.12.2012 Ivan Kruk files another appeal against the police actions
On 21 September the environmental activists Ivan Kruk and Mikalai Ulasevich were detained by the police. The detainees' apartments were searched, Kruk and Ulasevich were questioned concerning the alleged distribution of illegal electoral agitation matter.
03.12.2012 Harassment of members of independent trade union continues at “Granit”
This time the it concerns the excavator operator Leanid Dubanosau, a member of the Independent Trade Union. The administration of the Mikashevichy-based state enterprise demands that he refused from paying the membership fees for the independent trade union through the accounting department.
03.12.2012 They burn Dashkevich's letters to warm up
The Vitsebsk coordinator of the organizational committee of the BChD party Tatsiana Seviarynets received a letter from Dzmitry Dashkevich from the Hrodna prison No 1. In the letter it is explained why the previous letter did not make it to Tatsiana, RFE/RL reports.
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