News for 12 May 2008
12.05.2008 MIA offers apologies to Nasta Palazhanka
11 May the deputy chairperson of the Young Front Nasta Palazhanka received an answer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to her address requiring explanations for application of foreign travel restrictions towards her.
12.05.2008 Cherykau: police threaten journalist-veteran with arrest on Victory Day
In the town of Cherykau Mikalai Tsarkou, editor of the Cherykauskiya Naviny newspaper, and Siarhei Panizoutsau, its photo correspondent, were prohibited to take photos of participants of the official demonstration in the honor of the Victory Day. The acting chairman of Cherykau police, major Raikou explained that by their actions the journalists allegedly hindered the action. The policemen tried to detain them and take to a police department.
12.05.2008 KGB continues pressurizing youth activists
Recently a member of the youth wing of the BPF Party Ruslan Shoshyn was to have come to Sweden for a short-term educational seminar. However, he got ill and had to stay in Belarus.
12.05.2008 Anzhalika Borys tried for organizing a concert
A chair of the Union of Poles in Belarus Anzhalika Borys faces an administrative penalty for organizing a concert of the Polish band Lombard in Brest.
12.05.2008 Young Front supports boycott of the upcoming election
The underground youth organization Young Front is against participation in the so-called parliamentary election appointed on autumn by the Belarusian authorities.
12.05.2008 Political prisoner Siarhei Parsiukevich needs urgent operation
According to his lawyer, Vera Stramkouskaya, Parsiukevich has asthma aggravation, and doctors recommend him an urgent operation. There are no conditions for it in the Zhlobin detention center, RFE/RL reports.
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