23.07.2009 Political prisoner Artsyom Dubski stopped hunger strike

The participant of the Process of 14 stopped his hunger strike as the administration of the pre-trial detention center in Babruisk treats him “better”.

On July 17, officers of the detention center demanded Dubski to apply for transferring him in a penal colony to serve his punishment. After that the “Young Front” activist was denied medical aid, taken away his belongings, and conditions of detention for him were worsened. Artsyom Dubski went on hunger strike in protest on July 20, Radio Svaboda reports.

23.07.2009 Belarusian oppositionist and his 11-month-old baby taken to militia department

Militia searched the flat of Kanstantsin Chuvak in Pinsk and confiscated his correspondence with officials and courts, political literature, CDs.

At 7 a.m. July 22, militia officers rang at the door to activist of the “For Freedom” movement, but he choose not to open the door and turn off his phone, as his baby was sleeping,” the website milinkevich.org reports.

Then the law enforcement officer used a hoist to get to the fifth floor. The militiamen showed Kanstantsin Chuvak a search warrant signed by the prosecutor and began to search the flat.

23.07.2009 Lyabedzka asks new Interior Minister to answer for his officers

The leader of the United Civil Party has sent a letter to the Interior Minister Anatol Kulyashou.

In the address the politician offered the minister to give an explanation for actions of law-enforcing agencies of Zhodzina chief directorate of Interior Affairs.

On Friday police tried to prevent handing out of independent newspaper “Novy chas” near the entrance of BELAZ plant. 6 activists of the United Civil party and “Young Democrats” activists were detained. 500 copies of “Novy chas” were seized.

23.07.2009 Authorities responded to PACE – another death sentence delivered

The Court of the Minsk region sentenced killers of two officers of Bolshevik-Agro company in the Minsk region to death and life imprisonment.

“Two dwellers of Salihorsk, found guilty of murder of two officers of the company, were sentenced to death and life imprisonment,” Interfax learnt from the prosecutor’s office of the Minsk region.

According to a source of the agency, another accused in this case got 13 years in prison, he was found guilty of aiding killing.

The prosecutor’s office noted the court found “two people guilty of killing 2 persons committed by a group of people for selfish motives.”

23.07.2009 Case over portraits of missing people: Courts on regions ignore decision of Supreme Court

On Jule 22, the Homel region court dismissed a cassation appeal of the oppositionists convicted for the picket of memory of kidnapped Yury Zakharanka.

We remind that on June 25, judge of the Tsentralny district court Maryna Domnenka fined the participants of the picket in memory of former interior minister Yury Zakharanka, Radio Svaboda reports. Leader of the Homel opposition Uladzimir Katsora was arrested for three days. The politicians declared himself on dry hunger strike just in the courtroom protesting against the court decision. The oppositionists filed a cassation appeal to the Homel region court.

23.07.2009 Ecologists from Ukraine file complaint against Belarus over planned nuclear power plant

The Ukrainian envirinmental non-governmental organization Ecoclub has filed a complaint against Belarus over the alleged violation of the Convenant on Assessment of Environmental Impact in the Trans-border context (ESPO) over the planned construction of a nuclear power plant.

The Belapan news agency reports the complaint was sent to the Geneva-based ESPO Secretariat.