News for 12 Jan 2011

12.01.2011 Committee to Protect Journalists urges Belarusian authorities to stop pressurizing mass media

The Committee to Protect of Journalists has urged the Belarusian authorities to stop pressure on the Belarusian independent mass media on 11 January, informed the Committee's scientific employee Muzafar Suleimanov to BelaPAN.

Human rights defender Anatol Paplauny summonsed to KGB for interrogation

12.01.2011 Human rights defender Anatol Paplauny summonsed to KGB for interrogation

On 12 December morning a human rights activist from Homel Anatol Paplauny has been summoned to the KGB administration for an interrogation.

12.01.2011 Belarusian Helsinki Committee informs UN about harassment of lawyers

The human rights organization Belarusian Helsinki Committee has directed a message concerning the pressure rendered by the Belarusian authorities against the lawyers who defend the accused and the suspects in the organization and participation in the mass disturbances on 19 December, as well as on other facts of harassment and intimidation of lawyers, to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Gabriela Knaul. The BHC Chairman Aleh Hulak has informed BelaPAN about this.

12.01.2011 Avtoradio closed down for broadcasting ads for presidential candidates

A Minsk-based radio station that broadcast campaign advertisements for opposition presidential candidates has been taken off the air due to the cancellation of its license, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.

12.01.2011 Another search in the apartment of Iryna Khalip and Andrei Sannikau

The apartment of the journalist Iryna Khalip and her husband, the ex-presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau was searched on 12 January.

Belarus urged to free prisoners of conscience held after post-election protest

12.01.2011 Belarus urged to free prisoners of conscience held after post-election protest

Amnesty International today called for the unconditional release of 16 Belarusian activists and journalists charged with ‘organizing mass disorder’ following a post-election demonstration in December, and declared them prisoners of conscience.

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