News for 4 Mar 2011
04.03.2011 A result of torture? Political prisoner Bulanau has swollen legs and aching joints
Relatives of political prisoners started interpreting the information they receive from the KGB prison in a different way after a shocking confession of ex-presidential candidate Aliaksei Mikhalevich about being tortured in the KGB prison.
04.03.2011 Analysis of the criminal trial of Aliaksandr Atroshchankau, Aliaksandr Malchanau and Dzmitry Novik
Aliaksandr Atroshchankau, Aliaksandr Malchanau and Dzmitry Novikau were charged with committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (rioting). Malchanau was also charged under Art. 370 of the Criminal Code (outrage of state symbols).
04.03.2011 Pavel Sapelka is a counsel no more. Three political prisoners have been deprived of defense.
The order of the Ministry of Justice concerning lawyer Pavel Sapelka was considered at a sitting of the Minsk City Bar on 3 March.
04.03.2011 International pressure on Belarusian authorities increases
Today, on 4 March, Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Chair of the Human Rights Center Viasna Ales Bialiatski is present at the session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
04.03.2011 Taisiya Kabanchuk interrogated at KGB for 7 hours
Taisiya Kabanchuk, a coordinator of the organizing committee to create the Belarusian Christian Democracy party in the Mahiliou region, was questioned in the Babruisk city KGB department for 7 hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on 2 March.
04.03.2011 Global Security Forum opens with discussion about Belarus
The Global Security Forum GLOBSEC 2011 opened in Bratislava with discussing the situation in Belarus.
04.03.2011 IFJ and PACE call on Belarusian authorities to stop silencing media
Mats Johansson, Standing Rapporteur of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Media Freedom, and Arne König, President of the European Federation of Journalists, today made the following statement on the situation of the media in Belarus:
04.03.2011 Dzmitry Bandarenka interrogated at KGB for first time in two months
Since 29 December, the lawyer has been denied meetings with his defendant, Andrei Sannikou’s affiliate Dzmitry Bandarenka.
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