News for June 2011
22.06.2011 One more person charged in mass disorder case over post-election protest
One more person, Svyataslaw Baranovich, has been charged in a mass disorder case opened following a post-election protest that was staged in central Minsk on December 19, 2010.
22.06.2011 Prisoners' godparenthoood: Hans-Gert Pöttering adopts Ales Kirkevich
Hans-Gert Pöttering, former president of the European Parliament and chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Ales Kirkevich.
22.06.2011 Blogger from Lida fined 700,000 rubles
The judgement as delivered by the Lida district court to a user of Vkontakte social network Yauheny Kutsko for insulting former chairman of the Lida district executive committee Andrei Khudyka, now deputy chairman of the Hrodna region executive committee.
22.06.2011 Amnesty International: Unprecedented deterioration in the human rights situation in Belarus
Amnesty International says in its report that clampdown on dissenting voices continues unabated in Belarus six months after the country’s presidential elections.
21.06.2011 Vaukavysk KGB to question silent protesters
9 students of Vaukavysk pedagogic college, detained during the 15 June silent rally, have summoned for interrogation to local KGB department.
21.06.2011 Trial of Navapolatsk activist put off over boozy prosecution witness
The administrative trial of Navapolatsk activist Yauhen Kanstantsinau facing charges for alleged disorderly conduct has been postponed after a witness for the prosecution, who had been allegedly insulted by the activist, appeared in the courtroom in state of intoxication.
21.06.2011 Poczobut’s property being attached
Officers of court visited the house of Andrzej Poczobut, a Hrodna journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza.
21.06.2011 Hearing of Iryna Khalip’s cassation appeal postponed
Hearing of a cassation appeal by Iryna Khalip, the wife of presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, has been postponed for a month.
21.06.2011 Female activist of “European Belarus” expelled for “politics”
Irina Petrova, an activist of civil campaign “European Belarus” and a junior student, has been expelled from Belarusian State Pedagogical University.
20.06.2011 Prisoner’s Godparenthood: Marina Schuster adopts Pavel Vinahradau
Marina Schuster, spokeswoman on human rights and humanitarian aid for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary group in the Bundestag, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Pavel Vinahradau.
20.06.2011 UN Human Rights Council condemns election-related violence in Belarus
The United Nations Human Rights Council voted Friday to condemn human rights violations before, during and after the December 2010 presidential election in Belarus, and urged the government to end what called the persecution of opposition leaders, reported BelaPAN.
20.06.2011 Brest participant of “silent action” summoned to KGB
Yury Boubel has been invited “to discuss some issues” by phone.
20.06.2011 BCD activists detained in Navapolatsk on June 19
Aleh Kraiko,Illya Bahdanau and Andrei Dubrouski have been warned about the inadmissibility of organization and appeals for participation in unauthorized actions
17.06.2011 Isolation from Internet
Democratic activist Ivan Stasyuk from Brest has been sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest.
17.06.2011 Minsk court dismisses appeals by Young Front leaders Dashkevich and Lobau
Today, Minsk City Court dismissed the appeals lodged by Young Front leaders Zmitser Dashkevich and Eduard Lobau against earlier verdicts, which sentenced them to 2 and 4 years of imprisonment, respectively.
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