News for 17 Apr 2012
17.04.2012 Sannikau’s conviction to be preserved for 8 years
However, he is not forbidden to go abroad. The politician and ex-political prisoner has informed about it at a press conference in Minsk today.
17.04.2012 U.S. Credits Minsk For Releasing Political Prisoners
The U.S. government has called Belarus’s decision to release a former presidential candidate and his campaign manager from prison “a significant step,” but also called on Minsk to immediately release all remaining political prisoners it is holding.
17.04.2012 Mikalai Autukhovich has serious health problems
Back pain is caused by kidney problems, and also by a cold the political prisoner had caught while he was in the punitive isolation ward.
17.04.2012 UN Human Rights Committee registers complaint by Homel activist
The UN Human Rights Committee has registered a complaint submitted by Homel civil activist Mrs. Zinaida Shumilina, contesting a number of bans on holding pickets in support of former presidential candidates and their families.
17.04.2012 Salihorsk prosecuting authorities ignore illegal restrictions on freedom of peaceful assembly
Salihorsk Prosecutor’s Office has ruled not to consider a complaint lodged by local civil activist Uladzimir Shyla, following several months of his fruitless struggle for holding a mass event in the town.
17.04.2012 Hrodna opposition activists sue local executive officials over Freedom Day meeting ban
Hrodna civil activists Yury Istomin, Uladzimir Khilmanovich and Vadzim Saranchukou have lodged a lawsuit with Leninski District Court against a ban on holding a meeting marking the Freedom Day issued by the city’s executive committee on 19 March.
17.04.2012 Vitsebsk pro-dem activists appeal Freedom Day meeting ban
A number of Vitsebsk opposition activists have lodged a complaint with Vitsebsk Regional Court’s board for administrative cases, appealing a decision by Vitsebsk Kastrychnitski District Court to uphold a ban on holding a demonstration and a meeting marking the Freedom Day on 25 March.
17.04.2012 Amnesty International urges Belarus to free remaining prisoners of conscience after two released
A decision to release two Belarusian prisoners of conscience including an opposition presidential candidate is a step in the right direction but the government now needs to free five others who have been in jail since 2011, Amnesty International said.
17.04.2012 Vitsebsk opposition activist detained for “precaution talk”
Vitsebsk pro-democratic activist Barys Khamaida was detained by the city’s police last evening, to be later taken for a conversation with chief of Vitsebsk Chyhunachny District Police Department Kanstantsin Adnapalau.
17.04.2012 Andrei Sannikau summoned to police department
Former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau has been summoned to Minsk Pershamaiski District Police Department just three days after his release on 14 April, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
17.04.2012 Statkevich shares cell with killer from “death squad”
The monitoring group of Platform association managed to get information about confinement conditions for Mikalai Statkevich in a prison in Mahilou.
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