News for August 2012
08.08.2012 Court doesn't know when to try Marholin
At about 5 p.m. on 7 August a police car stopped near the house of the deputy head of the United Civil Party Leu Marholin. The police presented him with summons to court for 10 a.m. on 8 August.
08.08.2012 Lukashenka closes Embassy in Stockholm
Belarus withdraws its embassy in Sweden and all its employees. As the reason for withdrawal of diplomatic mission the Foreign Ministry was called the expulsion of two Belarusian diplomats from Sweden. Recall, this happened after the decision of the Belarusian side about the non-renewal of accreditation of the ambassador of Sweden to Belarus Stefan Eriksson.
07.08.2012 KGB confirms arraignment of Siarhei Basharymau and Anton Surapin
KGB informs: The State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus has initiated and investigates a criminal case on features of a crime under part 3 of Article 371 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus concerning the fact of unlawful crossing of the state boundary of the Republic of Belarus by citizens of the Kingdom of Sweden at a light airplane.
07.08.2012 Precinct election commissions formed secretly in Leninski district of Mahiliou
Last week human rights defender Barys Bukhel passed documents for the inclusion of human rights defender Aliaksei Kolchyn to a precinct election commission. He asked officers of the organizational and personnel department of the Leninski District Executive Committee to inform him about the date, time and place of the sitting on formation of precinct election commissions.
07.08.2012 Ales Bialiatski appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Užupis to “Viasna”
“We have much hope that this small symbolic step will be important for Ales and all Belarusian human rights activists" - said Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Užupis Thomas Chapaytsis.
07.08.2012 Valiantsin Stefanovich: Belarusians can apply to Strasbourg court
A politically motivated ban to leave Russia for Belarusians will violate the Convention on Human Rights.
07.08.2012 General procuracy to human rights defenders: no grounds to consider Your appeal
The General Procuracy answered the address of the heads of a number of human rights organizations concerning the problem of preventive detentions and administrative punishment of civil activists and representatives of youth opposition group by sending a letter to the E-mail address of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”.
07.08.2012 Barysau: tax inspection demands that prospective candidate presented tax and income declaration
The head of the Barysau city organization of the United Civil Party Mikhail Vasiliieu received a letter from the tax inspection with the demand to present income and asset declaration for the last four years.
07.08.2012 State-owned newspapers agitate for present MP
The regional newspaper “Minskaya Prauda” and the national “Narodnaya Hazeta” have published interviews with a present MP, Viktar Huminski who intends to run for the Parliament at Barysau village constituency #63.
07.08.2012 Petition for release of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners passed to Ambassador of Belarus to Lithuania (video)
On 6 August Lithuanian and Belarusian civil activists gathered near the Belarusian Embassy in Vilnius to express solidarity with the well-known human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, detained a year ago and sentenced to 4.5 years of prison for work for the human rights in Belarus.
07.08.2012 Pinsk observer appeals against early agitation
Viktar Yarashuk, registered as an observer at Pinsk village election constituency #15, filed an appeal to the commission against early agitation for prospective candidate Aliaksandr Paleichuk.
07.08.2012 Brest: another appeal against actions of head of central department store
This time information about violation of the electoral legislation by the head of the department store Viktar Valiushytski was passed to the election commissions of Brest-Western election constituency #1 by one of his possible rivals, the head of the local branch of the Belarusian Social-Democratic Party (Hramada) Hanna Kanius.
07.08.2012 Confiscation of property of human rights defender Mr Ales Bialiatski set to go ahead
On 4 July 2012, the Court of Pervomayski District of Minsk confirmed the list of property to be confiscated as part of the sentence handed down to Mr Ales Bialiatski in 2011 for alleged 'tax evasion on a large scale'.
06.08.2012 Pro-governmental parties nominate few candidates, but hundreds of representatives to precinct commissions
The Central Election Commission voiced the results of the nomination of representatives to precinct election commissions.
06.08.2012 International Solidarity Day with Civil Society and Human Rights Movement of Belarus (photo report)
Actions in support of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners in Belarus were held on 4 August in different countries of the world: France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, Switzerland, Norway… We propose to your attention a photo report from these actions.
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