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Before Lukashenka’s arrival Salihorsk policemen beaten member of initiative group Volha Kazulina
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International day of disappeared people: Where’re Zakharanka, Hanchar, Krasouski, and Zavadski?
August 30 is International Day of the Disappeared. Politicians Yury Zakharanka, Viktar Hanchar, businessman Anatol Krasouski, and journalist Zmitser Zavadzki disappeared in Belarus under puzzling circumstances. The International Day of the Disappeared is marked on the initiative of the... Read more -
Political prisoner Syarhei Parsyukevich released
“Today I have been summoned to the head of the colony. He told me to be ready for release. I was given 15 minutes to pack my things, I didn’t even had enough time for that. I was told I am released by Lukashenka’s decree,” Syarhei Parsyukevich told in an interview to the... Read more -
Political prisoner Andrei Kim released
Political prisoner Andrei Kim has been released from Babrujsk colony today. Like Alyaksandr Kazulin and Syarhei Parsyukevich, Kim was released by A. Lukashenka’s decree. The Tsentralny district court of Minsk (judge Alena Illina) sentenced the youth leader Andrei Kim to 1.5 years of... Read more -
Political prisoner Kazulin released
On August 16, on the Day of Belarusian Solidarirty, the former candidate for presidency in Belarus, a political prisoner Alyakasndr Kazulin, was relsed. Alyaksandr Kazulin’s press-conference is to take place on Wednesday. The Charter’97 press-centre has been informed about that by the... Read more -
Businessman fined for speaking Belarusian
A businessman from Zhdanovichy market Ales Taustyka has been fined 140,000 rubles for… speaking Belarusian. “I was said, a woman filed a complaint against me to a regional tax inspection for my speaking in incomprehensible language with clients,” told the businessman to “... Read more -
10 days of arrest for action of solidarity with Georgia in Minsk
Liudmila Atakulava, a Young Front activist, has been sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest for participation in a rally near the Russian Embassy on August 11. The decision has been passed by the court of Tsentralny district in Minsk. Atakulava was charged with violation of rules of holding... Read more -
Rally in front of Russian Embassy in Minsk disbanded by policemen with machine guns
Activists of the Young Front organization tried to hold the rally in support of Georgia in front of the Russian Embassy in Minsk. 15 activists of the organisation gathered near the Embassy with slogans: “Stop aggression”, “Russia-Georgia: war with peacekeeping intent?”,... Read more -
Riot policemen and KGB burst into Young Front head office. Organisation leaders arrested
Riot policemen, policemen and KGB officers broke into the head office of the Young Front in Karol Street in Minsk. When breaking into the office, policemen broke two entrance doors of the head office. The leaders of the organisation Zmitser Dashkevich and Artur Finkevich, as well as 4 activists of... Read more -
Members of Stanislau Bahdankevich’s initiative group beaten up
In the microdistrict Kurasoushchyna opposition activists Yury Fabisheuski and Syarhei Kastylenka, an activist of the electoral campaign headquarters, were beaten up. The incident took place yesterday during collection of signatures in support of S. Bahdankevich. “Before we entered another... Read more