http://www.salidarnasc.org Навіны ru Copyright 2006-2008, Salidarnasc.org info@salidarnasc.org info@salidarnasc.org Third Way RSS generator 2.0 http://salidarnasc.org/rsslogo.gif http://www.salidarnasc.org/ http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/572 Belarusian activists who had been expelled from Belarusian universities on political reasons and who are studying in foreign universities now, are stopped on the border and told that they are prohibited to leave Belarus. Names of the students are put on the so-called “black lists”. In this way military enlistment offices are trying to send unwanted oppositionists to the army service. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:02:30 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/572 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/570 The Maskouski district court of Minsk dismissed a complaint of Svyatlana Zavadskaya against unjust acts of Mikhail Titsyankou, deputy head of the Minsk city executive committee, who banned holding a picket on 7 May, at the anniversary of disappearance of former minister of internal affaires of Belarus Yury Zakharanka. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:02:05 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/570 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/566 The Ministry of Culture denied a suggestion on granting the national white-red-white flag the status of a historical and cultural object due to “insufficient arguments and documental validity”. As BelaPAN has learnt from Anton Astapovich, head of the Belarusian Voluntary Association of History and Culture Monuments Protection, on 18 June the office received an extract from minutes of the session of the Belarusian Republican Scientific Methodical Council on Cultural and Historical Heritage at the Ministry of Culture of 21 May signed by deputy head Uladzimir Hrydzyushka. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:49:22 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/566 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/564 Today law-enforcing agencies detained an Orthodox priest Leanid Akalovich. They acted under a decision of the police department of Staryja Darohi about a compulsory process. The priest was taken to the court of Staryja Darohi. Judge Syarhei Epikhau sentenced him to a fine of 30 basic units (more than 1,000,050 Br). The priest was found guilty of participation in an unsanctioned meeting only for consecrating a cross raised in memory of 25 dwellers assassinated by partisans on April 15, 1943. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:35:16 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/564 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/568 Justice Ministry of Belarus denied registration to the human rights and educational association “For Freedom” movement. As Radio Svaboda was told by the deputy chairman of the organisation Yuras Hubarevich, the Justice Ministry had analyzed a number of statements in mass media of the leader of the movement Alyaksandr Milinkevich and some other representatives of the movement. As a result, the ministry has come to a conclusion that the movement’s main activity won’t be a community involvement, but its activities would have a political nature. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:14:57 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/568 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/569 Valyantsin Shuklin, judge of the Constitutional Court, in practice confirmed that in Belarus there is a list of persons who cannot leave the country for political reasons. Commenting on the situation with persons banned to leave the country, the representative of Themis said to the European Radio for Belarus: “even if a person is an accused, in a criminal case, he or she cannot be left in the list of persons restricted to travel abroad for more than a year. A person cannot be a suspect for a year, two or three years. A question should be solved, whether to bring a charge against him, when one is accountable for something, or not”. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:10:18 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/569 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/565 The Draft Law on Media allows for registration of Internet resources, moreover, Belarusian Internet will be regulated not by laws, but by regulations of the Council of Ministers. At present, there are practically no independent printed editions in Belarus. Radio and TV are controlled by the authorities. The Internet has been the only source of alternative information. The law passed by vote of 93-1 in the “parliament”. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:29:34 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/565 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/563 A book about the political prisoner Syarhei Parsyukevich has been published in Vitsebsk. It has been prepared by the Committee “For Freedom of Syarhei Parsyukevich” The book has been compiled from materials of independent media that covered the story of the chairman of the Council of entrepreneurs of Smalenski market in Vitsebsk, an activist of “For Freedom” movement. This book will be received by market vendors, but also by representatives of authority bodies, the website milinkevich.org emphasizes. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:10:38 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/563 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/561 Though arrested in Minsk US citizen Emanuel Zeltser’s health state is disastrous and accusations presented to him are inconsistent, he is still in jail. As Zeltser’s lawyer Zmitser Harachka said to BelaPAN, his client wasn’t allowed to take the medicines, which are allegedly psychotropic substances illegally imported to Belarus, he is also denied of a ventilator, despite his poor tolerance of heat, besides, the arrested was shown analysis results, which are “very bad,” according to Mr Zeltser. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:30:15 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/561 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/560 A civil society group in the Horki district, Mahilyow region, has collected more than 2,500 signatures to a petition against the planned construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus, journalist Eduard Brokaraw, spokesman for the group, told BelaPAN. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:34:45 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/560 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/559 Youth activist of the campaign “European Belarus” Alyaksandr Atroshchankau is arrested for 15 days. He had trial in the Tsentralny district court of Minsk, where he was guarded to at 2.00 pm from the KGB Minsk and Minsk region directorate. He has already been guarded to a special detention center on Akrestin Street for serving punishment. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:21:54 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/559 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/557 Gintas Zegeris, a citizen of Lithuania, who carries on business in Belarus, has spent a week in the KGB remand prison in Minsk already. Vice-president of the Belarusian union of entrepreneurs Mikhail Shavelzon was arrested with him. They were arrested as suspected in being mediators in giving a bribe. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:05:57 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/557 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/556 An activist of the Young Front Zmitser Sakalou, the best graduate of Polatsk Lyceum, has been deprived a diploma with honours for his political convictions. After the trial for a protest with a banner “Freedom to political prisoners!” in the central square of the city, Polatsk Lyceum was visited by KGB officers, the press-service of the Young Front informs. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:01:48 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/556 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/555 Belarus has a real chance to join new programmes of Brussels for Eastern partners, but Lukashenka needs to release political prisoners and carry out free democratic elections for this. Representatives of the United Democratic Forces of Belarus have said it today on a press conference, Radio Svaboda reports. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:59:51 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/555 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/554 A technical mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights begins its visit to Minsk with a meeting in the Ministry of Foreign Affaires. The mission, headed by British Gerald Mitchell, is to estimate the conditions of work of the observation mission for the parliamentary elections in Belarus and take a decision about the form the OSCE will observe the elections if it will. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:58:07 +0000 http://www.salidarnasc.org/node/554