Dmitriy Dashkevich’s lawyer Alexandr Galiev stated that the trial would start on the 6th of November and would be held in the regime of closed hearing.
Dashkevich who is serving 1.5 years in Shklov prison for the participation in the name of unregistered organization is accused under article 402 CC “The refuse to give testimonial evidence” against his friends from Maladoi Front.
According to this article he could be sentenced to maximum half a year.

Trial of yesterday detained activists Pavel Baranousky and Alyaksei Shidlousky which was to be held today at the Partizansky district court of Minsk has been rescheduled for 8 August.

The hearing of the case has been rescheduled for the KGB staff-members who committed the detainment to be called to the court as the witnesses. It became known that Pavel Baranousky was charged of applying the stickers and Alyaksei Shidlousky was blamed for minor public disorder actions (swearing) taken directly at the militia department. The latter case evoked Judge Alena Tsitsynkova’s surprise”What was he actually detained for?”

Their cases are to be held 8 August at 2.30 p.m. The detained were made to give a non-departure signed statement.

Such judgment was made by the Maskousky district court of Minsk. The youth activist was convicted of violating Article 17.1 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus (minor disorderly conduct).He was charged of swearing in the public place

As of today, Navapolatsk has become the only town in the country where the authorities gave the permission for holding the pickets in support of the former presidential candidate and present political prisoner Alyaksandr Kazulin.

An hour before the appointed near the Red Catholic Church meeting with the deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the 12th Convening at the entrances of the Nyamiga and Kupalauskaya metro stations reinforced militia groups were notices.

Leninsky district court of Minsk sentenced member of the unregistered organization “Young Front” Yaraslau Grischenya to 15 nights in prison for distributing the leaflets calling for the meeting with deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the 12th Convening who had adopted the declaration of the State Sovereignty of Belarus. The youth was convicted under the pretext of “swearing in a public place”.

Alyaksandr Milinkevich hasn’t had a meeting with a political prisoner, one of the leaders of the Young Front Artur Finkevich. During the attempt to talk to the leader of “For Freedom” movement workers of the special settlement forcibly pushed Artur into a police car and left.

To the question of Alyaksandr Milinkevich where Artur Finkevich was taken, policemen said Artur was taken to the Internal Affairs department. Soon after the incident Artur Finkevich’s friends reached him on the phone. He told to them that everything is alright with him, and put the phone down.

The political prisoner wrote so in a letter to his friends. As said by Dashkevich, the day before yesterday he was present at the commission on early conditional release, and he was denied release there, as he “has a number of penalties for violation of dress code and the day routine”.

Four young men with white-red-white symbols were detained by special purpose police unit on June 28 in the evening after a football match of premier league teams, Homel-Dinamo (Brest).

The administration of Magiliou special commandant’s office has 10 days to define disciplinary punishment for one of the “Malady Front” leaders Artur Finkevich for the incident which has taken place recently.

Artur Finkevich, a young opposition activist serving a restricted freedom term in the Mahilyow region, will be given a different job.

16 June on the Day of Belarusian Solidarity 150 people gathered at the building of the former Bernardins’ monastery in Minsk. A common prayer was made for returning the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church to the congregation, for disaffirmation of the law on religion and for equal rights of believers of all confessions in Belarus.

Today Tatsyana Rodzina, judge of Pershamajski district court, read the decree of the court. The court dismissed the claim of the activist of “For Freedom!” movement Tatsyana Sevyarynets to the education department of Pershamajski district of Vitsebsk.

“The European Humanitarian University is first of all the educational and not political project unlike other Belarusian institutions of higher education. It is free of ideological monitoring” is said in the appeal of the management of the university, which was after being closed in Belarus registered in Lithuania. The press service of the EHU remarks that last week the official Belarusian mass media “started another campaign of discrediting the European Humanitarian University”.

Today Belarusian Protestants start a three-day fasting. After it, on June 17, a nation-wide prayer is to start. The aim of the action is to attract attention to violations of rights of religious minorities by the government.

On the Day of Belarusian Solidarity, June 16 at 8 p.m. Belarusians will pray on the stairs of the building of St. Joseph’s church (Cyril and Methodius Street, 4) for return of the building to the Catholic Church.

As we have informed, actions and prayer services in defense of the St. Joseph’s church and a complex of monastery buildings are held daily. Belarusians demand to return the church to Catholics, and not to turn the complex into a hotel.

Young activists Henadz Sharakh, Zmitser Lisiyonak, Ales Dzeravyanka and Andrej Danileuski have been detained on June 6 near the building of Pershamajski district of Vitsebsk. They came to the court to support Valery Shchukin who is tried for a criminal offence, and are under investigation themselves. They were detained for holding an unsanctioned rally and insubordination to policemen.

9 June political prisoner was allowed to spend less than two hours out of the commendant’s headquaters. Yesterday major Uladzimir Mikhailau allowed Artur to leave the guarded territory for an hour and half. Protesting against the arbitrary behavior of the authorities the political prisoner refused such like “ mercy”, the Radio Svaboda informs.

A well-known human rights activist Valery Shchukin has been sentenced to a fine of 40 basic units (1,240,000 rubles) by a court of Pershamajski district of Vitsebsk. Besides, Valery Shchukin is to pay 250,000 rubles of moral damages for a member of the regional election commission Tatsyana Buevich allegedly insulted by him.

Rechytsa bank department No.323 of Belarusbank has secretly taken 539,000 rubles out from the account of 11-year-old Lida Shabetnkik. The girl gets allowance from the state after the death of her mother.

The father of the 11-year-old girl, the chairman of the regional branch of the Social democratic party (Hramada) Aleh Shabetnik said that no one from the bank representatives could explain him why the money had been collected from his daughter’s account. They only told that the money were taken as a fine, Radio Svaboda informs.

A political prisoner Andrei Klimau told in his letters that on May 21 he had a heart attack in Minsk remand prison No.1. The political prisoner was hospitalized to a Republican prison hospital in Kalvaryjskaya Street in Minsk. Besides, Andrei Klimau wrote that his term in prison was extended for three months.

Why have the authorities agreed with the light sentence for the Young Front’s activists? What does this step mean in the corridor negotiations with the West ? Do not the authorities wish to make a sort of a step toward the opposition and the civil society ? Those and other issues are discussed in the “Expertise of Freedom “ broadcast by the political scientist Alyaksandr Klaskousky and international coordinator of the Charter’97 Andrey Sannikov at the Radio Svaboda.

This fact has been announced by the lawyer of the young activist Pyotr Kavalenka. A criminal action was initiated against Dzyanis Dzyanisau and Tatsyana Elavaya for holding a number of protest rallies in Vitsebsk. They were charged under Article 342 of the Criminal Code (organization of actions which violate public order and counteraction to the authorities). Under this article the guy faces a three-year imprisonment.

A criminal actions against opposition activists Alyaksandr Uryuski, Alyaksandra Yasiuk and Natalya Starastsina have been suspended. The investigator needed two months to come to such a conclusion.

On June 3 two months will pass since the moment of detention of an opposition leader Andrei Klimau. Law-enforcing agencies are to define a measure of restraint for the politician: is he to be released or to be kept in custody. As we have informed, a few days ago Klimau was placed to a republican clinical hospital because of heart problems.