News for December 2003

30.12.2003 SUPREME COURT DID NOT SATISFY VIASNA’S COMPLAINT ON ITS LIQUIDATION CASE

30.12.2003 ONE MORE POLITICAL PRISONER IN BELARUS?

27.12.2003 THE VECHERNI STOLIN FOUNDER FOUND GUILTY OF INSULTING AN OFFICIAL (ART 369 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE)

26.12.2003 ACCORDING TO SUPREME COURT, IT IS LEGAL NOT TO REGISTER THE ASSEMBLY

26.12.2003 FINED FOR SPREADING LEAFLETS ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

24.12.2003 ZUBR ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO 5 DAYS OF JAIL

23.12.2003 ORSHA MEMBER OF CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE PARTY FINED FOR PICKET OF 1 YEAR AGO

23.12.2003 CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN PARTY MEMBERS RECEIVED HEAVY FINES

22.12.2003 106 STUDENTS OF YAKUB KOLAS NATIONAL HUMANITIES LYCEUM TO STUDY IN VILNIUS LYCEUM DECEMBER 22 TO JANUARY 3

22.12.2003 SUPREME ECONOMIC COURT TO HEAR KRYCHAW NEWSPAPER CASE

19.12.2003 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL STARTS ACTION IN SUPPORT OF IMPRISONED PROFESSOR BANDAZHEWSKI

19.12.2003 RABOCHY EX EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MET MISNK JOURNALISTS ON COMPLETING HIS PRISON TERM

19.12.2003 PRESIDENT’S SECURITY SERVICE KEEPS ACCREDITED JOURNALISTS OUT OF PARLIAMENT

19.12.2003 POLICE DETAIN TWO ZUBR ACTIVISTS

19.12.2003 Disappeared persons in Belarus Introductory memorandum Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights Rapporteur: Mr Christos Pourgourides, Cyprus, Group of the European People's Party

18.12.2003 INDEPENDENT MEDIA ENCOUNTERED SERIOUS PROBLEMS DURING SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN

18.12.2003 HAVING SERVED 30-DAY JAIL TERM FOR LEAFLET DISTRIBUTION ARTUR FINKEVICH APPEALS AGAINST THE COURT DECISION. HE CONSIDERS COURT DECISION ILLEGAL AND VIOLATING NORMS OF SUBSTANTIVE LAW

18.12.2003 PUNISHED THREE TIMES. ARTUR FINKEVICH FINED FOR OFFENCE HE HAD SERVED 2 JAIL SENTENCES FOR

17.12.2003 Somebody Was Dying from Fear, Somebody Was Seeking the Truth… and Found It, or Human Rights In Smarhon, Year 2003

17.12.2003 Sviatlana Zavadskaya Is Disappointed with Interrogation at Prosecutor’s Office (Radio “Liberty”)

17.12.2003 Prisoner of Conscience Viktar Ivashkevich Is Free!

16.12.2003 ZUBR Activists Fined for Distribution of Newspaper

16.12.2003 Constitutional Court Proposes to Chamber of Representatives to Provide Real Equality to Belarusian and Russian Languages

16.12.2003 Supreme Court to Consider Complaint against Non-Registration of Association of Public Associations “Assembly”

16.12.2003 Belarusians Participate in Peace-Making

16.12.2003 Moldovan Human Rights Activists Urge Belarusian Authorities to Change Laws on Public Organizations

15.12.2003 Zmitser Zavadski’s Case Renewed

15.12.2003 Aliaksandr Sviryd Comments on KGB Internet Control in Belarus

15.12.2003 Worker of “Amnesty International” Not Admitted to Belarus

15.12.2003 Hristos Purgurides: “Persecution of Mass Media in Belarus is Everyday Practice” (Radio “Liberty”)