News for January 2004

30.01.2004 Evangelic Churches Are Concerned with Attempts of Authorities to Limit Presence of Children at Ministrations

30.01.2004 Opinion of Belarusian Helsinki Committee about Sanctions of Taxation Bodies

30.01.2004 “Hrodnaablsayuzdruk” Refuses to Sell “Den” Newspaper

30.01.2004 Barysaw Police Detains Three ZUBR Activists

29.01.2004 Statement of Belarusian Pen-Center

29.01.2004 Belarusian Association of Journalists Demands Objective Investigation of Threats to Iryna Makavetskaya

29.01.2004 Independent Society of Legal Research: Liquidated

29.01.2004 Aksana Novikava Fined 3,5 Million Rubles for Unauthorized Picketing

29.01.2004 Belarusian Helsinki Committee Fined 380 Million Rubles

29.01.2004 International Federation for Human Rights Press Release

28.01.2004 50 Million Rubles’ Suits against “Narodnaya Volia”

28.01.2004 PACE Reacts to Sutiation with Disappearances in Belarus

28.01.2004 Sergey Kovalyov: More Suspicions against Belarusian Authorities

28.01.2004 Krychaw Authorities Refuse to Register Branch of Belarusian Association of Journalists

27.01.2004 Presentation of White Book: Monitoring of Religious Situation in Belarus for August 2002 – January 2003

27.01.2004 Statement of Forum Participants

27.01.2004 ZUBR Activists Get Fined and Beaten

27.01.2004 Forum of Human Rights Defenders

26.01.2004 First United Human Rights Forum in Belarus

22.01.2004 RELATIVES OF THE ABDUCTED POLITICIANS ADDRESSED KGB

22.01.2004 POLICE DETAIN JACOB GUTMAN, PRESIDENT OF WORLD ASSOCIATION OF BELARUSIAN JEWS

22.01.2004 HEADS OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES ADDRESS MINISTERS OF JUSTICE AND EDUCATION WITH COMPLAINT AGAINST ILLEGAL ACTIONS OF BELARUSIAN NATIONAL YOUTH UNION (BRSM)

22.01.2004 ASSEMBLY MAGAZINE DETAINED IN POST OFFICE

22.01.2004 ATTACK ON CHARTER-97 WEB-SITE

22.01.2004 COURT HEARING ON LIQUIDATION OF INDEPENDENT SOCIETY FOR LEGAL RESEARCH POSTPONED TILL JANUARY 28

21.01.2004 POLICE IDENTIFIED STRANGER THREATENING BDG JOURNALIST The stranger, calling journalist Iryna Makavetskaya in the middle of the night and threatening her with death, turned out to be Viachaslaw Bulkin, 25, staff member of Homel state-owned TV and Radio company.

20.01.2004 THE MESTNAYA GAZETA PUBLISHES MATERIALS OF THE NOVAYA HAZETA SMARHONI, HAS PROBLEMS WITH DISTRIBUTION

20.01.2004 THE SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH PUBLISHES LETTER OF SHEFFIELD GROUP OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IN SUPPORT OF BELARUSIAN DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY

19.01.2004 JANUARY 16 WAS THE LAST DAY OF ISSUE OF INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER “REGION-VESTI” IN SVETLAHORSK

19.01.2004 JANUARY 20 MINSK CITY COURT TO HEAR LIQUIDATION CASE OF INDEPENDENT SOCIETY FOR LEGAL RESEARCH