News for April 2004

29.04.2004 The Volny Chas Independent Newspaper Denied Printing Services

29.04.2004 On 26 April Minsk city court rejected the cassation complaint filed by the Narodnaya Vola editorial board

28.04.2004 Ludmila Hraznova Fined 225 Basic Units (2000 USD)

28.04.2004 BPF Deputy Chair in Jail for 10 Days

28.04.2004 Two UCP Members Got into Neurosurgery after Attack of Four Strangers

28.04.2004 Brest Police Detains Four Activists for Leaflet Distribution

28.04.2004 Judge Natalla Skuharova Passes Groundlessly Harsh Sentence to UCP Activist

28.04.2004 Amnesty International Activists from the UK Support "Viasna"

27.04.2004 Malaryta Official Claims BPF Supported Fascists during World War II

27.04.2004 Savetski Court to Try UCP Activist Andrei Kozel Today

27.04.2004 Eleven Participants of Chernobyl Action in Vitebsk Detained on 26 April

27.04.2004 Mikhail Marynich Arrested

27.04.2004 Organizers of Chernobyl March Rally Tried Today

27.04.2004 Road Police Take Driving License of BPF Activist Away and Seize His Car for ''Expert Examination"

26.04.2004 Plain Clothes Block BPF Head-quarters before “Chernobyl Way”

26.04.2004 Tatsiana Protska Undertakes Not to Leave City Precincts

26.04.2004 Hrodna Association of Belarusian Language Expelled from Office

26.04.2004 Criminal Case Brought against Mikhail Varanets

25.04.2004 Journalist’s Property Distrained

23.04.2004 Navapolatsk City Executive Committee Prohibits Meeting with Participation of Representatives of Pre-electoral Block “5+”.

23.04.2004 Warning for Meeting in Slonim

23.04.2004 Supreme Court Liquidates Belarusian Center for Constitutionalism and Comparative Legal Studies and International Institute for Political Studies

23.04.2004 Relatives of Missing Politicians Support Resolution of UN Commission on Human Rights

23.04.2004 Supreme Court Decided to Liquidate Belarusian Union of Young Politicians

23.04.2004 Homel Chyhunachny Borough Court Dissatisfies Suit of “BDG” Subscriber

23.04.2004 Prosecutor’s Office Warns Intex-Press Editor and Journalist

23.04.2004 Journalist Is Fined for Information about Electoral Crimes

23.04.2004 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint program of FIDH and OMCT) Press Release - Publication of a Report

22.04.2004 Internatonal judicial observation mission report. Belarus: The "liquidation" of the independent civil sociaty.

21.04.2004 Supreme Court Liquidates “New Group”