News for October 2004

29.10.2004 Action Participants Taken from Jail to Police Investigation Department for Interrogation

29.10.2004 67-Year-Old Pensioner on Hunger Strike to Protest against Fraud at Election and Referendum

29.10.2004 Two More Journalists Detained In Hrodna. Sentence to Be Passed on Mazheika on November 1

29.10.2004 Centralny Court of Minsk Sentences Siarhei Matskoits to 15 Days of Jail.

29.10.2004 Human Rights Activist Mikalai Aksamit and Mestnaya Gazeta Chief Editor Andrei Shantarovich Continue Hunger Strike

29.10.2004 Lithuanian Seimas Considers Belarusian Elections and Referendum Illegitimate

29.10.2004 Europarliament Does Not Recognize Legitimacy of Referendum and Elections European Parliament resolution on the political situation in Belarus after the parliamentary elections and referendum of 17 October 2004

28.10.2004 Marynich Left behind Bars “in Investigation Interests”

28.10.2004 Minsk Bookstores Refuse to Sell Arche Magazine

27.10.2004 One More Hunger Strike in Vawkavysk

27.10.2004 Police Detains Pavel Mazheyka

27.10.2004 Leaders of Entrepreneurs Are Sent to Colonies

27.10.2004 Reaction of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czech Republic to Parliamentary Election and Referendum in Belarus

26.10.2004 Observer Mission of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe (IDEE) for the General Elections and the Republican Referendum in Belarus Conducted on October 12-17, 2004: Initial Report

26.10.2004 More Imprisonments

23.10.2004 European Commission for Democracy tbhrough Law (Venice Commission): Opinion on the Referendum of 17 October 2004 in Belarus

23.10.2004 REVIEW OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN BELARUS FOR SEPTEMBER 2004

22.10.2004 “Elegant Victory” over Anatol Liabedzka

22.10.2004 Valiantsin Stefanovich Condemns Trials of Protesters for Explicit Violence

22.10.2004 Criminal Case for Protest Actions

22.10.2004 Special Police Forces Tortured Participants of Protests Actions of 18-19 October

22.10.2004 Chief Editor of “Mestnaya Gazeta” Andrey Shantarovich on Hunger Strike

22.10.2004 Flat of Vice-Head of BPF Ales Mikhalevich Is Robbed

22.10.2004 “Zubr” Coordinator Is Sentenced to 7 Days of Jail

21.10.2004 Statement of Human Rights Center "Viasna": New wave of political repression has started in Belarus

21.10.2004 Public Protests against Falsification of Election and Referendum Continue in Belarus

20.10.2004 Trial of Sheremet Is Delayed

20.10.2004 18-20 October: Mass Arrests and Trials

19.10.2004 College Board of Hrodna Regional Court Upholds Sentence to Levanewski and Vasilyew

19.10.2004 Student Receives Ten Days of Jail for Fly-sheets