News for December 2004

30.12.2004 Police Detain about 20 Persons in Yanka Kupala Park

23.12.2004 Belarusian Election Observers Get Detained

23.12.2004 40 Viasna Observers Manage to Leave for Kyiv

22.12.2004 OMON Police Detains Observers of Election in Ukraine During Briefing in Hotel Belarus

21.12.2004 Viasna Sends 41 Observers to Ukrainian Elections

19.12.2004 Zubr Activist Gets 15 Days of Jail for Distributing Newspapers

18.12.2004 REVIEW OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN BELARUS FOR NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2004

15.12.2004 KGB Warns Zmitser Barodka about Possible Punishment for Oppositional Activity

14.12.2004 Head of Human Rights Organization “Aslona” Mikola Aksamit Arrested for Five Days

14.12.2004 KGB Searches Flat of Vice-head of Institute for Social, Economic and Political Studies at Night

14.12.2004 Zhodzina Office of “Young Front” Is Sealed

13.12.2004 Prosecutor's Office Doesn't Answer to Complaints of Candidates to Parliament

13.12.2004 Member of Election Commission Fined Miminal Sum for Massacre Threats to Observer of BPF Party

13.12.2004 Activists of Assembly of NGOs Present Proposals for Ammendment of Legislation about Public Organizations in Belarus

13.12.2004 Local Authorities of Dziarzhynsk Refuse to Re-register Union of of Christians of Full Gospel Churches

10.12.2004 “Zubr” Activist Gets Fined

10.12.2004 Volha Zavadskaya Applies to Prosecutor General

10.12.2004 Belarusian Human Rights Activist Apply to Prosecutor General

09.12.2004 Belarus Update Vol.8, No. 7 December 1-8, 2004

08.12.2004 Prosecutor’s Office Warns RFE/RL Journalist Alherd Neviarowski

08.12.2004 Trials of “Zubr” Members Are Postponed

08.12.2004 EU Declares Head of Central Election Committee of Belarus and Police Colonel Personae Non-grata

08.12.2004 Iryna Khalip Summoned to Prosecutor’s Office again

07.12.2004 Members of Vitsebsk Branch of Young Front Complain to Prosecutor’s Office

07.12.2004 Polatsk City Court Punishes Election Observer

07.12.2004 Secretariat of Union of Belarusian Writers Can Be Deprived of its Office

06.12.2004 Trial of Iryna Makavetskaya Postponed

06.12.2004 Minsk Savetski Borough Prosecutor’s Office Warns Head of Party of Communists of Belarus

06.12.2004 Law Machinery of Belarus still Ignores Political Disappearances

03.12.2004 Ministry of Justice Gives Second Warning to Union of Belarusian Writers