News for April 2005

26.04.2005 In Minsk the most active participants of the protest (around 40 people) were detained by the riot police

26.04.2005 At 6.20 Minsk police detained more than 10 participants of the protest in Skaryny Avenue

26.04.2005 Mahilou police detained about 30 participants of the action in commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster

26.04.2005 On 26 April at 5.30 p.m. in Minsk police detained a citizen of Russia, a member of the Union of Right Forces, who came to take part in the action in commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster

26.04.2005 On 26 April a year passed since the former ambassador and minister Mikhail Marynich was arrested. Now he is in prison. Because the court ruled he had allegedly misappropriated computers.

26.04.2005 26 April – Day of the Chernobyl Disaster. 19 years have passed since the explosion on the nuclear power station Why does the Belarusian community pay less attention to the Chernobyl-related problems? The Radio Liberty correspondent is discussing this topic with the imprisoned professor-radiologist Yury Bandazheuski

26.04.2005 Yet another criminal case against a non-state newspaper for publicly degrading the President may be brought in Belarus soon

26.04.2005 Ambassadors of Lithuania and Latvia visited Mikhail Marynich in prison

26.04.2005 Andrei Klimau will stay behind the bars

26.04.2005 30 shops of Minsk refuse to sell independent periodicals

26.04.2005 In mid-April Ministry of Information issued warnings to the editorial offices of the independent newspapers Narodnaia volia, Borisovskiye novosti and Volnaie Hlybokaie

25.04.2005 Investigator Will Determine Custody Type for Klimau

22.04.2005 Andrei Klimau detained in Minsk

22.04.2005 Two Zubr activists detained in Minsk

22.04.2005 Minsk allowed an action in commemoration of the Chernobyl disaster, Babruisk authorities banned a picket.

22.04.2005 Vorsha teachers detained a student for distributing a newspaper, then called KGB and police

22.04.2005 Parliament of Georgia adopted a resolution, where it expressed its deep concern over the human rights situation in Belarus

21.04.2005 The world journalist organizations are concerned over the course of investigation into the murder of V.Charkasava

21.04.2005 The court punished the journalist of the independent newspaper Gazeta dlia vas

21.04.2005 The US Embassy Statement regarding the liquidation of the Independent Institute for Socio-Economic and Political Research (IISEPR).

21.04.2005 In Navapolatsk deputy rectors detained two students for distributing the student newsletter, and handed them over to the police

21.04.2005 The Procurator’s Office of Belarus refused to stage a press-briefing on the course of the investigation into the murder of Veranika Charkasava

21.04.2005 The re-registration deadline for the organization structures of the parties and public associations extended to 1 June.

21.04.2005 The 27 April concert by Krama scheduled to take place in the Reactor nightclub was banned – after initial permission, the event organizers were eventually denied the opportunity

20.04.2005 Catholics require the authorities to give back the church and Bernardine monastery

20.04.2005 Article 19 sent an open letter to the head of the Belarusian state A.Lukashenka, expressing its deep concern over the deteriorated situation with freedom of expression in Belarus

19.04.2005 About ten parties and public associations got closed in 2005

19.04.2005 Relatives of the murdered journalist Veranika Charkasava are not satisfied with investigation progression

19.04.2005 9000 copies of the Occasional President to be confiscated in favor of the state

19.04.2005 Newspaper business should have no room for foreign capital