News for August 2005

31.08.2005 EU is concerned over the latest decree of Aliaxandr Lukashenka regarding international technical assistance

31.08.2005 UCP members will be brought before administrative court for a protest in Vaukavysk

31.08.2005 The Belorusskaia delovaia gazeta and the Belorusskaia gazeta still have not been re-registered for their names

30.08.2005 Finally they accepted a food parcel for the Kkhmara movement activists!

30.08.2005 Trial at the start of the academic year

30.08.2005 The journalist Ivan Roman sent a complaint to the procurator's office for inhuman conditions in the Shchuchyna detention center

30.08.2005 Georgian diplomats attempt to have the Kkhmara movement released

30.08.2005 Interest in the political cartoons only increases

30.08.2005 Valiantsin Stefanovich: Absolutely understandable that this is a filthy provocation

30.08.2005 Lali Kandelaki and Atsiko Mikadze, the mothers of the Kkhmara activists arrested in Belarus, demand the Belarusian authorities give their children back.

30.08.2005 US Embassy in Belarus is indignant at the false statements by a Belarusian girl that were printed in the Obozrevatel

30.08.2005 Special settlement office in Baranavichy did not allow Mikola Statkievich to visit Minsk

30.08.2005 Deputies of local soviets demand that Lukashenka stop persecution of the Union of Poles activists

29.08.2005 Fine of 40 basic units awarded to a PCB member for a party assembly in Brest District

29.08.2005 Police broke into Anzhalika Borys's apartment

29.08.2005 29 September Kkhmara movement activists arrested to 15 days.

29.08.2005 Lawyer again not allowed to see the detained citizens of Georgia

29.08.2005 Torture used against Zubr activist

29.08.2005 The Zubr activists arrested for the action of solidarity with the activists serve their punishment in the special detention center in Akrestsina Street.

29.08.2005 The UPB activist, journalist Andrei Pachobut was fined

29.08.2005 Gazeta Wyborcza: KGB forced UPB congress delegates in Vaukavysk

29.08.2005 Anzhalika Borys: The congress cannot be called democratic

27.08.2005 The detained citizens of Georgia Georgi Kandelaki and Luka Tsuladze were not deported from Belarus and are still kept in the detention center

27.08.2005 In the evening 26 August in Hrodna Vadzim Saranchukou, the Human Rights Center Viasna lawyer, was detained in Hrodna Region.

26.08.2005 The special detention center administration refused to the arrested Kkhmara activists the right to defense and food parcels.

26.08.2005 In Minsk during an action of solidarity with the arrested activists of the Georgian movement Kkhmara five Zubr movement activists were arrested

26.08.2005 Georgia angry at accusations brought against the Kkhmara activists

26.08.2005 The Union of Poles activist journalist Andrei Pachobut and the Salidarnasts newspaper correspondent Ivan Roman detained

26.08.2005 Four Union of Poles activists are suspects in a criminal case

26.08.2005 Polish TV employee was not allowed to come to Belarus