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			<title><![CDATA[Artur Finkevich in the list of restricted from traveling abroad]]></title>
			<link>http://www.spring96.org/en/news/21945/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the Young Front leaders restricted from leaving Belarus since 14 May.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>16.05.2008</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Milinkevich fined in Salihorsk]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[On May 15th leader of the Movement for Freedom Aliaksandar Milinkevich was tried. 
Representatives of mass media were not allowed in the courtroom. 

Liudmila Hraznova reports, many people, including journalists, gathered near the court building in Salihorsk. However, no one was allowed in the courtroom. The police failed to explain the reasons for such a measure

About 7 p.m. the judge announced the verdict: Aliaksandar Milinkevich, who was detained after the meeting with Salihorsk residents at a local market, was found guilty of violation of Article 23.34 of the Administrative Code and fined 20 basic units.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in April 2008]]></title>
			<link>http://www.spring96.org/en/publications/21926/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In April the trials on several politically motivated cases were conducted in Belarus. As a result the country has 12 new political convicts, two of whom have been sentenced to imprisonment. Despite the addresses of the international structures, the European countries and the US to the Belarusian authorities, politically motivated criminal persecution in Belarus is still going on. The repressions continue and acquire new forms. Now all mass actions are shot on video by police and KGB officers. Then these video recordings are used as evidence in criminal and administrative cases against activists.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Authorities demand actions of protest against chemical plant be stopped]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A group of state officials headed by the energy minister Alexander Aziartsou has met with the working collective of heat station #5 in the settlement of Druzhny (Pukhavichy district). Earlier the officials demanded that the people stopped the actions of protest against the construction of a chemical plant, started by the Russian company <i>Avgust-Bel</i>. The activists stay they will sue on this issue.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>15.05.2008</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Journalists of Hantsavitski Chas are denied accreditation again]]></title>
			<link>http://www.spring96.org/en/news/21923/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The journalists of the non-state newspaper <i>Hantsavitski Chas</i> were again denied accreditation at Hatsavichy district soviet of deputies. The first denial was issued by the presidium of the soviet of deputies and the second one – by Brest oblast soviet of deputies. Its chairman Ashmiantsau insists that ‘state organ is not obliged to give accreditation to journalists’ and refers to some ‘discrediting of the state organs’ and ‘misinformation of the population in mass media’ as the reasons for which a state organ can refuse to accredit media correspondents.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>15.05.2008</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Foreign travel restrictions to Artur Finkevich]]></title>
			<link>http://www.spring96.org/en/news/21922/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the morning of 13 May, when the <i>Young Front </i>deputy head Artur Finkevich was driving in a car with his colleagues to the Belarusian-Lithuanian border (Kamenny Loh), the Belarusian customs officers tried not to allow him to cross the border. They explained his name was in the list of temporally restricted to leave Belarus. One of the border crossing officers took a personal decision to permit Finkevich to cross the border.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Milinkevich is prohibited to drink water near Orthodox chapel]]></title>
			<link>http://www.spring96.org/en/news/21921/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[14 May the leader of the <i>For Freedom</i> movement Alexander Milinkevich visited Smaliavichy and Lahoisk and met with the local citizens. During his visit to Lahoisk the politician got a notice for an attempt to drink water from a well near an orthodox chapel.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>15.05.2008</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Homel: tax inspection harasses Kastus Zhukouski]]></title>
			<link>http://www.spring96.org/en/news/21917/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Today Tsentralny district court of Homel has started the trial on the suit of the district tax inspection for forced exaction of 2 115 000 rubles (about 993 US dollars) of taxes from the local activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Kastus Zhukouski.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>14.05.2008</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Detentions of youth activists in Polatsk]]></title>
			<link>http://www.spring96.org/en/news/21916/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[14 May, at 7.30 p.m., an action in support of political prisoners took place in Polatsk. Members of the <i>Young Front </i>and the Belarusian Christian Democracy held a banner <i>Freedom to Political Prisoners</i>. The action lasted for several minutes only. Then its participants were detained and guarded to a police department. Among them there is Mikalai Dzemidzenka Siarhei Hlinski, Siarhei Karalionak, Ales Krutkin, Zmitser Sakalou and Mikhas (surname not known yet).]]></description>
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			<pubDate>14.05.2008</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka fined]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The judge of Chyhunachny district court of Vitsebsk Uladzislau Shykarou ruled to fine the activist of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian People’s Front Siarhei Kavalenka under part 3 of Article 23.34 of the Administrative Code (violation of the rules for organizing and holding mass actions) for participation in a peaceful mass action on 26 April, dedicated to an anniversary of Chernobyl accident.]]></description>
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