News on 7.11.2007

7.11.2007

Jail in Akrestsin Street in Minsk – torture place for political prisoners 19

19:53, — Politics

The document touches upon circumstances of detentions, trials and arrests of youth leaders, members of the organization committee of the European March, political and human rights activists detained before the European March held in Minsk on October 14. The conditions of imprisonment of democratic activists in the Center for Isolation of Delinquents in Akrestsin Street in Minsk, which have become much worse after adoption of the new Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus, are described in the document. The present paper gives names of law enforcement bodies employees who authorized detentions, passed unjust sentences; the names of other authorities who took part in the repressions against the organizers of the European March.

Anti-bolshevist action in Saligorsk dispersed 5

19:47, — Politics

Belarus is the only country in the world where the anniversary of bloody October Revolution of 1917 is celebrated officially. Even Russia doesn’t celebrate it any more. Moreover, the Belarusian authorities are protecting the communist ideals aggressively. On the central Saligorsk’s square 7 November, when a delegation of the City Executive Committee was coming to the monument to Vladimir Lenin, 7 young people dressed themselves in shirts with the inscription “Communism must be judged”, and unfurled the poster with such words. The militiamen run up to them at once.