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News on 17.06.2008
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Today law-enforcing agencies detained an Orthodox priest Leanid Akalovich. They acted under a decision of the police department of Staryja Darohi about a compulsory process.
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The Draft Law on Media allows for registration of Internet resources, moreover, Belarusian Internet will be regulated not by laws, but by regulations of the Council of Ministers. At present, there are practically no independent printed editions in Belarus. Radio and TV are controlled by the authorities. The Internet has been the only source of alternative information. The law passed by vote of 93-1 in the “parliament”.
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In the settlement of Sosny which is situated in a few kilometers by Minsk, a radioactive waste storage is to be modernized.
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Actions of solidarity with political prisoners and families of disappeared politicians were held on June 16 in the evening in a number of Belarusian cities.
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The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) has repeatedly addressed the “parliament” with a request to allow the experts of the association to be present at the session of the working group and standing committee during the discussion of the Law on Media.
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“If the situation in Belarus were changed for the better, if political prisoners were released, media monopoly and pressure over independent editions were stopped, the sanctions would not be needed any more,” Congressman Alcee L. Hastings, Chairman of the US Helsinki Commission, said.
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Valyantsin Shuklin, judge of the Constitutional Court, in practice confirmed that in Belarus there is a list of persons who cannot leave the country for political reasons.
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A book about the political prisoner Syarhei Parsyukevich has been published in Vitsebsk. It has been prepared by the Committee “For Freedom of Syarhei Parsyukevich”
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Activists of the civil campaign “European Belarus” held a number of rallies in support of political prisoners in Minsk on June 16, the Day of Solidarity. They also expressed solidarity with Ivan Shyla, a Young Front member who had been expelled from the school.
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The Belarusian “parliament” is to review the draft law on media in the first reading today. Independent experts think if the law is adopted as it is drafted now, the independent press will get irreparable blow.