Activist of “Zubr” movement Pavel Ugrinovich was detained on the 9th of April in Mahiliou. Police officers accused him of making graffiti “Freedom to Marinich!” on fence near university. Later they confiscated spray-paint can and let him go. Not a single legal document was compiled. Also police officers refused to identify themselves. Human right service of “Zubr” is preparing appeal on illegal action of police officers.
A hearing will open in the Supreme Court on April 12 to consider the justice ministry’s suit filed against the Independent Institute for Social, Economic and Political Studies (IISEPS). The ministry wants the independent pollster closed down over a string of alleged irregularities, IISEPS Deputy Director Vladimir Dorokhov told BelaPAN.
The rally in support of political prisoner Mikhail Marynich has taken place on Friday in Maladzechna. Zubr activists have lined up in front of the entrance of the city Victory Park, holding the portraits of the political prisoner.
In the beginning of April a letter by the ideology department of Barysau city executive committee was disseminated among the enterprises and organizations of the city. The letter contains a prohibition of collective subscription to independent newspapers “Kurjer iz Borisova” and “Borisovskie novosti”. At some enterprises, for instance, in Barysau treating plant, the administration has demanded the organizers of the subscription to compensate the cost of subscription to independent newspapers from their own money, the Belarusian Association of Journalists informs.
The court of the Kastrychnitski District of Minsk partially sustained the claim of the citizen of the USA Arkadiy Mar to deputy editor-in-chief of the “Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta” and the publisher of the newspaper, a private unitary enterprise “Marat”. The journalist and publishing firm have been found guilty of insulting honour and dignity of the plaintiff. Iryna Khalip is to pay compensation to Arkadiy Mar amounting to 10 million rubles (more than 4,500 USD), and the private unitary enterprise “Marat” is to pay 50 million rubles (about 23,000 USD). The plaintiff, as we have informed, asked a compensation of 1 million USD.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk has explained the reasons why the Ukrainian president publicly announced his determination to cooperate with the United States in supporting the advance of freedom in Belarus.
A general conference of pro-democracy activists based in the Vitebsk region has been postponed until May after the organizers had the venue arrangement cancelled at the last minute. At the conference, which was scheduled to take place on Sunday, the activists were to vote for potential opposition candidates who they think would stand the biggest chance of victory in the 2006 presidential election, Yelena Zalesskaya of the United Civic Party (UCP)’s Vitebsk branch, told BelaPAN.
Prosecutors in capital of Minsk, have reopened the inquiry into the July 2000 abduction of Dmitry Zavadsky, a 29-year-old cameraman for the Russian public network ORT, according to the Minsk-based human rights group Charter 97.
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader brought a $93,000 libel action against the Narodnaya Volya on April 5, claiming he had been defamed by the Minsk-based private newspaper’s reporting of allegations that the LDP cooperated and received financial assistance from the Saddam Hussein regime.
More than 61 percent of the Belarusians believe that a popular uprising modeled after Ukraine’s "Orange Revolution" is unlikely in Belarus, according to a poll taken by the Minsk-based Independent Institute for Social, Economic and Political Studies (IISEPS) in March.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is convinced that no revolutions threaten Belarus. According to Lukashenko, he is not concerned about this problem. "We have no reasons and background to make people gather on squares," Lukashenko said at the session following his Sochi meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The situation in Belarus is stable, the head of state said pointing to the growth of the country`s economy and people`s well-being.
Aleksandr Lukashenko has issued a presidential edict that encourages agencies to recommend for decoration more persons who do not hold high posts, but render important services such as “defending and strengthening the state, democratic society, the unity of the people and increasing the country’s intellectual and spiritual potential.”
A Supreme Court judge on April 8 began hearing the United Civic Party’s (UCP) appeal against the justice ministry’s warning over its failure to meet the February 1 deadline for relocating chapters from residential to office buildings.
A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for technical assistance in increasing the efficiency of using tools of supervision over the performance of banks and the banking sector as a whole is to work in Belarus between April 11 and 20, according to Mikhail Zhuravovich, spokesman for the National Bank of Belarus.
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