The Union of Belarusian Poles (UBP) has petitioned the heads of the Committee for State Security (KGB) and the interior ministry to end pressure on its activists in the Brest region.
On May 27 property of the chairman of Minks regional branch of the United Civil Party Maryna Bahdanovich was confiscated, the UCP press service informs.
The Supreme Court of Belarus has passed a decision about two district branches of the Belarusian Popular Front party in Hrodna. The reason for liquidation is their legal addresses in the residential houses, informational department of the human rights center “Viasna” reports.
Nine members of the European Parliament representing Latvia, Lithuania and Poland signed a declaration calling on the European Commission to support Belarus’ civil society and impose sanctions on Belarusian officials involved in human rights abuse.
As it is announced at a press conference organized by the “Young Front” today, four activists of the “Young Front” (Ihar Schekarevich, Valery Matskevich, Artur Finkevich and Zmitser Dashkevich) and a Zubr activist Mikhail Kandrashou has joined the six activists of different youth organizations who had gone on hunger strike before.
The Council of Europe`s Human Rights Commissioner Alvaro Gil-Robles does not consider Belarus a democratic state. “Belarus is not a democratic state, as if it were a democratic state, it would be a member of the Council of Europe,” Alvaro Gil-Robles told at a press conference in Moscow on Friday.
Polish and Lithuanian politicians call upon international isolation of Belarusian leadership in order to make it resume the process of democratization of the country. As the Liga Business Inform reports with reference to Deutsche Welle, during the meeting with the Belarusian oppositional activists on Saturday in the Polish town of Bialowiezha, a proposal was made to ban entry to the EU countries for all members of the Belarusian government who are accountable for human rights violation.
The member of the liquidated human rights organization “Legal Assistance to Population” Raisa Mikhailouskaya seeks political asylum in Canada. As the human rights center “Viasna” informs, Raisa Mikhailouskaya went to Canada on invitation of a partner organization. However, recent events have made her seek asylum. As said by Aleh Vouchak (Oleg Volchek), the head of the liquidated organization “Legal Assistance to Population”, she had been receiving telephone calls with threats from unknown people last months.
Activist of Barysau branch of the Zubr movement Mikhail Kandrashou announced that he joins the hunger strike of students from Zhodzina. The activists of the “Young Front” Zmitser Chartkou, Alyaksandr Vinagradau, Yauhen Vaukavets, Syarzhuk Murashka, Paval Krasouski and Syarzhuk Marchuk are on hunger strike for the sixth day. They protest against expulsion of students from educational institutions for political reasons. Mikhail Kandrashou knows this problem personally. Last autumn he was expelled from Barysau specialized school number 85 for participation in political rallies.
Relatives of imprisoned opposition leader Mikhail Marinich have filed a complaint with Minsk’s Tsentralny District Court about the impending confiscation of household effects from the apartment where he is officially registered as one of the tenants.
Sergei Skrebets, one of the few opponents of Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko in the 2000-2004 House of Representatives who is currently held in a pretrial detention center in Brest, met with his wife, Aleksandra, on Friday.
Belarusian Justice Minister Viktor Golovanov warned in an interview with BelaPAN on Friday that on June 1, the justice ministry would start canceling the registration of political parties` cells that would fail to move from residential to office buildings by that time.
Anzhelika Boris, who was elected leader of the Union of Belarusian Poles (UBP) at a recent convention that the Belarusian justice ministry has refused to recognize, vowed her determination to fight to the end to preserve the organization.
"It is our final opinion that the 6th convention of the Union of Belarusian Poles was illegitimate," Justice Minister Viktor Golovanov said in an interview with BelaPAN on May 27.
More than 100 representatives of the Belarusian intelligentsia from all regions of Belarus at a meeting in a forest 70 kilometers north of Minsk approved a prominent educator’s bid for democratic forces’ nomination of a single candidate in next year’s presidential election.
Alvaro Gil-Robles, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, on May 27 expressed hope that Belarus will eventually become a democracy, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
The Philippines and Iraq were the most deadly countries for journalists over the past six months, a report said today. Nine journalists were killed in the Philippines and another 10 in Iraq between last November and May, according to the report by the World Association of Newspapers. The report named Nepal, Cuba, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Eritrea, China and Zimbabwe as "a few of the worst offenders" against press freedom, criticizing the Governments` tight control over information.
Aleksandr Lukashenko will stand a little chance of winning in Belarus` 2006 presidential race, Anatoly Lebedko, chairman of the United Civic Party (UCP), said at a news conference held in the office of Ukraine`s UNIAN news agency in Kyiv on May 27.
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