On 4 September the Days of Belarusian Literature started in the town of Kamianiets in Brest region. The organizers of this official measure didn’t invite to it members of the Union of Belarusian Writers that is considered to be “opposition” to the official literary associations.
On September 1 in Darashevichy village (Petrykauski District) a group of armed special police officers under the direction of major S. Kutasau detained a journalist (Anatolij Hatouchyts, chairperson of Hrodna affiliate of BAJ) for 1,5 hours. The journalist was interviewing villagers and taking pictures of the barrier separating the village from the river Prypiat. (This photo-report was for "Narodnaja Vola"). A. Hatouchyts`s SONY dictaphones (digital and cassette) and a "Zenit" camera were confiscated, his car was searched and 4 audio cassettes with music were confiscated too. Nothing has been given back yet.
Activists of Georgian movement “Kmara” Georgy Kandelaki and Luka Tsuladze are coming back to Tbilisy. They were released from Belarusian prison on Friday. They have been illegally imprisoned for almost 10 days. That very day they left for Kiev. During their stay in totalitarian Belarus they were recognized as prisoners of conscience. Georgian ministry of foreign affairs and President Mihail Saakashvili estimated the arrest as political.
The United States is again urging Belarus to cease its repression of independent civil society and to honor the commitments to human rights made in agreements with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Speaking to the OSCE Permanent Council September 1, U.S. Ambassador Julie Finley outlined some of the most "egregious" recent violations of human rights standards on the part of Belarusian authorities:
The Supreme Court of Belarus finally responded to the complaint of Valiery Lievanieuski, submitted in March 2005 against the sentence, according to which he was found guilty in defamation of president and punished with two years of jail. The Supreme Court decided to leave the sentence unchanged.
In 2003 the authorities liquidated Iakub Kolas Belarusian Humanities Lyceum with Belarusian language of instruction and deprived it of the building in Kirau Street 21. Now this building is passed to Minsk Tsentralny Borough Court. Soon the interior structure of the building will be changed and the roof will be repaired. According to the builders, the repairs must be over by 1 January 2006.
A new generation of revolutionaries, inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement and guided by slick marketing experts, is plotting to spread change to Belarus, one of Europe’s last dictatorships.
On the last week another group of journalists from Moscow and outlying districts has left Minsk, where they have been the subjects of brainwashing about Belarusian theory of authoritarian state, standing on the bases of global vertical subordination, anti-Americanism, anti-globalization, post-socialism and the cult of the Belarusian first President`s personality.
Twenty-five years after the Solidarity movement came into existence in August 1980, Poland is back on everybody`s lips. Far too often, both in Poland and abroad, people forget about Solidarity`s heritage and its influence on today`s European character.
Belarus is interested in construction of the second line of the gas main Yamal-Europe, deputy energy minister Eduard Tovpenets told a news conference today.
Tel Aviv Police have requested the extradition to Israel of a Lithuanian citizen who allegedly trained and led a team of assassins from Belarus who tried murdering known Israeli underworld figures Yaacov Alperon and Shoni Gavrieli - father of MK Inbal Gavrieli.
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