Former minister and diplomat Mikhail Marynich expressed gratitude to the people who take part in the Day of Belarusian Solidarity. As said by him, it is really a great support for political prisoners and those who fight for freedom and democracy in Belarus. The Charter’97 press center was told about that by the son of Mikhail Marynich, the leader of the civil initiative “Freedom to Political Prisoners” Pavel Marynich, who had a meeting with his father in Minsk colony on November 28.
On November 28 the civil party “Pora” expressed deep concern over the fact that the illegitimate parliament of Belarus adopted amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Penal Procedure, which envisages criminal liability for taking part in the work of public associations and political parties. “Pora” believes that the policy of appeasement and the “culture of relations”, about which they talk in Ukraine, would not work with the dictator, which understands only the language of power and international pressure, and proposes to increase international pressure on Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime to the extent of introduction of international embargo.
Prominent Belarusian human rights activists have come out against Aleksandr Lukashenko`s attempt to make political opposition punishable under criminal law and called on the Belarusian leader to withdraw his "politically motivated and repressive" bill against activities deemed a public security threat, and on the Belarusian National Assembly to vote it down.
The Belarusian Presidential Administration`s property management department on November 25 rejected an offer by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC) to settle out of court a dispute over foreign financial aid.
The Minsk District Prosecutor`s Office has decided not to institute criminal proceedings in connection with the mysterious death of journalist Vasil Hrodnikaw in the town of Zaslawye [near Minsk].
The arrested entrepreneur Mikalay Autukhovich was examined by the council of physicians. They recognized that his state of health after 46 days of hunger strike is grave. They noted that in case he would not agree to stop the hunger strike and take a dropper, he should be hospitalized, the Radio Svaboda informs.
The Students’ Committee of the Belarusian State Economic University has decided to start daily 30-minute strikes. The Rector of the BSEU signed an order about expulsion of Tatsyana Khoma two days after she was elected to the Executive Committee of the ESIB - the National Unions of Students in Europe.
Vitsebsk executive committee has made a decision not to award Uladizmir Karatkevich literary prize this year. The ceremony traditionally took place on birthday of the famous Belarusian writer. The reasons for that deserve special attention: as announced by the authorities, this time worthy authors were failing. And in general, it would be enough to award the prize once in five years, the “BDG. Delovaya Gazeta” informs.
On November 26 Homel policemen detained Vyachaslau Andreeu from the Vittsebsk-based initiative group of Amnesty International, and Syarhei Razumau from Homel group of AI. The human rights watchdogs have been taken part in the work of the steering committee of the civil initiative the Belarusian organization of Amnesty International.
This is the information provided to Radio Liberty by the lawyer Alieh Dubaviets, who still deals with the case of the renowned opposition politician, the former deputy and leader of the group Respublika. According to the lawyer, the case will be with the investigator until January 3, 2006.
According to the information provided by the current president of ESIB Vania Ivoshavich to studenty.by: "The Union of National Students` Associations of Europe ESIB contacted its partner the European Association of Universities, of which Belarusian State Economic University is a member. The issue of reviewing the membership of this university in this European organization is now being considered. Also, ESIB calls on all foreign partners of BSEU to suspend all contacts with this university.
The procurator’s office of Barysau is to give a “legal evaluation” of several articles published in the newspaper Borisovskiye novosti (issues 29-31 of 2005) and “take an appropriate decision regarding procurator’s reaction”. An appropriate instruction arrived from the procurator`s office of Minsk Oblast, which had in turn received a commission from the Procurator`s Office of Belarus (the civil rights and liberties department). This is the information provided to the Belarusian Association of Journalists by the senior editor of the publication Anatol Bukas on November 21.
Belarus, its leaders criticised by Washington and the European Union, is not getting enough Western help to curb the movement into the EU of migrants who could pose a terrorist threat, the head of its the security service said.
On November 28 family members of a political prisoner Mikhail Marynich visited him in the colony. Two weeks ago doctors from a special medical board of the health Ministry checked his health and was recognized a disabled person of the second category. However, according to the family, former Minister and Ambassador as before has a strong spirit and clear intellect.
A political prisoner, the leader of the All-nation Strike Committee of Vendors Valery Levaneuski continues hunger strike in Ivatsevichy colony for 16th day. Lawyer Alyaksandr Byarylau visited Levaneuski on November 28. “The political prisoner continues hunger strike and believes that the administration of the colony exerts pressure on him. His demands are not listened to, all his personal belongings were seized, together with the documents on his criminal case,” the lawyer said to the Radio Svaboda.
Nicolas Kalinin, a Roma ctivist and the Head of the Belarusian Roma Lawyers Group and chairman of the Belarus Roma Organization Ekhipe (Unity) informed Dzeno Association about a biased documentary movie entitled "Without a limitation period: The Roma Camp is going to Prison" that was broadcasted on a Belarusian TV Channel ONT this month.
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