Former candidate for presidency in Belarus, Alyaksandr Kazulin, during the session asked to put him out of the court room. “I have nothing to do in this court. I ask to take me out of the court. I am not interested in this farce,” Kazulin said.

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The police of Grodna assigned 26-year Paval Yaziesrki, one of the participants of the action of memory for missing journalist Zmitser Zavadski, to a mental house.

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Lately too many alarming signals are received from Belarus concerning the regime’s crackdown on freedom of speech. The country in the center of Europe is becoming “a very problematic region”, a representative of Berlin office of Reporters Without Borders Katrin Evers believes.

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Aliaxandar Kazulin claims he is not allowed to drink in court. Earlier he asked the judge to order the administration of the investigation custody to provide him with dry rations for the court session, and to allow his family to pass mineral water to him. Nevertheless, the ex-candidate for the presidential post reports that the head of the investigation custody barred him from buying water in the prison store, with no reasonable explanations given. A.Kazulin got a slice of bread and herring as the dry rations, but no water followed (it should be mentioned, however, that the temperature in Minsk was 30 degrees at the day time yesterday).

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In Vitsebsk a criminal action relating the events after creation of a new initiative called Bunt was initiated. The criminal case was filed against students of the European Humanities University, a 21-year-old Tatsyana Yalavaya and a 27-year-old Dzyanis Dzyanisau from Vitsebsk. According to the official police report, “those citizens have prepared, planned and carried out a group unsanctioned rally at the territory of Kastrychnitski district of Vitsebsk. The rally was aimed for gross violation of public order and foiling a culture mass events”.

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Having inspected “The Second National Channel” company, the public prosecutor’s office resolved to initiate a criminal case against its head R.Kisel. The Criminal code article of the case isn’t announced, but Mr.Kisel is known to be charged with financial malpractice.

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