An aircraft IL-76 of Belarusian company “Transaviaexport” was brought down while landing in Somalia, Interfax was informed in the department of aviation of communication and transport ministry.
Leaders of the strike committee, entrepreneurs Valeri Levaneusky and Alyaksandr Vasiliyau were released from the Grodno district department for internal affairs where they had been detained for three hours.
“To chose without choice. Belarus, March 2006” exhibition is to open under the support of former President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel and rector of the Karl University Vaclav Hampl in the Prague Karolinum 19 March.
The Netherlands was not represented at a UN conference on trafficking in women because Belarusian Interior Minister Uladzimir Navumaw took part in it, Ahmed Dadou, a spokesman for the Dutch foreign ministry, commented to BelaPAN.
Today, on March 12, a young activist Nasta Palazhanka has been summoned to Minsk city prosecutor’s office as a witness in a criminal case initiated against Young Front activists. As the human rights center Viasna has found out, an investigator of the prosecutor’s office Syarhei Hrakhouski gave Nasta Palazhanka serve a warrant that she is a suspect in a crime under Article 193 Part 1 (activities on behalf of an unregistered organization) as well.
Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich being on probation in Blon village of the Pukhovichi district for organization of the protest demonstration against falsified record of votes cast in election and referendum of 2004 was visited by the US Ambassador Karen Stewart, the Radio Svaboda reported. That was the first visit of head of the US Embassy paid to Mikalai Statkevich.Previously he was visited by ambassadors of Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, Slovakia as well as by head of the OSCE mission Oke Peterson.
The International Festival of documentaries on the subject of human rights protection was held in Prague from March 1 to 8. “Lesson of the Belarusian Language” documentary of Polish director Miroslaw Dembinski got two prizes at the festival. One of these prizes is annually awarded by a special jury under the honored leadership of Vaclav Havel to a film for its contribution to the human rights protection. The second prize for the best film in “Generation Next of the European Union” nomination is awarded by the students’ jury of the festival.
The Council of the European Union is to extend sanctions against Belarus, the press-service of the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana informs. “Sanctions against representatives of the Belarusian regime are to be extended,” a representative of Solana’s press-service told on Monday. As said by her, an official decision is to be adopted by the EU Council before the end of March.
More and more graffiti dedicated to future rally on Freedom Day are observed in Minsk. “Young Front” activists are making special stencils near houses informing people about the event on March 25 at 12 noon at Kalinouski Square.
Administration of Shklou prison has issued a fourth warning to Zmitser Dashkevich. This time he was reprimanded for reading after a retreat. The political prisoner told about that to his parents in a letter on March 5.
A former deputy of the “chamber of representatives” Syarhei Skrabets hasn’t been allowed to stage a meeting of solidarity with illegally convicted persons, Skrabets told to BelaPAN. The politician submitted a request to Minsk city executive committee to hold a meeting of solidarity with illegally convicted persons. The meeting had to be held on March 16 in Minsk in Bangalore Square.
Minsk City Executive committee has banned to give electricity to sound-amplifying equipment at the meeting of entrepreneurs held in Bangalore in Minsk today. Despite of the fact that the rally had been sanctioned by city authorities, the authorities have tried to foil preparation to the rally. Today in the morning leaders of the Strike Committee of the entrepreneurs Valery Levaneuski and Alyaksandr Vasilyeu were detained in Hrodna. Over the recent few days activists of entrepreneurs’ movement who had been distributing leaflets with a call to come to a meeting have been detained. It has been banned to distribute informational materials and make announcements about the rally.
Lawyer Igar Rinkevich met his client, former candidate for the presidency of Belarus Alyaksandr Kazulin in the Vitebsk prison #3 March 7. According to the lawyer, the regimen for political prisoner coming out of hunger strike was cancelled. It is to be mentioned that Kazulin had been on a hunger strike for 53 days. That was the way of appealing to the UN Security Council for discussion of the situation in Belarus.
Leaders of the Union of Right Forces (SPS, Russia) and the Musavat (Equality) Party (Azerbaijan) have accepted an invitation of the leader of the united democratic forces Alyaksandr Milinkevich to take part in the rally on March 25 in Minsk.
More than 100 people have taken part in the rally on March 8 in the center of Minsk. Participants demanded to cancel “political” articles of the Criminal Code and to release people convicted under these articles. People gathered at the crossing of Haradski Val and Nyamiha Streets and marched to Valadarski Street.
A leader of a well-known band “Tav. Mauser”, Jan Mauser is to take part in celebration of March 25. “I am sure that it is good to celebrate March 25. For me it is not just Independence Day, this day is the most important holiday for Belarus. Different mass rallies are held on that day, and I think this year the tradition wouldn’t be broken with,” the musician said.
Leaders of strike committee Valery Levaneuski and Alyaksandr Vasilyeu have been detained today morning on their way to Minsk, where a meeting of businessmen is planned. Levaneuski and Vasilyeu have been detained by traffic policemen when they left Hrodna. As the Charter’97 press-center has been informed by Valery Levaneuski, policemen stated that his car had been registered as stolen. Later this accusation was lifted, but the entrepreneurs were taken to the Interior Affairs department of Hrodna region.
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