The forth day of the loud political trial - the trial of 14, ended with the last statements of the accused. After that judge Alena Illina suspended the trial. A judgement will be delivered at 11am 22 April in the
The prosecutor's office of Minsk considers searches in the apartments of independent journalists on March 27 and 28 "have taken place reasonably and in correspondence to the law". It has been stated in the letter from the prosecutor's office received
Lawyers have made statements in the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk, where the trial over participants of the protest rally of market vendors is taking place. Lawyers Alyaksandr Halieu, Svyatlana Harbatok and Tamara Sidarenka have made statements.
The reality is that we don't have independent court today. I think everything is already solved. Both prosecutor and judge execute order of the authorities," Alyaksandr Makaeu, one of the entrepreneurs' leaders, said to the Charter'97 press center commenting on
Charnobyl Way rally organisers have met today with representatives of the authorities in the Minsk city executive committee concerning the rally on 26 April, dedicated to anniversary of the accident on the Charnobyl nuclear plant.
Struggle against satellite antennas continues in Minsk. More and more Minsk dwellers are given orders to register dishes in the local bodies of authority. Otherwise they are threatened with court and removing of antennas. Minsk dwellers have sent to the
Prosecutor demands 2 years of imprisonment for Andrei Kim and different terms of restriction of liberty, or so called "Khimia," for other accused people in the trial of 14.
Forth trial session in the criminal case against youth activists, accused of participation in the entrepreneurs' rally on 10 January takes place today.
Pishchalauski Сastle in Valadarski Street in Minsk, where a pre-trial detention center is situated, is crumbling. One of these days a part of the building where among other offenders political prisoners are kept, has collapsed.
On April 22 at 2 p.m. a trial over the co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democratic party's initiative group Paval Sevyarynets will start in the court of Maskouski district of Minsk.
Actions demanding to release political prisoners were held by activists of the civil campaign "European Belarus" in Kastrychnitski and Maskouski districts of Minsk on 20 April.
The chairman of the organisation not recognized by the regime, the Union of Poles in Belarus, Andzelika Borys is to pay a fine of $250. Besides, she cannot leave Belarus.
The former political prisoner, Doctor of Medicine Yury Bandazheuski, is set to change the direction of financial flows of European aid to Belarus for overcoming aftermaths of Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, and has received support of European deputies in
It's a usual tactics of the regime, to imprison the most active and courageous youth activists of the country. It is done firstly for neutralization of those people. Secondly, it is done for intimidation of the Belarusians in the run-up
