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DW Akademie deeply concerned that trainer Andrei Aliaksandrau now faces up to 15 years in prison
Horrible testimony of political prisoner Dziadok in court: smothered with a pillow to give out passwords
on July 1, the Minsk city court continued to hear the case of Mikalai Dziadok. He is charged under three articles of the Criminal Code but pleads not guilty. Today Dziadok testified in court.
Mikola Dziadok is an author in Novy Chas, blogger, and activist of the anarchist movement. Dziadok was detained on the night of November 11, 2020 by the officers of GUBOPiK (Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption) and Interior Ministry in a country house in the town of Sasnovy.
The following charges were pressed against him:
Article 342 of the Criminal Code — Organizing and preparing activities that breach public order or active participation in them;
Article 361 of the Criminal Code — calling to actions aimed at causing damage to the national security of Belarus;
and Article 295 of the Criminal Code — illegal actions in relation to firearms, ammunition and explosives
Journalist Andrej Aliaksandraŭ charged with high treason
Roman Protasevich has moved to house arrest
OSCE Media Freedom Representative warns of further serious restrictions on freedom of expression in recently adopted Belarusian laws
Translator Volha Kalatskaya suspected under Article 342, again
BAJ to undergo examination by Ministry of Justice. Thousands of documents are to be presented in just 2 days
The Ministry of Justice has started a monitoring of the activities of the Belarusian Association of Journalists. The letter that BAJ received on Monday morning requires the NGO to present thousands of papers dated since January 1, 2018 to the Ministry's Non-profit organizations department.
When we speak of thousands of documents, we really mean it.
Political prisoner Andrzej Paczobut has covid, needs urgent hospital care
BAJ pleades with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Health Care, Department of Corrections for hospitalizing Andrzej Paczobut
MFA brings Raman Pratasevich to briefing. He states he is not betraying anyone “but just cooperating with investigation”
Joint call to make press freedom a cornerstone of all demands towards Belarus
OSCE PA human rights leaders raise alarms over new legislation on mass events and media in Belarus
Sports journalists Ivulin, Pisarenka arrested in Minsk
Minsk, 3 June. Sports journalists Aliaksandr Ivulin and Jaraslaŭ Pisarenka were arrested in Minsk on Thursday, according to media reports.
Popular TV personality Dzianis Dudzinski and his wife questioned by financial police
Medicines not given to jailed Polish activist Andrzej Poczobut after alleged refusal to leave country
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