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Fourteen organisations call for the immediate and unconditional Andrei Aliaksandrau
July 05, 2021
DW Akademie deeply concerned that trainer Andrei Aliaksandrau now faces up to 15 years in prison
July 05, 2021
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
July 02, 2021
Journalist Andrej Aliaksandraŭ charged with high treason
June 30, 2021
Roman Protasevich has moved to house arrest
A Belarusian dissident who was taken off a Ryanair jet forced to land in Minsk has been transferred to house arrest, his father has told the BBC.
June 25, 2021
OSCE Media Freedom Representative warns of further serious restrictions on freedom of expression in recently adopted Belarusian laws
VIENNA, 24 June 2021 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, today stated that the recently adopted laws in Belarus seriously contradict international human rights standards on freedom of expression and freedom of the media, including the OSCE commitments of the country.
June 24, 2021
Translator Volha Kalatskaya suspected under Article 342, again
June 23, 2021
BAJ to undergo examination by Ministry of Justice. Thousands of documents are to be presented in just 2 days
June 21, 2021
Political prisoner Andrzej Paczobut has covid, needs urgent hospital care
June 17, 2021
BAJ pleades with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Health Care, Department of Corrections for hospitalizing Andrzej Paczobut
June 17, 2021
MFA brings Raman Pratasevich to briefing. He states he is not betraying anyone “but just cooperating with investigation”
At the beginning of the briefing, it was stated that "Mr. Pratasevich wanted to talk to the media, and we found a legal way to do that." Recalled, Raman is being held in jail.
June 14, 2021
Joint call to make press freedom a cornerstone of all demands towards Belarus
The hijacking of a plane and kidnapping of editor and blogger Raman Pratasevich is viewed by the free expression, press freedom and journalists’ community as the outrageous climax of a broader campaign against media freedom in Belarus that drastically intensified after the August 2020 election. Free Press Unlimited co-wrote a joint call to make respect for press freedom a cornerstone of all demands towards Belarus.
June 10, 2021
OSCE PA human rights leaders raise alarms over new legislation on mass events and media in Belarus
June 04, 2021
Sports journalists Ivulin, Pisarenka arrested in Minsk
June 04, 2021
Popular TV personality Dzianis Dudzinski and his wife questioned by financial police
Minsk, 3 June. Popular TV host, actor and singer Dzianis Dudzinski and his wife, Kaciaryna Rajeckaja, were questioned by officers of the State Control Committee’s Department for Financial Investigations on Wednesday.
June 03, 2021
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