First monitoring report on post-election trials

Newsletter No. 1
March 16, 2011

Weekly review of post-election situation in Belarus (7-13 March)

On 9 March the assistant to the Representative of the International Observation Mission of the Committee on International Control over the Situation with Human Rights in Belarus, citizen of the Ukraine Maxim Kitsyuk was denied entry to the territory of the Republic of Belarus while crossing the border by train Kyiv - Minsk.

On 10 March two verdicts on the 19 December "mass riot" criminal case were announced: Liubou Siamakhina, Judge of the Maskouski District Court of Minsk punished the citizens of the Russian Federation Artyom Breus and Ivan Gaponov with fines equal to $3,470, and Alena Rudnitskaya, Judge of the same court, sentenced Dzmitry Miadzvedz to three years of personal restraint without direction to an open penitentiary institution. On 12 March the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus dismissed the appeal of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee against the warning issued to it by the Ministry of Justice on 12 January. A Young Front activist Ales Lukashou was expelled from the second year at of the physical faculty of the Belarusian State University, allegedly for the failure to pass some exams.

See the full report here: http://www.spring96.org/en/news/41780 .