Review of post-election situation in Belarus (28 March – 3 April)

Newsletter No. 2
April 5, 2011

In the beginning of the week, several people detained during the street actions of 25 March, Freedom Day, were punished with administrative arrest: Mikola Dzemidzenka, Iryna Hubskaya, Viktar Ivashekvich, Zmitser Salauyou and journalist Uladzimir Laptsevich. The criminal persecution in connection with the protest rally of 19 December 2010 continued as well. One of its participants, 20-year-old Mikita Likhavid was sentenced to 3.5 years of medium-security colony. The cases of 7 more accused of participation in the “mass riot” were passed to court, while some other accused started studying the materials of their cases. One of them, editor of the Charter’97 website Natallia Radzina, left Belarus. On 30 March the preliminary investigation department of the Minsk City Executive Committee presented charges under Article 342, part 1 (organization and preparation of activities that grossly violate the public order, or participation in such actions) to Andrei Dzmitryieu, Aliaksandr Fiaduta, Uladzimir Niakliayeu, Nasta Palazhanka, Vital Rymasheuski, Siarhei Vazniak. There is no progress concerning the freedom of expression, either – the warning to the private socio-political newspaper Narodnaya Volia is still in force, and the Avtoradio FM radio station remains closed, as the Supreme Economical Court reversed its earlier verdict in its favor.

See the full report here: http://www.spring96.org/en/news/42414

13. April 2011 in Politik und Gesellschaft

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