Public Prosecutor’s Office for Miensk region issued official warnings to two citizens of Belarus and BAJ members Aksana and Aliaksandar Kalinkin for implementing “illegal journalist activity” on July 14, 2009. The media workers were accused of cooperation with a Russian “TV Channel of Good News” (“Telekanal blagikh novostei”) without credentials “in Miensk and Miensk region since 2007”.
Zhodzina city executive committee issued a decision that is not shown to interested parties. What is the essence of this “very non-secret” decision?
On 06.07.2009, according to the director of Gymnasium № 1, Mr. Henadz Korshun, it became known that on 23.06.2009 the city executive committee issued the decision № 928, according to which the director must close the only in Zhodzina gymnasium Belarusian-language education program for Yanka Lapitski. A Belarusian-speaking boy has studied under that program since 2002. The parents are invited to send their son in the Russian-language class because of the need for savings…
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Civil and political activists of Vitsebsk distributed the following statement concerning the criminal persecution of Vitsebsk human rights defender Leanid Svetsik. Expressing their protest against criminal and court persecution the activists demand an objective and all-sided trial of Leanid Svetsik’s case by a competent, independent and impartial court.
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