Belarus Updates: Security Forces Raid Opposition Offices and Homes

1210 GMT: Viasna has updated its list of opposition candidates and prominent political detainees facing charges of "organising riots" and "hooliganism":

1. Vladimir Neklyaev  - presidential candidate
2. Andrei Sannikov - presidential candidate 
3. Ryhor Kastusiou - presidential candidate
4. Aliaksandr Atroshchankau - Press-Secretary of Sannikov's election headquarters
5. Ales Mikhalevich - presidential candidate
6. Vital Rymasheuski - presidential candidate
7. Pavel Seviarynets - Rymasheuski's election agent
8. Dzmitry Bandarenka - coordinator of the "European Belarus" campaign
9. Irina Khalip - journalist, Andrei Sannikov's wife 
10. Natallia Radzina - journalist, editor of the Charter97 website
11. Anatol Liabedzka - UCP Chair
12. Anastasia Palazhanka - "Young Front" Vice-Chair 
13. Andrei Dzmitryeu - head of Vladimir Neklyaev's election headquarters
14. Tatsiana Skakal - Andrei Dzmitryeu's civil wife
15. Aliaksandr Fiaduta - political analyst, one of the coordinators of Vladimir Neklyaev's election headquarters
16. Mikalai Statkevich - presidential candidate
17. Aliaksandr Klaskouski - former police officer
18. Uladzimir Kobets - head of Anderj Sannikov's election HQ
19. Dmitry Us - presidential candidate
20. Siarhei Vazniak - Vladimir Neklyaev's election agent
21. Aliaksandr Arastovich - Mikalai Statkevich's election agent
22. Anatol Paulau, Yaraslau Ramanchuk's election agent
23. Siarhei Martsaleu, head of Mikalai Statkevich's election HQ  

0810 GMT: The human rights centre Viasna reports that Christmas Day did not stop Belarussian security services from their raids of the offices and apartments of civil and political activists.

The police and KGB searched the apartments and offices of the wife of former presidential candidate Ales Mikhalevich, the mother Charter ’97 editor Natallia Radzina, and activists Viachaslau Siuchyk, Aleh Vouchak, and Aliaksei Kaputski. They also raided the premises of the father of detained journalist Iryna Khalip, the wife of presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov.