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Thursday
Jan062011

Belarus Updates: More Searches and Interrogations

More searches and interrogations: activists Vitali Omelkovich and Dennis Balakirev, who monitored the elections, student Hamutova Hleb, who had been detained for 12 days after the Election Day protest on 19 December, Klimko Anton, Olga Zhuravleva, and Valery Matskevitch and Nikolai Demidenko of the Youth Front.

Also questioned: Roman Gritsevich, a member of the "Right Alliance" and representative of Presidential candidate Nikolai Statkevich.

Pavel Vinogradov of the "Speak the Truth" campaign has been detained.

The chairman of the Youth Front, Zmitser Dashkevich, and the head of the Minsk community organizations, Eduardo Lobavu, have been charged with offences.

Dunja Mijatovic, a representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, has urged the Belarussian authorities to end attacks on independent media and to releaseimprisoned journalists immediately.

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