Belarus: KGB issues warrant for Nikolai Khalezin
Nikolai Khalezin in hiding after the KGB issue arrest warrant for the co-founder of the Belarus Free Theatre. Mike Harris reports
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Belarus: Artists, activists facing detention and trial
Entire staff of Charter97 held by KGB / Index learns of prison abuse
Update:
• Entire Charter97 staff arrested
• Scores of activists beaten, held by KGB
• Phones of opposition activists out of service
• Four opposition presidential candidates currently held by police
• Criminal charges being drawn up
• Free Theatre’s Natalia Koliada released, fined
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Belarussian presidential elections: Thousands protest
– Two opposition leaders beaten
– Tens of thousands gather in Minsk’s Independence Square
– Lukashenko claims 79 per cent of poll
– Index on Censorship told of 31 detentions prior to demonstrations
Belarus Free Theatre founders arrested
Up to 600 protestors detained
As the world’s attention turns to Europe’s last dictatorship, Index’s Mike Harris explains the bakground to today’s demonstrations
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PAST EVENT: Index on Censorship and the Young Vic present “Belarus: Zone of Silence”
Jude Law, Ian McKellen and Samuel West take to the stage in support of Belarus Free Theatre
5 December 2010
“When people are being kidnapped and killed, then you have to take action to change things in your country” (Natalia Koliada, co-founder of Belarus Free Theatre).
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