CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE
January, 19, 2003
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BELARUSIAN TRACE OF HILD ORN SELLERS
12:15 19/01/2004, Anton Melnichuk

Niki was a regular a regular school-girl from the 6th form of St. Petersburg
school who liked classic music. But everything changed when she and her elder
sister started posing naked for web-sites. "My mother was on the leave and we
went to resort. Accidentally she came across nudist beach. I met an artist there
and started posing for his paintings", -- tells Nadya: "Soon I started to work
as model for web-sites". Nadya was 14, Niki was only 11 This story has been
written by media-portal "Red Herring" recently. It is interesting that Belarusian
citizens can be related to this story of two sisters from St. Petersburg. Belarusian
citizens play very important role in distributing Child Porn (CP) in global network.
On Friday, 16 of January it was announced about arrest of one of Minsk centered
group distributing Child porn through the Internet. But this group is far from
been the only in this dirty business.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/19/cp

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TWO "ZUBR" ACTIVISTS ARRESTED IN MINSK
12:54 19/01/2004

Two "Zubr" activists were detained on 16 of January in Minsk.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/19/zubr

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AKSANA NOVIKAVA FINED
12:11 19/01/2004

On January 16 Aksana Novikava, sentenced in April 2003 to a suspended term in
a criminal case for insult of Alyaksandar Lukashenka, was fined 250 basic values,
human rights center "Viasna" informs.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/19/aknovikova

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PART OF "MESTNAYA GAZETA" PRESSRUN CONFISCATED
12:01 19/01/2004

On January 16 tax police confiscated rest of newspapers and money from private
vendors of independent newspaper "Mestnaya Gazeta".
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/19/mgazeta

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TRIAL OVER AKSANA NOVIKAVA CANCELLED
11:38 19/01/2004

On January 16 secretary of the court of the Frunze district court of Minsk called
Aksna Novikava and said that because on January 12 amnesty was announced, the
criminal case of Aksana Novikava was directed to the Committee on execution of
sentences for consideration whether the case could be to be included in the amnesty,
the human rights center "Viasna" informs. 
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/19/novikova

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ANOTHER INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER DISAPPEAR IN BELARUS
11:27 19/01/2004

On January 16 in Svetlahorsk the last issue of the independent newspaper "Region-vesti"
was published. It was the forth issue in a row which contained only a TV channels
program in it. But even in this form the subscribers were not able to receive
it. Svetlahorsk branch of the Homiel regional post office informed the editorial
office of the independent newspaper that the contract for delivery of it is unilaterally
cancelled.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/19/pressa

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CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE
December, 19, 2003
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