The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE January, 20, 2003 http://charter97.org/20040121_eng.htm --------------------------------------------------------- !!! WWW.CHARTER97.ORG/20040121_eng.htm --------------------------------------------------------- Families of Missing Politicians Prepared Request to KGB The relatives of the missing Belarusian oppositionists had to address to KGB because the investigation carried out by the prosecutor's office was ineffective. Five years passed since Yuri Zakharanka, Viktar Hanchar, Anatoliy Krasowsky had disappeared and four years since Zmitser Zavadsky is missing. --------------------------------------------------------- Belarusian Arms Delivery Discussed in Peru Again In Peru a legal process starts relating the case of former chief of special service Vladimiro Montesinos. Vladimiro Montesinos was detained in Venezuela on July 24, 2001, a year after he left his country. In 2000 representatives of Swiss Prosecutor's office stated that they arrested several accounts where the money illegally received by Montesinos for buying Russian weapons concentrated. Belarusian companies were among the suppliers as well. -------------------------------------------------------- Czech Prime Minister Met Belarusian Oppositionists Vladimir Spidla, Czech Prime Minister met deputies of Belarusian opposition faction "Respublika", Radio Praga informs. Belarusian politicians were invited to Prague by the Council on International Affairs. "We discussed situation in Belarus", said Vladimir Spidla said without giving details. Belarusian MPs also addressed the chairman of the lower chamber of Czech parliament Lubomir Zaoralek with a request to send as observers Czech deputies in Belarus during parliamentary elections this year. --------------------------------------------------------- Intimidation Of Journalist Unpunished Iryna Makovetskaya, journalist of the "Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta", was rejected a claim to bring an action on the fact of threats on the telephone on January 11, as said by Valery Stryhalyow, chief of the second police department of Railway district of Homiel. IN the end of last week police identified the anonymous person. It was a 25-year-old employee of TV and Radio Company of Homiel Vyachaslaw Bulkin. However, law-enforcing agencies found nothing wrong in his actions. --------------------------------------------------------- Jewish Leader Detained by Police Again On January 21 police detained the President of World Association of Belarusan Jewry (WABJ) Jakov Gutman by the Administration of President Lukashenka. He was detained in nine minutes after the beginning of a second picket against state anti-Semitism. This time the WABJ president wrote appeal to the highest officials on his back. Gutman was taken to police department of Lenin district of Minsk. --------------------------------------------------------- Prosecutor's Office Is ahead of Schedule Went Over the Quota with Bribe-Takers On January 20 Prosecutor General Viktar Sheiman gave a report to Alyaksandar Lukashenka about the situation with law and order and results of the fight against corruption in 2003 carried out in 2003, president's press service informs. The prosecutor General reported to the president that the prosecutor's office and other law-enforcing agencies had stirred up the fight against corruption and bribe-taking and abuse of office. In 2003 law-enforcers discovered by 20% more facts of bribery than in 2002. Against 597 people criminal proceedings were instituted for this crimes, AFN informs. --------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE December, 20, 2003 http://charter97.org/20040121_eng.htm -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=media.charter97&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com