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A criminal case against Leanid Svetsik was sent to court. Who and when would be judging a human rights defender from Viciebsk is yet to be decided. However, one of the charges against Svetsik was dropped during an official investigation and it gives hopes that a trial and sentence would be fair. A letter sent to the Supreme Court Chair-Justice of Republic of Belarus Valyantsin Sukala by the president of Belarusian Human Rights House Barys Zvozskau stressed these important points.

On 17 May Lithuania was electing a new president. This year young Belarusians, civil society activists and students of European Humanities University, were observing the Election Day.

A criminal case against Leanid Svetsik was sent to court. Who and when would be judging a human rights defender from Viciebsk is yet to be decided. However, one of the charges against Svetsik was dropped during an official investigation and it gives hopes that a trial and sentence would be fair. A letter sent to the Supreme Court Chair-Justice of Republic of Belarus Valyantsin Sukala by the president of Belarusian Human Rights House Barys Zvozskau stressed these important points.

“Freedom to political prisoners! Freedom to Autukhovich!” – Piotr Ruzau, a youth activist, wrote on a wall of a meat packing plant and was arrested for that by police on May 13.

The 6th session of Vilnius Media Seminar will focus on the role of new media in the 2009 election campaign to the European Parliament: «Local Media – Europe Wide».

10 years have passed since one of the leaders of Belarusian opposition Yury Zakharanka has mysteriously disappeared. This is how the whole sequence of similar disappearances of the people well-known in the country began. It is still unknown where those people are and what happened to them. The authorities answer the question “where?” with arrests and violence.

Belarusian HRH in Vilnius will host a solidarity concert of Belarusian and Lithuanian guitar singers.

The state of health of political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich worsened sharply and comes close to critical. The prisoner who went on hunger-strike has been joined by 29 democratic activists.

In spite of formal gender equality, considering women’s equal political rights is something a long way away for the Belarusian leadership. A round table discussion in HRH-Vilnius brings interesting facts about gender relations and attempts of power succession from father to son in the Republic of Belarus.