RFE/RL WATCHDOG
12/22/2011 8:47:33 PM
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 Jailed Belarus Activist Tries Suicide Inmates at the labor camp say the incident took place on December 11, after Mikalay Autukhovich was released from solitary confinement and then told that he would be transferred to another brigade. More  Jailed Kyrgyz Rights Activist To Appeal A lawyer for jailed Kyrgyz human rights activist Azimjan Askarov says he plans to take his case to international courts after the Kyrgyz Supreme Court upheld his client's life sentence on December 20. More  Ailing Havel Issued Belarus Appeal In one of his last public messages before his death on December 18, longtime dissident writer and former Czech President Vaclav Havel expressed solidarity with political prisoners in Belarus. More A gunman has shot dead a prominent journalist in Daghestan, the latest murder of a leading public figure in the troubled Russian Caucasus region.More  Protests Held For Kyrgyz Inmates Some 30 relatives of Kyrgyz inmates on hunger strike picketed a pretrial detention center in Bishkek on December 15 to demand the prisoners' demands be met, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. More  Belarus Ex-Candidate Can't See Lawyer Human rights activist Paval Levinau told RFE/RL that when he asked warden Vital Ahnistykau at the Vitsebsk labor camp why jailed former presidential candidate Andrey Sannikau's lawyer was unable to see his client, Ahnistykau said Sannikau wrote a letter to the labor camp's administration when he arrived at the penitentiary stating that his life is under threat. More |
