On behalf of her husband, she asks that at least one of the member states of the G8 raises the issue of Belarus in the UN Security Council

A number of well-known Belarusian cultural figures, human rights activists and opposition politicians have called on President Viktor Yushchenko to defend civic society and democratic institutions in Belarus

"93.5% voted for President Lukashenko. They say that that’s not a European showing. We made it 86% .."

Since 18 November "Memorial" has been subjected to a DoS attack which has virtually blocked all access to their sites. The attack, judging by messages which have appeared on the Internet, has been organized by one of the fascist groups.

The journalist who insists he was only expressing his own views has been sentenced for “inciting religious enmity and public calls to commit extremist actions”

The judge stated that the prosecution charges did not specify the aims and motives of the defendant’s actions, nor the words allegedly used to carry out these intentions making it impossible to issue a lawful and well-founded judgment .

Support Belarusian political prisoners – Please light your candles, but also contact your governments, insist that they place pressure on the Belarusian regime.

It told the leader of the Civic Assistance Committee whose name features on the list of “enemies of the nation” that neither the list nor the calls to deal with those on it constituted grounds for launching a criminal investigation

15 November 2006 On the fortieth day in memory of journalist and human rights defender, Anna Politkovskaya

The court ordered the Prosecutor General to review the application to declare those murdered victims of political repression

Belarus and Uzbekistan have called on the UN to stop passing resolutions which condemn human rights abuse in particular countries

He joins the large number of opponents of the present dictatorship in Belarus who are serving penal sentences for their convictions

The Belarusian Supreme Court is again checking the activities of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, the only human rights organization which is still functioning in the country

The harsh sentence evoked outrage, and more than three hundred people stood outside the court chanting “Freedom for Dashkevich!”

The German Ambassador expressed consternation at the trial behind closed doors of Zmiter Dashkevich: "Why have they not learned from the lessons of Stalinism and the terror trials, which we had in Germany?”

Those attending the meeting in Moscow on 30 October held banners reading We won’t let Russia be returned to 1937!”, “Comrade Chekists, you’re getting up to your old ways”, as well as pictures of present political prisoners

The leader of the Belarusian organization “Youth Front” Zmiter Dashkevich was arrested in September for “activities on behalf of an unregistered organization”

Rustam Muminov was deported from Russia on 24 October after the European Court of Human Rights had called for the deportation procedure to be halted

In the light of the mounting political repression in Russia, the author believes that this 30 October 2006 should be considered not only a Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Political Repression in the past, but a Day of Protest against new repression – present and future.

In 1974 30 October was designated the Day of the Political Prisoner in the USSR. This was a decision taken by prisoners of the Soviet political camps themselves. … People deprived of their freedom because of their convictions began a struggle for your freedom and ours, for human dignity. – A call from Russian human rights groups to oppose the curbing of freedom in Russia