Archive for October, 2005

. Valiery Lievanieuski (Valery Levaneuski) was taken from Ivatsevichy prison to the Republican prison hospital, said Radio Liberty. According to the prisoner’s relations, the heart problems got worse after Lievanieuski had been on hunger-strikes to protest against the violation of his rights. According to Lievanieuski’s son Uladzimier, “he first started to have problems with the heart and back, but he does not know why. He decided to undergo treatment and get a medical checkup at the same time”. Read more »

On October, 15th, 2005 political prisoner Valery Levaneuski has been directed from the Ivatsevichi’s colony №22 to Republican prison hospital. In the letters the leader of entrepreneurs writes that recently sharp pains in the field of a back and heart have started to disturb him. Read more »

Political prisoner Valery Levaneuski has sent from a colony the letter in which answers questions of http://www.svaboda.org on the initiatives directed on improvement of conditions in the Ivatsevichi’s colony, including working conditions of employees of a colony. Read more »

Belarusian authorities have stroke the hardest blow on independent press so far. The only independent daily, Narodnaia Volia, faces the danger of disappearance. On 30 September, in his speech to the Defense Soviet, Aliaksandr Lukashenka stated it was necessary to protect Belarusian society from foreign informational expansion and “induction of instability by anti-Belarusian information resources”. Read more »

The leader of the Hrodna businessmen Valiery Lievanieuski (Valery Levaneuski) who is now serving a sentence in Ivatsevichy Prison asks the administration to open a chamber for believers of various denominations. Uladzimir Levanieuski, the prisoner`s son, told Radio Liberty about this initiative of his father. According to Valiery Lievanieuski, most of the prisoners are atheists and those who believe in God are mostly Orthodox. However, there are quite a few Catholics, Protestants and representatives of other denominations. Valiery Lievanieuski himself is Catholic. The prisoner`s son reminded that the father never was a staunch believer, however he went to church regularly. Read more »

The leader of National Strike Committee of entrepreneurs of Belarus, the participant of Council of civil initiatives «Free Belarus» Valery Levaneuski who serves time in colony-22, tries to achieve granting to it of the labour contract. Read more »