Andrey Zeltsar

On January 10, Leninski district court completed hearing the case of a 45-year-old resident of Mahiliou and passed a guilty verdict.

Maryia Uspenskaya, the widow of the man involved in the widely reported shootout in Minsk, spent three weeks in the Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Mental Health area in Minsk, the newspaper Nasha Niva reports with reference to the woman’s mother.

Most of the arrestees in the so called Zeltsar case are being held in Zhodzina prison Nr 8. Parcels containing food and essentials have not been handed over to them for more than 20 days, human rights centre Viasna reports.

The Russian media outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda is about to liquidate its representative office in Belarus.

Henadz Mazheika, a journalist of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, has not been released from the deteintion centre after spending 72 hours there. Last week he contributed to the article regarding the shootout in Minsk as well as the deaths of KGB officer Dzmitry Fedasyuk and IT specialist Andrey Zeltsar.

Aleh Belakoneu, a former head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus, ventured upon a controversial statement during Friday’s farewell ceremony for the killed KGB officer Dzmitry Fedasyuk. It was published by the Telegram channel Sputnik Belarus.