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Mahiliou

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Authorities liquidate Mahiliou Human Rights Center
The center used to have official registration
16.02.2022
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Activists of Belarusian Social Democratic Party and Mahiliou Human Rights Center searched
A party telegram channel was hijacked
20.01.2022
Articles
2 years in jail: Mahiliou court delivers first sentence for web comments on killing KGB officer
On January 10, Leninski district court completed hearing the case of a 45-year-old resident of Mahiliou and passed a guilty verdict.
10.01.2022
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Police threaten activist to prosecute him for ‘treason’ over his applying for Poland’s humanitarian visa
On the back of the threats voiced by Belarusian security forces, Orsha resident Syarhei Myarnenka had to flee Belarus in fear of being prosecuted, human rights Viasna reports. Now the young man is safe and secure.
18.10.2021
Articles
‘Inciting hatred against police’: Two Mahiliou residents get 5 years in jail over posting ‘protest’ video
Mahiliou regional court has passed a guilty verdict in the case of Syarhei Prus and Dzmitry Bondarau who were tried over posting a ‘protest’ video on Instagram.
28.09.2021
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In photos: Biggest-ever Belarusian street protest took place year ago
The very same day the year before, the post-election protests against the Lukashenka regime gained momentum in the country.
16.08.2021
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KGB searches home of 6tv.by chief editor and orders site shutdown
Earlier, the editor-in-chief promised that the portal will not stop working
29.07.2021
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Closing down news site or facing criminal case: Mahiliou journalists placed in dilemma
The officers of the Main Department for Combatting Organised crime and Corruption (notorious GUBOPiK/GUBAZiK) set two choices before Zmitser Salauyou, the editor-in-chief of non-state media outlet 6tv.by.
19.07.2021
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Elderly man from Mahiliou sent to compulsory treatment for insulting Lukashenka
The trial was closed, the details of the accusation are unknown
23.06.2021
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Three Belarusian-speaking professors forced to quit jobs at Mahiliou university
A political purge is underway at Mahiliou State University: Belarusian-speaking teachers are being fired from the university named after the People’s Poet of the BSSR, the newspaper Nasha Niva reports.
11.06.2021
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Mahiliou: Two detained journos go on hunger strike
Mahiliou-based journalists Alyaksandr Burakou and Uladzimir Laptsevich, who are currently being held in the local pre-trial detention centre, have started hungerstriking, MayDay reports.
13.05.2021
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Political prisoner Iryna Shchasnaya to stand closed trial
Iryna is in the Mahiliou detention center
08.05.2021
News
Sevyarynets' trial will be closed, even to relatives
Pavel Sevyarynets has been behind bars since June 2020. Yauhen Afnahel, Pavel Yukhnevich, Dzmitry Kazlou, Maksim Vinyarski and Andrei Voynich will be tried together with him. They are all accused of rioting.
03.05.2021