| | Belarus: Suppressing the last voices of peaceful dissent - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | On 7 September 2004 Valery Levonevsky, the president of the national strike committee of market traders, and Alyaksandr Vasiliev, the deputy president, were sentenced to two years in prison by the Leninsky District Court in Hrodna for publicly insulting the President under Article 368(2) of the Criminal Code. |
 | | The judge also decreed that computers and other equipment that had earlier been taken from Valery Levonevsky and Alyaksandr Vasiliev would be confiscated "in the interests of the state" and both men were ordered to pay fines of 643,278 Belarusian roubles (300 USD) each. |
 | | Pavel Mazheika, head of the Hrodna branch of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, was sentenced to seven days' detention on 1 November 2004 for a picket that he organized to protest against the conviction of Elena Rovbetskaia. |
| web.amnesty.org /library/index/engeur490042005 (7804 words) |