BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

27 September 2005

Minsk court seizes independent weekly's assets

After rejecting the latest of many of appeals by Narodnaya Volya, the Leninsky district court in Minsk on 20 September seized the weekly's assets and blocked its bank accounts to enable payment of 38,000 euros in libel damages that it was previously ordered to pay to Syarhey Haidukevich, a parliamentary representative of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Belarus' main independent newspaper, Narodnaya Volya had also appealed to the supreme court but the district court decided it did not need to wait for its ruling.

Source:

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=13196

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