Belarus Free Theatre

[Curt F. Woolhiser]

In connection with the news of the arrest of members of the Minsk-based Belarus
Free Theatre, the following reports might be of interest to SEELANGS
subscribers:

Report (in Belarusian) about the Free Theatre:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6KXekbbbc&feature=related

>From Al-Jazeera’s English-language service:

Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_b1zRxinmA&feature=related
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDvwzMnfl2w&feature=channel


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Curt Woolhiser
Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
Harvard University
12 Quincy St., Barker Center
Cambridge, MA 02138-3879 USA
Tel. (617) 495-3528
Fax (617) 496-4466
email: cwoolhis at fas.harvard.edu
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Quoting Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>:

> In reply to Alina's message, and especially for anyone in London!
>
> > R.
> >
> >
> > Index on Censorship protest against mass arrests in Belarus - tomorrow
> >
> > Belarus Free Theatre cast members arrested, severely beaten, missing
> >
> > Friends detained by KGB
> >
> > Worries over potential arrest warrant for co-founder of Belarus Free
> Theatre
> >
> > Index on Censorship is organising a protest outside the Belarusian embassy
> in London to protest against the mass arrest of civil society activists in
> Belarus on 19 December.
> >
> > On Tuesday 21 December at 6pm, outside the embassy, people will gather to
> send a clear message to the Belarusian government that its infringement of
> free expression is unacceptable.
> >
> > Allegations have been made of torture. People are still missing and
> unaccounted for. Trials have already begun for hundreds of Belarusians
> arrested during the protests. Several opposition leaders have been attacked.
> The Editor of independent news website Charter97, Natalia Radzina, was badly
> beaten and is now in jail. And members of the Belarus Free Theatre have been
> arrested.
> >
> > Please join us at the embassy: 6 Kensington Ct, London W8 5DL
> >
> > For more details call Index on Censorship on 0207 324 2522 or email:
> mike at indexoncensorship.org
> >
> >
> >
>
> On 21 Dec 2010, at 05:54, Alina Wyman wrote:
>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > I would like to turn your attention to yet another instance of
> > Lukashenko's brutality against the Belarusian people. Yesterday
> presidential
> > candidate Uladzimer Niakliaeu was attacked and beaten on the head by
> > Lukashenko's forces as he was making his way to the Kastrychnitskaya Square
> > to protest the falsifications of Belarusian elections. Three other
> > presidential candidates, Andrey Sannikau, Ryhor Kastusyou and Vital'
> > Rymasheuski, were beaten and arrested. Candidate Mikola Statkevich was
> > arrested. Uladzimer Niakliaeu was later obducted from the intensive care
> > unit, where he was treated for head trauma, and taken to prison. Countless
> > men and women were brutally beaten, as more than twenty thousand protested
> > the massive falsifications of Belarusian elections in Minsk. Among those
> > beaten were journalists Irina Khalip ("Novaya Gaseta") and Radina ("Charter
> > 97"). The list goes on...
> >
> > Here are some videos featuring yesterday's events:
> >
> >
> >>  Ploshcha 2010:
> >>> http://www.svaboda.org/content/article/2252428.html
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >> The beating of Uladzimer Niakliaeu:
> >>
> >>
>
http://udf.by/news/politic/36725-izbienie-neklyaeva-slabnervnym-luchshe-ne-smotret-video.html
> >>
> >
> > Volha Niakliaeva about the abduction of her husband from the intensive care
> > unit:
> > http://www.svaboda.org/content/article/2253381.html
> >
> > With regards to the list,
> >
> > Alina Wyman
> >
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> Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD
>
> tel. +44 207 603 3862
>
>
>
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