Aleh Byabenin
The founder and editor of charter97.org website Aleh Byabenin was found hanged on September 3 in his summer house outside Minsk. Law-enforcing agencies hastily stated that it had been suicide. However Aleh Byabenin’s death raises many questions. Forensic experts are offering different dates of the journalist’s death. Aleh Byabenin had not left any suicide note. Friends and colleagues of the journalist state that there were marks of violence on his body. Aleh Byabenin was a key member in the team of the oppositional presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov
Topic: Aleh Byabenin
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8:03 Today would have marked Aleh Byabenin's 39th birthday 53
Founder of charter97.org website Aleh Byabenin was born on this day.
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14:10 Aleg Biabienin’s black portrait (Photo, video) 14
Black faces on the background of a rather colorful life. These are the black portraits of Paul Piercy.
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9:30 Today would have marked Aleh Byabenin's 38th birthday 33
Founder of charter97.org website Aleh Byabenin was born on this day.
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13:00 Committee to Protect Journalists: We call for an independent investigation of Aleh Byabenin’s case 18
The Committee to Protect Journalists has many questions to the Belarusian authorities.
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11:39 Who gains from Aleh Byabenin’s death? 8
The Prosecutor’s office of Minsk region refused to launch a probe into the death of Aleh Byabenin.
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11:31 We’ll find out truth about Aleh Byabenin’s death after change of power 11
The Prosecutor’s office stops “examination” on the fact of the death of Aleh Byabenin, a Belarusian journalist.
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17:09 Aleh Vouchak: Byabenin’s case cannot be solved without real investigation 7
The Prosecutor General must open a criminal case and investigate all details of the death of the journalist, the human rights activist stated.
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14:45 Zmitser Bandarenka: “OSCE expert” will become common noun in Belarus soon 20
A conclusion could not be made only on the ground of papers offered by law-enforcing agencies of the totalitarian state.
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12:29 OSCE experts fail to objectively investigate case of Byabenin 30
The OSCE experts gave their assessment only on the basis of the “inquiry” performed by the authorities.
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12:24 Demands to carry out independent investigation of Aleh Byabenin’s death in Minsk (Photo) 3
A street action under this slogan was held in Minsk on the Day of Belarusian Solidarity.
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17:33 Lukashenka about Byabenin’s case: It is a criminal act 91
Speaking about the death of a journalist Aleh Byabenin, the Belarusian ruler has made a sensational statement.
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10:02 Prosecutors extend inquiry into Aleh Byabenin’s case 3
Prosecutors intend to expand the inquiry in the death of Belarusian journalist Aleh Byabenin for a month.
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9:43 Uladzimir Baradach: Results of OSCE experts’ work must be presented to public 5
The former commander of the special task force brigade comments on the visit of the OSCE experts to Minsk related to Aleh Byabenin’s case.
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11:00 Experts went, but questions remain 17
The OSCE criminalists finished familiarizing with the materials of prosecutor’s inquiry into the death of journalist Aleh Byabenin.
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16:40 OSCE experts met with friends and colleagues of journalist Aleh Byabenin 9
Friends and colleagues of Aleh Byabenin do not believe the official story of the journalist’s death.
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17:56 Dunja Mijatovic met Belarusian journalists who are under investigation 11
Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has met with journalists Natallia Radzina, Iryna Khalip, Maryna Koktysh and Svyatlana Kalinkina.
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9:45 OSCE experts arrive to Minsk tomorrow 5
OSCE forensics experts will arrive to Belarus on October 26 for studying the materials of the inquiry by the public prosecutor into the death of Belarusian opposition journalist and human rights activist Aleh Byabenin (Oleg Bebenin).
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15:58 Andrei Sannikov’s press-secretary summoned to prosecutor’s office after “Godbatka” 29
Alyaksandr Atroshchankau, a press-secretary of the presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, had been summoned to appear and interrogated in the prosecutor’s office of Minsk region on Monday.
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9:14 Lukashenka smiling 25
European specialists are to come to Minsk to take part in examination of the body of the journalist.
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8:50 Never Forget 76
Today is the 40th day after the death of he founder and editor of charter97.org website Aleh Byabenin (Oleg Bebenin).
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17:05 Godbatka-4: The last autumn (Video) 233
The 4th part of the sensational film about Lukashenka has been screened by NTV channel, Russia.
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12:33 Prosecutor’s inquiry into death of Aleh Byabenin extended until November 3 7
As reported by the prosecutor’s office, only a part of the comprehensive examination of the corpse of the journalists has been completed.
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14:05 Lukashenka is even afraid of the dead Aleh Byabenin 53
At the conference for Russian Mass Media the dictator mentioned a journalist Aleh Byabenin and the site charter97.org.
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16:51 Sannikov interrogated in prosecutor’s office again 10
The leader of “European Belarus” has been questioned in the prosecutor’s office of Minsk region in the case of Aleh Byabenin’s death.
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17:44 Belarusian regime was criticized at the UN 13
Every day at the session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
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16:40 OSCE to send 2 expert criminologists for investigating causes of Aleh Byabenin’s death 9
The Organization of Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) replied in the positive to the address of Belarusian authorities with a request to send two expert criminologists to Minsk.
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17:47 OSCE: Investigation of Zavadski and Byabenin’s cases is in the interests of Belarusian authorities
According to OSCE representatives, the reason of the assassinations and disappearances are professional activities.
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17:04 Troublesome issues
Each new policemen’ step in investigating the death of the Belarusian journalist Oleg Bebenin raises new questions that hang in the air and remain unanswered.
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10:20 Lower than the lowest border 22
… The website naviny.by has recently published a material by the site’s regular author Alyaksandr Zimouski, where the main character is late Aleh Byabenin.
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8:54 Andrei Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded in Oslo (Photo) 4
The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been awarded in Oslo. The prize was founded by one of the most influential human rights organizations of the world, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.
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18:18 Norwegian Helsinki Committee: “Belarusian authorities responsible for security of journalists” 11
Human rights activists demand from the Belarusian authorities to guarantee security of Belarusian oppositional journalists.
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11:14 A playwright and journalist Nikalai Khalezin is being threatened 27
The head of “Free Theater” was threatened after the publication of his article about Aleh Byabenin’s death.
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9:06 “Rossiya” TV Channel told about murders of Lukashenka’s opponents (Video) 69
A sensational item was broadcast on Rossiya TV channel in the weekly programme “Vesti nedeli” by Evgeny Revenko.
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17:46 Participants of Eastern Partnership Forum: “Suicide story raises serious doubts”
Participants of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum have made a statement regarding the death of charter97.org website founder Aleh Byabenin.
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15:50 Le Monde: The journalist’s death sends Belarus back to the gloomy epoch of disappearances in 1999-2000 3
After the death of the journalist Aleh Byabenin the situation in Belarus continues to worsen, the French newspaper writes.
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9:35 Journalist Aleh Byabenin’s assassins’ paymasters disclose themselves (Video) 230
Charter97.org has a video which makes it clear who had been contractors of the crime.
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17:41 Reporters without borders: Circumstances of Byabenin’s death were very strange 1
Aleh Byabenin was a brilliant professional and a courageous man, and it’s impossible to believe his voluntarily death, Reporters without Borders note.
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17:11 We should look narrowly at OSCE experts invited to Belarus 15
Such an opinion has been expressed by the leader of “European Belarus” civil campaign Andrei Sannikov.
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13:48 Tom Stoppard: Courageous Belarusians confront dictatorship and violence 2
A famous British playwright Tom Stoppard comments on the death of a journalist Aleh Byabenin in Belarus. He knew Aleh personally.
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13:07 Committee to Protect Journalists: “Charter97.org website criticized the authorities. Journalist’s death warrants thorough investigation” 2
A New York–based human rights organization calls for independent investigation of Aleh Byabenin’s death.
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12:10 Belarusian Foreign Ministry promises to invite OSCE forensic experts 9
It has been stated by Andrei Savinykh, Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, who commented on the death of journalist Aleh Byabenin.
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9:47 A version “political assassination” should be the basic one 64
A friend of Aleh Byabenin and the editor of the web site Electroname.com writes about what was happening on the day of the tragedy and the day before it.
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9:14 Europe's shame: the dictatorship of Belarus 26
A death in Minsk should sound the alarm bells.
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16:50 PACE rapporteur: a full-scale investigation of the Belarusian journalist’s death is necessary
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly will keep a tab on the events taking place in Belarus on the threshold of presidential election.
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15:44 Public prosecution office, however, is working at other versions of Aleh Byabenin death 13
It turns out that the version of the “suicide” is not the only one for the law enforcement agencies.
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9:57 The European Federation of journalists: “We are extremely concerned about the intimidation of journalists in Belarus” 4
On September, 6 the European Federation of journalists sent a letter to the names of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Head of Interior Ministry Anatol Kulyashou and General Prosecutor Grigory Vasilevich.
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8:49 OSCE calls upon independent investigation of Aleh Byabenin’s death 6
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media has made a statement concerning the death of the journalist in Belarus.
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8:48 Russian TV channels” It could be political assassination (Video) 68
Today we are learning the truth about the events in Belarus from Russian mass media. Information about the death of Aleh Byabenin – uncensored.
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15:04 Last farewell said to Aleh Byabenin in Minsk (Video, Photo) 96
Hundreds of Minsk dwellers have come today to say last farewell to the founder and editor of charter97.org website Aleh Byabenin.
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12:51 Mass media of Germany: Danger was hovering over independent journalists of Belarus long ago 12
The death of Aleh Byabenin causes great concern, Sueddeutsche Zeitung writes.
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