Tuesday, December 28, 2010

News at Eleven: Lawyers have been denied access

to Vladimir Neklyayev, a 64-year-old poet, who was knocked unconscious during demonstrations on Sunday and dragged from his hospital bed to a KGB prison a few hours later.

"Neklyayev was badly beaten," said Tatyana Revyako of Viasna, a human rights group which is co-ordinating legal help to arrested demonstrators. "The fact we are not allowed to see him is extremely alarming and suspicious. He could be dead for all we know."

from The Guardian: Belarus presidential candidate denied visit by lawyers in jail

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