Swedish phonecompany Telia is having trouble with its shared interest in Turkcell. A bigger problem with Telia´s 38 % ownership of Turkcell is that they together own several cell phone-companies in Central Asia, Russia – and Belaurs. During the elections in Belarus in december 2010 many oppositional activists and politicians had their phones surveilled by the government. Some of that [...]

Info Belarus project manager Isabel Sommerfeld will today take part in a seminar organized by Amnesty International in Sweden, where you will be able to hear her talk about her trips to Belarus and the presidential election in 2010. Since today is the International Day Against Death Penalty, Amnesty will be informing about Belarus, the only state in Europe and [...]

Students of universities in Belarus are forced to sign a document obliging them not to take part in the “Revolution Through Social Networks”, Charter 97 reports. Police men are personally calling students and forcing them to sign this ‘contract’. This is a way of putting psychological pressure on students. “I was told that police were looking for me when I [...]