Homel: Mikalai Siakerka applied to court to get excluded from the "black list"
On 3 January the head of the Homel
regional branch of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World"
Uladzimir Siakerka filed a complaint to the Tsentralny District Court
of Homel.
He asks the court to find the actions of the border
guards who had put him of a train, and oblige the military unit #1242
of the State Border Committee to present information about the
procedure and the legal grounds of his putting in the database of the
persons who are restricted to travel abroad, as well as the procedure
and the legal grounds for exclusion from such databases.
Bear
in mind that in October 2012 the border guards put Mr. Siakerka off
the train Chernihiv-Homel, saying he was in some "list database
on errand of the law machinery". The same formula was reflected
in the report concerning the fact of his drop-off. When the
politician tried to find out in which lists he was and why, he was
accused in insubordination to lawful demands of duty officials and
subsequently fined by court.
Soon after this Mr. Siakerka
applied to the administration of the border guard brigade, asking to
explain the reasons and grounds for putting him in the so-called
"list database". As he learned from the received answer,
the duty officials of the border brigade who had put him off the
trade, had no information that he was put in the "list
database".
"I consider the refusal of the
administration of the border guard brigade to provide information
which concerns my rights and legal interests as unlawful. That's why
on 15 November I applied to a higher state organ – the State Border
Committee, which answered that the information which interested me,
namely the procedure and the legal grounds for putting my personal
data in the list databases, as well as exclusion from them, belonged
to limited circulation information in conformity with the Law "On
information, informatization and information protection". I also
received a similar answer from the Homel inter-garrison military
prosecutor," states Uladimir Siakerka in his lawsuit.