News on the topic: political persecution
10.12.2007 Youth Activist Katsiaryna Salauyova Gets Rehabilitated at University
Katsiaryna Salauyova was informed about it by the rector of Polatsk State University during an unofficial talk. However, he said that she could be expelled again after the first detention or other punishment.
07.12.2007 Activist of BPF Youth Threatened with Property Confiscation and Travel Restrictions
Today the activist of the BPF Youth Zmitser Zhaleznichenka was summonsed to Chyhunachny district court of Homel. The court marshal Dzianis Saponenka demanded from the activist explanations why he did not pay any fines.
07.12.2007 Vitsebsk: Aliaksandr Danileuski Sentenced to 180 Hours of Corrective Labor
The first-year student of the European Humanities University Aliaksandr Danileuski has been punished with 180 hours of corrective labor within the frames of the Criminal Case under article 380, part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (forging, production, usage or distribution of forged documents, seals and blanks).
07.12.2007 Search at Office of Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions
In the evening of 6 December the office of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions was raided by the police.
07.12.2007 KGB Persecutes ‘Belsat’ Journalist
A journalist from Homel, a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists Siarhei Padsasonny applied to the regional prosecutor’s office with a complaint against the actions of the Homel oblast KGB office.
06.12.2007 Police Threaten to Siarzhuk Huminski
Several days ago the police paid a visit to the parents of the Young Front activist Siarzhuk Huminski.
06.12.2007 Salihorsk: Activists interrogated on New Criminal Case against Ivan Shyla
By 7 December Salihorsk prosecutor’s office must finish the check-up on a criminal case against Ivan Shyla. Bear in mind that on 7 December the youth activists of Salihorsk held the action ‘Put Communism to Tribunal’ and were detained by the police, who used force. Later an administrative commission gave to them small fines. A criminal case was brought against the youth leader Ivan Shyla. He is charged with ‘resistance to the police’. He says that it is impossible to ‘resist’ with one’s arms twisted.
05.12.2007 Polatsk: Katsiaryna Salauyova Expelled from Polatsk State University
Today the official order for Katsyaryna Salauyova’s expulsion from Polatsk State University has been signed. The activist’s group mates began to gather signatures in her support.
04.12.2007 Belarusian Customs Officers Check-up Journalists’ Laptops
In the night of 1-2 December at the frontier point 'Tserakhava' on the Ukrainian border the Belarusian customs officers took away for a check-up the laptop that belonged to the journalist of Radio 'Racyja' Aliaksei Minchonak. Minchonak was returning from a press tour across the Ukrainian part of Chernobyl zone.
04.12.2007 Masty: Ales Zarembiuk Summonsed to Police
The democratic activist Ales Zarembiuk is summonsed to Masty district police department in connection with Aliaksandr Milinkevich’s visit to the town. Milinkevich was in Masty on 4 November and discussed social issued with those who came to meet with him.
28.11.2007 Katsiaryna Salauyova: «It Resembled Criminal Series»
Katsiaryna Salauyova, Young Front activist, was detained in Polatsak on Sunday night. The girl was caught by unknown people in civvies and taken to a police department by force. The victim tells the details of her detainment to the Young Front press service.
27.11.2007 KGB against BelSat
The first non-state TV channel for Belarusians BelSat begins broadcasting from December, 10. The Gomel KGB is trying to find out who of the local journalists is going to work for independent TV.
15.11.2007 Money Disappear from Political Prisoner Andrei Klimau’s Account
The world already knows the torturing of political prisoner Klimau (a deputy of the disbanded Belarusian parliament). But the administration of correction facility #20 of the Department of correction is convinced of their impunity, and continues torturing the sick man.
14.11.2007 Yaraslau Hryshchenia Fired
On 13 November the director of Baranavichy Culture house of railway workers phoned to the youth activist Yaraslau Hryshchenia and told that he was fired.
14.11.2007 Farce: Political Prisoner Klimau’s Foodstuffs ‘Checked’ for More than a Month
Only recently has the political prisoner Andrei Klimau received the foodstuffs, which were taken away for a ‘check-up’ in early October, as soon as he was guarded to Mozyr colony. The information about the return of the foodstuffs to the prisoner was voiced by Yury Barankau, the acting head of the Department of serving punishment.
