News on the topic: political persecution
14.12.2007 Brest: Participants of Anti-Putin Picket Get Imprisoned
A human rights activist Uladzimir Vialichkin told RFE/RL that the riot police detained several public activists near the General consulate of Russia in Brest.
14.12.2007 Participants of Another Action of Protest against Putin’s Visits Detained in Niamiha Street
Actions 'For Independent Belarus' continue in Minsk. Another action against Vladimir Putin’s visit to Belarus was organized at 6.20 p.m. on 13 December. Several dozens of activists of the civil campaign 'For Freedom!' with a banner ‘Putin, Go Home!’ came out to the Minsk center in Niamiha Street. The young people unfurled European, national and official Belarusian flags. They chanted ‘Putin, Go Home!’ ‘Independence!’, ‘No unions with Russia!’, ‘It’s not Russia here!’ and tore portraits of Putin into pieces.
11.12.2007 Politicial Prisoner Finkevich to Be Tried on 20 December
According to the information of Mahiliou human rights activist Barys Bukhel, the consideration of the criminal case against Artur Finkevich was appointed on 20 December. The trial will start at 10.30 a.m. The court has directed to Mahiliou state university a request to provide an interpreter into Belarusian.
11.12.2007 Viktar Ivashkevich: Trial Delayed
The trial over the deputy head of the Belarusian People’s Front party Viktar Ivashkevich has started today in the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk.
10.12.2007 Masty: Ales Zarembiuk Accused of Unauthorized Picketing
As Ales Zarembiuk told Radio 'Racyja'¸ on 10 December he received a telephone call from the senior inspector of the law and order section of Masty district police department Aliaksandr Danilchyk. The inspector asked the activist to come to the police department. He explained that he had brought to the prosecutor’s office Zarembiuk’s explanatory note concerning a recent meeting of Aliaksandr Milinkevich with the citizens of Masty and the prosecutor’s office ordered him to compose on Zarembiuk a report for organization of unauthorized meeting. Ales Zarembiuk refused to come to the police department without official summons.
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.
