News on the topic: KGB
13.09.2013 Conference of Catholic bishops of Belarus discusses criminal prosecution of priest Lazar
As stated at the website catholic.by, on 12 September the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Belarus received information from the state organs about the detention of priest Uladzislau Lazar.
05.09.2013 Volunteers collect donations in support of the relatives of priest Lazar
According to the coordinator of the civil initiative “For Liberty” (“Za Voliu”) Hanna Shaputska, the fundraising is necessary first of all to pay for the lawyer and the parcels to the remand prison.
29.08.2013 Was the refusal to accept a parcel for the detained director general of “Uralkaliy” Vladislav Baumgertner legal?
To put it mildly, employees of the Belarusian KGB paltered while refusing to accept a parcel for the detained head of “Uralkaliy” Vladislav Baumgertner.
28.08.2013 BCD gathered 4,200 signatures for release of priest Lazar
The organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy has already collected more than 4,200 signatures under the petition for the release of the arrested priest Uladzislau Lazar.
27.08.2013 Mahiliou Regional Court confirms KGB supervision for BCD activist
Mahiliou Regional Court considered yesterday the appeal lodged by an activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, Aleh Aksionau. The activist tried to appeal against a conversation he was subjected to by the KGB agents, the Committee’s supervision over the activist, as well as the anti-Constitutional character of Article 193.1 of the Criminal Code criminalizing activities on behalf of an unregistered organization.
22.08.2013 Criminal proceedings against Ales Mikhalevich will not stop until he returns to the country?
The Investigators gave a negative reply to the request of Ales Mikhalevich, in which the former presidential candidate and the KGB detention center inmate, asks for redemption of the criminal proceedings initiated against him. Mikhalevich to this day is a suspect in the investigation of the organization of “mass riots” in Minsk, December 19, 2010, as the government called a number of organized protests against rigged presidential election.
13.08.2013 Belarusian Christian Democracy applies to the prosecutor's office on priest Lazar's case
The co-chairman of the organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy" Vital Rymashevski and its executive secretary Dzianis Sadouski filed to the Office of the Prosecutor General a collective appeal in the case of the Catholic priest of the parish of the Holy Spirit in Barysau, Uladzislau Lazar.
07.08.2013 Minsk politicians meet with Slonim residents under police and KGB surveillance
The Minsk politicians Yury Hubarevich (first deputy chairman of the Movement "For Freedom"), Aliaksei Yanukevich (Chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front Party) and Andrei Dzmitryieu (deputy head of the civic initiative "Tell the Truth") spent the whole day of 6 August in Slonim.
04.08.2013 BCD demands information about the fate of priest Uladzislau Lazar
The organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy" demands that the KGB provide complete information about the fate of the detained priest Uladzislau Lazar.
04.08.2013 Barysau: human rights defender didn't manage to find about the location of priest Uladzislau Lazar
A month ago the Barysau society was astonished by the news about the arrest of reverend Uladzislau Lazar, rector of the local parish of Holy Spirit, and his placement in the remand prison of the KGB. Human rights defender Maryna Statkevich unsuccessfully tried to find out where he was kept, in order to pass him the necessary things.
26.07.2013 Uladzimir Labkovich: KGB has long stopped taking care of national security
The state security committee (KGB) deals exceptionally with political persecution.
24.07.2013 Lukashenka gives more power to KGB
The KGB will examine samples of special equipment for surreptitious access to information.
23.07.2013 BCD Mahiliou activist appeals warning for illegal party membership
Aleh Aksionau, activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, lodged today an appeal to the Board on Civil Cases of Mahiliou Regional Court.
13.06.2013 Pavel Levinau demands change of restraint for Haidukou
Vitsebsk human rights activist addressed such a request to a judge of the Vitsensk Regional Court Halina Urbanovich, who leads the trial on the "espionage case". Pavel Levinau also filed a complaint to the Investigative Committee and applied to the head of the Vitsebsk Regional Court Miakali Khamichonak concerning the noticed violations.
12.06.2013 Mahiliou: Aleh Aksionau appeals KGB actions at court
Aleh Aksionau filed a complaint against the illegal activities of the Mahiliou Regional KGB Department to the Leninski District Court of Mahiliou. The activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy asks the court to abolish the warning, issued to him by KGB and consider the prophylactic conversation, held by a KGB officer, as illegal and unjustified.
