News on the topic: administrative prosecution
10.10.2014 Barysau: Belarusian and Ukrainian football fans sentenced to fines and arrest
As RFE/RL learned at the Police Bureau of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee, 41 people were taken to the Barysau District Police Department after the football match between the national teams of Belarus and Ukraine in the evening of October 9.
09.10.2014 Court sides with police in Mikalai Charnavus' case
October 8, the Baranavichy City and District Court considered a claim of the entrepreneur Mikalai Charnavus on protection of honor and dignity against actionsof the deputy head of the Baranavichy City PoliceDepartment Eldar Vilchkouski. The court session was led by Judge Volha Apanovich with the assistance of the court clerk Krystsina Hladkikh.
09.10.2014 Pavel Vinahradau sentenced to 15 days of arrest again
The leader of the youth wing of “Tell the Truth”, “Zmena” was sentenced to the arrest term for alleged disorderly conduct in the building of the Maskouski District Police Department of Minsk on October 8.
08.10.2014 Independent journalist from Mahiliou fined 6 million rubles
Aliaksandr Burakou was punished for “cooperating with the foreign media”.
07.10.2014 Journalist Andrei Mialeshka gets second fine for work without accreditation
October 7, the Hrodna District Court fined Andrei Mialeshka about 500$ for violating art. 22.9, part 2 of the Administrative Code (illegal production and distribution of mass media products).
07.10.2014 Police disrupt gathering dedicated to Illia Dabratvor's release
Illia Dabratvor was released after 20 days of administrative arrest.
03.10.2014 Pavel Vinahradau to be tried again
Another administrative case has been brought against the “Zmena” activist Pavel Vinahradau. Today it will be considered by the Maskouski District Court of Minsk.
02.10.2014 Trial of Andrei Mialeshka to continue October 7
October 2, HrodnaDistrict Court started the trial of the administrative case against a freelance journalist Andrei Mialeshka. He is accused of illegally producing and distributing information production, which is penalized by Article 22.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
30.09.2014 Hrodna: October 2 - The trial of journalist Andrei Mialeshka
Authorities of Hrodna continue to persecute a freelance journalist Andrei Mialeshka.
25.09.2014 Mogilev: fine for transporting the newspaper "Our Mogilev" and newsletter "Social Democrat" is remained in force
Today, September 25, Mogilev Regional Court in the face of Judge Mikalaj Hladki remained in force the decision of the Mogilev district court regarding about the fine of 30 basic units and confiscation of almost 12 thousand papers at the vice-president of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Ihar Barysau.
23.09.2014 Today in Bobruisk and Mogilev is decided what to do with independent journalists
Court in the case of journalist Maryna Malchanava is holding in Bobruisk at 3.30 p.m. on September 23 - and the next visit of Ales Burakou to the police department in Mogilev at 11a.m.
16.09.2014 Zmitser Kramianetski continues struggling for his right to monetary compensation
The Tsentralny District Court of Homel dismissed the claim of the activist of "Young Front" Dzmitry Kramianetski to the police department of the Homel Regional Executive Committee and the Ministry of Finances of the Republic of Belarus for pecuniary compensation for moral damages.
15.09.2014 “Zmena” activists arrested in Minsk
September 11, friends and relatives were unable to contact an activist of “Zmena” (youth wing of “Tell the Truth”) Yahor Viniatski. As reported by his mother, Aliaksandra Viniatskaya, whom he was allowed to phone after a trial, he was sentenced to 15 days of arrest. There is no information about the essence of the charges to him so far.
11.09.2014 New method: judge determines “extremism” by reading book titles
September 8, an activist of the anarchist movement Raman Khalilau was released after a ten-day. He told the Human Rights Centre "Viasna" how the judge defined the "extremist" content of the books, booklets and newspapers seized from him.
10.09.2014 Police refuse to return Yury Rubtsou “item of clothing with political inscriptions”
Acting Chief of the Savetski District Police Department of Minsk, police colonel P. Siamizhen reported to Homel resident Yury Rybtsou that the "item of clothing that has an inscription of a political nature and had been seized by police”, was returned to him along with other things right after his release from the detention center in Minsk.
