News on the topic: administrative prosecution
10.06.2013 Shchuchyn: pensioner to be tried for memorial cross
Shchuchyn police drew up a report of administrative offense against pensioner Veranika Sebastsyanovich, a member of the Union of Poes in Belarus which is unregistered by the authorities. The 82-year-old was mailed a copy of the report, in which she is charged with holding an unsanctioned rally.
10.06.2013 Organizer of Milavidy feast summonsed to police
On 9 June civic activist Viktar Syrytsa, organizer of a festival in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Milavidy, received a notice to come to the Baranavichy District Police Department on 12 June, signed by the acting head of the Police Department, lieutenant colonel D. Maisenia.
08.06.2013 Kalinkavichy District Court punishes UCP activist Dzianis Rabianok with a fine
On 7 June the hearings on the administrative case against the activist of the United Civil Party Dzianis Rabianok finished at the Kalinkavichy District Court. He was found guilty of causing bodily injury (art.9.1 CAO) and punished with a fine of 1 million rubles.
07.06.2013 Baranavichy activists ask how the authorities will implement Views of UN Human Rights Committee
On 7 June human rights defenders and social activists Siarhei Housha, Viktar Meziaka and Viktar Syrytsa filed an appeal to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which they asked to be provided with information on measures taken by Belarus to implement the pinions of the UN Committee on Human Rights, set out on 27 July 2012.
05.06.2013 Vitsebsk Regional Court upholds dismissal of activist of Free Trade Union of Belarus
The judge turned down the appeal against the dismissal of the head of a unit of the independent trade union Viktar Stukau. He tried to appeal the ruling of the Polatsk City Court, which confirmed that his dismissal from the company "Polatsk-Glass" was done correctly.
05.06.2013 Ministry of Foreign Affairs is asked about publication of the decision of the UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus is asked to tell where a decision of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women was published.
22.05.2013 Pensioner fined for "Chaser" coat-of-arms on a balcony
Activist in Hlybokaye, Vitsebsk region gets fined for 'spoiling the appearance of the building'.
20.05.2013 Two opposition activists in Vitsyebsk fined for displaying signs against nuclear power plant project
A district judge in Vitsyebsk on Friday sentenced opposition activists Yan Dzyarzhawtsaw and Vital Kavalenka to fines for displaying signs against the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus.
20.05.2013 Vitsebsk BPF members fined 3 mln over illegal distribution of party’s newsletter
Judge Alena Protas found Kastus Smolikau and Leanid Autukhou, both members of the Belarusian Popular Front’s Vitsebsk office, guilty of violating mass media legislation. The BPF members were charged with distributing the newsletter called “Magistrate,” more than 299 copies of which were found by the police. However, the count was conducted in a rather extraordinary way: not by copies but by “big packs” and “thick bundles” – these were the arguments mentioned in court to prove the illegal excess in the edition’s circulation.
17.05.2013 Former political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou fined 3 mln
Judge Yury Harbatouski of Minsk Pershamaiski District Court heard today the charges brought against former political prisoner Vasil Parfiankou and fined him 3 mln rubles.
16.05.2013 BCD Hrodna member appeals fine
Siarhei Verameyenka, member of the Belarusian Christian Democracy’s Hrodna office, is appealing a fine to Hrodna Regional Court. On May 7 Judge Natallia Kozel of Leninsky District Court of Hrodna sentenced Siarhei Verameyenka to a fine of 2 mln rubles for alleged violation of Article 22.9 (par. 2) - illegal manufacture of printed products.
16.05.2013 Vitsebsk Regional Court confirms fine to activist Piotr Ivanov
Vitsebsk Regional Court has heard an appeal lodged by Piotr Ivanov to contest the ruling by Judge Valiantsina Kismiaroshkina of Pershamaiski District Court who fined the activist for allegedly providing false testimony against traffic police and disobeying police officers. As a result, the regional court decided that the decision of the district court was legal.
15.05.2013 BAJ demands Review Proceedings in the Cases of Arrested Journalists
On May 13 the public association BAJ filed official letters to the Investigative Committee, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Home Affairs, and the Prosecutor General, demanding to investigate the allegations of arbitrary detentions and arrests of journalists on May 7 and April 25.
14.05.2013 Court shows no support to trade union activist
Representative of the Mahiliou house-building combine didn't manage to prove at court that Aliaksei Paulouski didn't do his work properly. Earlier the head of the personnel department of the Mahiliou house-building combine Ina Zahurskaya refused to employ the activist of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry Aliaksei Paulouski as he allegedly spent 80% of his working time on talks with workers instead of implementing his professional duties.
13.05.2013 Ministry of Justice recognizes actions of Salihorsk District Court as unlawful
The Ministry of Justice took the side of the "Young Front" activist Andrei Tychyna in his long-standing dispute with the Salihorsk District Court.
