News on the topic: administrative prosecution
10.04.2012 Ivan Kruk Addresses High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ivan Kruk, a civil activist from Astravets, filed an individual communication with the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN. A copy of the communication was also sent to the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus.
09.04.2012 Minsk resident fined for refusal to pass dactylography
On 6 April the Kastrychnitski District Court of Minsk levied Minsk resident Ruslan Nevar with a fine of 4 million rubles for "insubordination to a lawful demand of a public agent" (Article 23.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).
09.04.2012 Hrodna: court confirms that refusal to be fingerprinted at work is "insubordination"
Hrodna resident Ruslan Piatsko, levied with a fine of 700,000 rubles (about $86) for the alleged insubordination to the demand of a duty official to pass dactylographic registration, received an answer to his appeal against the fine.
09.04.2012 Beaten "Young Front" activists sentenced to 10 days of arrest
Zmitser Kramianetski and Mikhail Muski were detained in Minsk on Saturday evening while waiting for a train at Kupalayskaya metro station. According to Charter’97, they were stopped for inspection because of a “Young Front” cloth badge on his backpack. There was a white-red-white flag and a cross of Euphrosyne of Polatsk on the cloth badge.
05.04.2012 Last trial concerning concert in “Yo-mayo” to take place on 9 April
Ihar Trukhanovich, detained and severely beaten on 24 March, during a Saturday concert at “Yo-mayo” club, will be tried for “disorderly conduct” as some other detainees.
04.04.2012 Deputy head of Supreme Court doesn't doubt Ihar Sluchak is a hooligan
The initiator of the civil campaign "Office work in Belarusian" Ihar Sluchak (in the photo) received an answer from the Supreme Court of Belarus, signed by the first deputy head, Aliaksandr Fedartsou (the officer who had issued the death verdicts to Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou).
04.04.2012 Metamorphoses in the case of "petty hooligan" Sviatlana Viarheichyk
Police beat pensioner Sviatlana Viarheichyk during detention more than 8 months ago. Since that time she has been keeping correspondence with the law machinery, trying to restore justice and draw to legal account the officers of the Kastrychnitski District Police Department of Minsk who had inflicted bodily injuries to her.
04.04.2012 Hrodna: trial for "refusal from dactylography" held behind closed doors
The hearings on the administrative case of Uladzimir Fianenka, charged with "refusal from dactylography", started behind the closed doors in the Leninski District Court of Hrodna. The matter is that the police charged the man in absentia — he found about their report only when he was summonsed to the court. Mr. Fianenka asked to postpone the hearings, but the judge rejected his motion.
03.04.2012 International human rights organization “Front Line” protests against unlawful punishment of human rights defender Valery Shchukin
On 30 March 2012, human rights defender Mr Valery Shchukin was condemned to an administrative fine in relation to a protest held on the previous day against the trial of political activists which was about to take place behind closed doors in Orsha.
03.04.2012 Hrodna police drew up false report
An administrative case for refusal to be fingerprinted was brought against Hrodna resident Uladzimir Fianenka. Mr. Fianenka will be tried at the Leninski District Court of Hrodna on 4 April.
02.04.2012 Baranavichy: attempt to protect right to fair election
Baranavichy-based entrepreneur and civil activist Mikalai Charnavus applied to the Baranavichy City Court with a request to find unlawful the re-election of the Council of the central market of Baranavichy. The matter is that the re-election wasn't conducted by the general assembly of the entrepreneurs, but by the administration of the market.
30.03.2012 Valery Shchukin fined BYR 1,190,000
Orsha court has found human rights defender Valery Shchukin guilty of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and fined him BYR 1,190,000.
29.03.2012 Belarus Opposition Activists Freed From Jail, But Passports Held
MINSK -- Three opposition activists in Belarus have been released from jail, a day after they were arrested while trying to travel to Brussels to meet European Union officials.
27.03.2012 Minsk court convicts another person detained in benefit concert
On 26 March Minsk Partyzanski District Court sentenced Mrs. Alena Dubovik to three days of administrative arrest.
26.03.2012 Minsk courts convict attendees of benefit concert
Today, Minsk Tsentralny District Court has considered the administrative charges brought against the teenagers arrested during the “Food Not Bombs” benefit concert held in the city’s MTZ Palace of Culture on 24 March.
