News on the topic: administrative prosecution
13.12.2011 National-Bolshevik fined for action against TV lies
Dzianis Sakhar, an activist of the organizing committee of the National-Bolshevik Party, was fined 1,050,000 rubles.
13.12.2011 Tatsiana Hatsura fined
Human rights activists and journalists were not allowed to enter the court room by two persons in plainclothes. The presiding judge was Andrei Khadanovich.
12.12.2011 Barysau: signature collector Illiushonak gets fined
On 12 December the third hearing on the administrative case of Mikalai Illiushonak took place at the Barysau City Court.
12.12.2011 Vitsebsk: trial of “European Belarus” activists
Ivan Salokhin and Uladzislau Varanetski were detained in the evening of 11 December, while trying to hang out the banner “Freedom to political prisoners!” on a bridge.
09.12.2011 Brest: trade union activist struggle for freedom of peaceful assemblies
Valiantsin Lazarenkau, head of the Brest regional unit of the Free Trade Union of Belarus, applied to the Brest Region Court, trying to prove that the decisions taken by the Brest City Executive Committee concerning mass events are almost impossible to implement.
09.12.2011 Mahiliou: Iryna Tryhubava to be tried for leaflet
Iryna Tryhubava, an activist of the Free Trade Union of Steelworkers, was detained about three weeks ago near the porch of a house in the Yubileiny syburb.
09.12.2011 Tatsiana Hatsura gets fined on her birthday
Civil activist and a mother of many children Tatsiana Hatsuara (pregnant at the time) turns 31 today.
08.12.2011 Barysau: verdict to signature collector to be announced on 12 December
On 7 December the second hearing on the case of Mikalai Iliiushonak took place at the Barysau City Court. Illiushonak had been detained on 21 September, while collecting signatures for holding a People’s Assembly in Barysau. He was kept at the police station for three hours and his car and apartment were inspected.
08.12.2011 Trial of national-Bolshevik Kontush postponed
On 8 December Yury Harbatouski, Judge of the Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk, continued the consideration of the administrative case against Yauhen Kontush, who is charged with “disorderly conduct” for alleged spilling a bucket of noodles and scattering leaflets at the entrance of the Belarusian TV and Radio Company on 3 December.
07.12.2011 Krychau: tax inspectors fine editor of “Volny Horad”
On 6 December Siarhei Niarouny, the editor of the independent Krychau newspaper “Volny Horad”, was summonsed to the local tax inspection and presented a ruling according to which he was fined 350,000 rubles for presenting incorrect information in his income and assets declarations.
07.12.2011 Court prescribes forced medical treatment for Aliaksandr Kruty
The trial of the father of Inesa Krutaya, a victim of the 11 April blast in the Minsk metro, was closed. There were only a prosecutor, a judge, a secretary, Aliaksandr's lawyer and the victim – doctor Valiantsina Chupik. It was her who insisted on the closed regime.
07.12.2011 Babruisk: trial postponed
The second hearing on the case of the “Young Democrats” Alena and Dzmitry Toustsiks, Maryna Ivanova and Artsiom Markhasiou, who had lit candles on Ancestors' Commemoration Day, 2 November, was to have taken place today, on 7 December.
06.12.2011 Mahiliou Region Court doesn't justify participant of People's Assembly
On 6 December the Mahiliou Region Court considered the appeal of Uladzimir Shantsau, the head of the Mahiliou region organization of the United Civil Party, against the fine of 1.4 million rubles, imposed on him by the Leninski District Court of Mahiliou for the organization of the People's Assembly in Mahiliou on 8 October.
06.12.2011 Mahiliou: repressed for Belarusian language applies to court
Andrei Padaliak from Mahiliou, fined allegedly for swearing, says the real reason for the trial was speaking Belarusian.
05.12.2011 Minsk City Court upholds annulment of Aleh Aheyeu's license
On 28 November 2011 the civil cases panel of judges of the Minsk City Court, consisting of N. Zhupikava, A.Antonenka and I. Lazavikova considered the administrative lawsuit of counsel Aleh Aheyeu against the unlawful annulment of his lawyer's license by the Ministry of Justice.
