News on the topic: administrative prosecution
21.07.2011 Protesters stand trials in Minsk
The persons detained during yesterday’s “silent protest” in Minsk have stood trials in the city’s courts this afternoon. All of them face charges for disorderly conduct.
20.07.2011 Gay movement activist Natallya Pradzed arrested for 10 days
She has been punished for an unauthorized action this way. LGBT movement activist Syarhei Pradzed has informed Euroradio about it on air.
18.07.2011 Young opposition activist in Brest heavily fined over "silent" protest
A district judge in Brest on July 15 imposed a heavy fine on young opposition activist Yury Batsuk over a "silent" protest staged in the city on July 6.
15.07.2011 Navapolatsk: “silent protesters” punished with fines
The Navapolatsk Town Court considered the administrative cases of the civil activists detained during the silent protest action on 13 July.
14.07.2011 Chronicle of 13 July protests in Minsk: people are sentenced to arrest
Policemen and people in mufti controlled the main places of gathering of protesters: the supermarkets Eurapeiski, Ryha, Chkalauski, Belarus, Karona and Niamiha. The Belarusian Internet providers temporary blocked the access to the social network Vkontakte all over Belarus.
14.07.2011 13 July silent protests in Belarusian regions
The format of the silent protest actions was changed (their participants were advised not to clap their hands, just to walk silently and set the alarm clock of their mobile phones to 8 p.m. to mark the end of the action). However, the places of gathering remained the same, which gave the law machinery the opportunity to prepare to them. The central squares of many Belarusian towns were fenced with iron tourniquets or blocked by the police.
14.07.2011 Vileika: Dzmitry Kaptsiuh sentenced to 7 days of arrest
On 13 July the third court hearing on the case of Dzmitry Kaptsiuh took place in the Vileika District Court. Judge A.Artsimovich sentenced him to 7 days of arrest for participation in the silent protest action on 6 July.
13.07.2011 Mother of detained boy denied right to appeal detention of her small son
Volha Chaichyts received an answer to her complaint to the procuracy concerning the detention of her 1,5-year-old boy. Strangely enough, the answer came from the court.
13.07.2011 Hrodna: fine to journalist Hrazhyna Shalkevich
On 13 July the Leninski District Court of Hrodna fined Hrazhyna Shalkevich, a journalist for Radio Racyja, 1,050,000 rubles for alleged participation in the silent protest action of 6 July.
12.07.2011 Vileika: priest fined for refusal from dactylography
A father with many children, archpriest Ihar Prylepski serves masses in the St. Paul and Peter church in the village of Kasuta in the Vialeika district. Like the majority of the Belarusian men, he received a summons to the police in order to get fingerprinted.
12.07.2011 Fine to Radio Liberty's correspondent
The Leninski District Court of Hrodna fined Mikalai Karnevich, the Hrodna correspondent for Radio Liberty, 1,050,000 rubles for “participation in the unauthorized action” held there on 3 July. The court ignored the document confirming that the journalist worked there.
12.07.2011 Tatsiana Seviarynets got fined
Tatsiana Seviarynets, the mother of the political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets and a member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, was detained in Vitsebsk in the evening of 8 July and taken to the police where she was interrogated. She spent the weekend at the police station.
12.07.2011 Navapolatsk: newspaper distributor fined for “obscene language”
Mikalai Chartkou, a distributor of the Tut i Zaraz bulletin, was fined 70,000 rubles under Article 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, “disorderly conduct”.
11.07.2011 Valery Klimichenka sentenced to 15 days of arrest
The activist was detained at the silent protest action in the town of Maladechna on 6 July. However, at the trial he demanded to summon additional witnesses. As a result, the proceedings were postponed to 11 July. However, it didn’t help the defendant, who was sentenced to 15 days of arrest, a maximal sentence provided by Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offences, “violation of the rules of organizing or holding a mass event”.
11.07.2011 Case concerning protests at Bruzgi is getting even more absurd
36 people who have been already punished for blocking the road at the border crossing point Bruzgi in order to protest against the fuel export restrictions are called to court again. The trial will take place on 20 July.
