News on the topic: administrative prosecution
20.12.2010 Hundreds of detainees stand closed-door trials.
The Human Rights Center “Viasna” has been processing information on the numerous trials of peaceful protesters detained during a rally in downtown Minsk last evening.
14.12.2010 Pavel Sapelka: administrative cases against Pushkin were fabricated
On 13 December lawyer Pavel Sapelka studied the materials of the administrative case of a well-known artist Ales Pushkin who had been punished with 13 days of arrest on 9 December by Judge Volha Foma, for ‘hooliganism’ and ‘insubordination to lawful demands of the police’.
13.12.2010 Offender of Rymasheuski’s electioneering agent comes off clear
The bully who tore away the campaign posters that were displayed in the authorized locations and tried to beat Vital Rymasheuski’s electioneering agent Valeryia Charnamortsava, was detained over a week ago, but still hasn’t been brought to a trial. Itself the victim this time not only not invited to the court of the Soviet district of the capital, which must review the case, but also to hide from her name forward.
06.12.2010 Young Front activist gets fined for posting ads on notice boards
The administrative commission of the Maskouski district of Minsk (headed by ) sentenced Eduard Balanchuk to pay 105,000 rubles (about $35) for posting Young Front adverts on the notice boards at the entrance of multi-stored houses in the town of Babruisk. The activist was informed about it by a special letter which he received on 3 December.
03.12.2010 Hrodna: the regional court sides with a district court
On 2 December the Hrodna Region Court considered the appeal of Dzmitry Bandarchuk against the verdict of the Leninski District Court of Hrodna of 10 November 2010, according to which he was fined 700,000 rubles (about $230) for the alleged production and an attempt of distribution of the newspaper Prauda Niakliayeva.
23.11.2010 Vitsebsk “boycotters” fined and arrested
Barys Hamaida and Yan Dazortsau have been punished. Judge Alena Tsyhankova interpreted their actions as organization of an unauthorized picket. Mr. Dazortsau will be fined for Br350 thousand (10 base amounts) and Mr. Hamaida will spend five days in jail.
12.11.2010 Haradok: court marshals seize computer from Leanid Autukhou
The Chairperson of the Haradok town organization of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Leanid Autukhou was deprived of his computer due to the failure to pay the fine to which he had been sentenced last year for a street action with Belarusian national white-red-white flags.
10.11.2010 Vitsebsk: journalist not invited to sittings of district election commissions
Leanid Svetsik got registered at the Kastrychnitski, the Pershamaiski and the Chyhunachny district election commissions of Vitsebsk as an independent journalist. Now he has to compose complaints: he hasn’t missed three sittings of the Pershamaiski and the Chyhunachny DECs already as he wasn’t invited to them.
09.11.2010 Courts keep issuing predictable verdicts
The Biaroza District
Court considered the lawsuit of the Brest regional organization of the
Belarusian Popular Front against the non-inclusion of its representatives in
precinct election commissions. The Chairperson of the court Vadzim Mazol told
the details of the consideration of the case materials. As a result the present
public managed to get some more information about the formation of PECs in the Biaroza
district.
02.11.2010 Dziarzhynsk: member of campaign team of Andrei Sannikau gets fined
On October 12 the volunteer Aliaksandr Tarnahurski was collecting signatures in support of the candidacy of Andrei Sannikau in a residential house, and when he left one of the doors, a police car arrived and policemen asked him what he had been doing. Tarnahurski said that he collected signatures, and showed his passport and the certificate of a member of Sannikau’s campaign team. Policemen detained him and drew up a report for absence of a reflector.
01.11.2010 Zhodzina police take extraordinary measures to guard to court distributor of independent press
At 11
a.m. on 27 October a police captain Zayats came to the working place of Andrei
Zubra who works in the design office of the Belarusian Automobile Plant
(BelAZ). The policeman had the violation report concerning the detention of Mr.
Zubra with 216 copies of the newspaper Tut
I Tsiaper. He demanded that Andrei should stop working and go to court
together with him.
20.10.2010 Mihas Bashura released but has to pay huge fine
An activist of the “Tell the Truth!” campaign Mihas Bashura has been fined for 500 base amounts (17.5 million rubles).
The sentence has been pronounced by Minsk Soviet District Court today. Bashura has been returned guilty but they have decided not to imprison him, informs BelaPAN.
14.10.2010 Minsk Regional Court turns down complaint of activist of 'Speak Truth'
On 14 September the judge of the Salihorsk District Court Yahor Barysenka declared the activist of the civil campaign Speak Truth Andrei Tychyna guilty of unlawful distribution of the newspaper Prauda Niakliayeva and fined him 1,225,000 rubles (about $408). The activist appealed this verdict at the Minsk Regional Court.
13.10.2010 Chief editor of ‘Vitebskiy Kurier’ fined 1,225,000 rubles
The Liozna District Court considered the administrative case against the chief editor of the socio-political newspaper Vitebskiy Kurier Viktar Ramniou who was charged with unlawful distribution of the newspaper for transporting 11,000 copies of it from a Russian printing house to Vitsebsk.
13.10.2010 Gay activist fined 700,000 rubles for street action
On 11 October the gays and lesbians of the world mark the Coming Out Day – the day when representatives of sexual minorities voluntary reveal their sexual orientation. Belarusian gays and lesbians marked this day by holding a street action in Minsk. Though they had applied for official permission on the eve of the action, the Minsk City Executive Committee didn't sanction the rally.
