News for 14 May 2008
14.05.2008 Homel: tax inspection harasses Kastus Zhukouski
Today Tsentralny district court of Homel has started the trial on the suit of the district tax inspection for forced exaction of 2 115 000 rubles (about 993 US dollars) of taxes from the local activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Kastus Zhukouski.
14.05.2008 Detentions of youth activists in Polatsk
14 May, at 7.30 p.m., an action in support of political prisoners took place in Polatsk. Members of the Young Front and the Belarusian Christian Democracy held a banner Freedom to Political Prisoners. The action lasted for several minutes only. Then its participants were detained and guarded to a police department. Among them there is Mikalai Dzemidzenka Siarhei Hlinski, Siarhei Karalionak, Ales Krutkin, Zmitser Sakalou and Mikhas (surname not known yet).
14.05.2008 Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka fined
The judge of Chyhunachny district court of Vitsebsk Uladzislau Shykarou ruled to fine the activist of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian People’s Front Siarhei Kavalenka under part 3 of Article 23.34 of the Administrative Code (violation of the rules for organizing and holding mass actions) for participation in a peaceful mass action on 26 April, dedicated to an anniversary of Chernobyl accident.
14.05.2008 Police draw report against Viktar Sazonau
14 May in Hrodna the police majors Piatro Lenets and Ivan Vechar paid a visit to the human rights activist Viktar Sazonau. They drew on him a violation report under article 23.34 of the Administrative Code (violation of the rules for organizing or holding mass action) for participation in the concert of the Polish band Lombard in Hrodna.
14.05.2008 Disabled pensioner ‘congratulated’ on Victory Day
On the eve of 9 May, the Victory Day, the resident of Homel Andrei Hramyka received a peculiar ‘congratulation’. He is disabled since childhood as a result of a wound connected with the consequences of World War II. The court fined him 140 000 rubles (about 68 US dollars) in absentia for alleged insult of the neighbors who were smoking on the stair platform.
14.05.2008 Minsk: court turns down complaint of beaten driver
13 May the judge of Minsk city court Siarhei Khrypach turned down the cassation complaint of the citizen of Russian Sergey Ostrovsky against a verdict of Tsentralny district court of Minsk.
14.05.2008 Artists are squeezed out of their studios
The authorities have started an economical assault on artists by increasing the rent 10 times.
14.05.2008 Mahiliou: court mocks at democratic activists
Leninski district court of Mahiliou has turned down a complaint that had been filed by Alexander Irkho and Alexander Silkou, activists of the unregistered Freedom and Progress Party (FPP).
14.05.2008 Hrodna: another administrative case for concert
An administrative report under article 23.34 (active participation in unauthorized action) has been composed today against the chairman of Hrodna oblast branch of the United Civil Party (UCP) Yury Istomin. The police qualified as an unauthorized action the concert of a well-known Polish band Lombard in Hrodna.
14.05.2008 Miron hangs out another flag
The legendary Miron has carried out another action in Vitsebsk. He hanged out a white-red-white flag on the roof of a 16-storeyed house, one of the highest buildings in the city.
14.05.2008 Police get interested in Marachkin’s art
13 May the artist Aliaksei Marachkin was summonsed to Tsentralny district police department of Minsk.
14.05.2008 White-red-white flags over Minsk
White-red-white national flags appeared in Minsk and other Belarusians towns on the 13th anniversary of referendum 1995, when the national symbols were forbidden.
14.05.2008 Last four figurants of the ‘case of fourteen’ to be tried 23 May
23 May the trial in the case of participants of the protest rally of market vendors is to continue in the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk.
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