Svetlahorsk: opposition activists get fined
05.11.2008.
Tags: Belarusian Popular Front, detentions, mass media, United Civil Party, fines, Party of Communists Belarusian, elections-2008.
Source: Belarusian Helsinki Committee.
Svetlahorsk town court fined 1.4 million rubles (about $650) Sviatlana Mikhalchanka, the leader of Salihorsk district organization of the Party of Communists Belarusian, and Viktar Akhramchuk and Siarhei Shavialenka, activists of the Belarusian Popular Front Party and the United Civil Party.
The matter is that on 27 October the police had detained a car by which the oppositionists were driving and confiscated from them copies of the Tovarishch newspaper (which has the state registration), pre-electoral posters of the candidate Siarhei Daineka and several copies of the unregistered editions Glotok Vozdukha and Vybory/8.
The activists were detained and charged with distribution of editions containing no imprint. Though the police failed to prove their accusations (only distribution of Tovarishch was proved), the court delivered an accusative verdict.
See also
08.01.2009 Baranavichy: UCP activist got fired
08.01.2009 Minsk: printing house refuses to print Borisovskiye Novosti
08.01.2009 Hrodna: detention and search of Uladzimir Khilmanovich and Viktar Sazonau
17.12.2008 BPF party activist detained, all information materials seized
16.12.2008 Five youth activists detained in Minsk
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