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Homel: KGB returns confiscated equipment in disabled state

2011 2011-08-01T16:45:08+0300 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en https://spring96.org/files/images/sources/kgbrb.jpg The Human Rights Center “Viasna” The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

During the presidential election 2011 Aleh Karbalevich, a member of the Belarusian Popular Front Party from Rechytsa, worked in the electoral teams of the democratic candidates Ryhor Kastusiou and Uladzimir Niakliayeu.

On 15 March 2011 officers of the Homel KGB Department conducted a search in his house in the village of Perasviatoye in the Rechytsa district. They confiscated the system unit of his computer, a risograph, a small camera for video observance, brochures about the results of the monitoring of the presidential election by the Belarusian Helsinki Committee and Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in 2009, published by the Human Rights Center Viasna.

On 29 July the KGB returned the risograph to the owner. However, it doesn't work any more. When Mr. Karbalevich told the officers about it, captain Kolasau (who had ordered the search) stated that they could bear no responsibility for it as far as the state of the risograph hadn't been checked during the confiscation.

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