News on the topic: criminal prosecution
17.02.2013 Homel Regional Court overturns conviction of Fair World member
Homel Regional Court overturned on 15 February the decision of Zhlobin District Court to hand down three years of suspended imprisonment to a member of the Fair World party Yauhen Basareuski.
25.01.2013 Andrei Haidukou’s mother worried about counsel’s limited access to her son
Independent media coverage of the so-called “spying case” of Andrei Haidukou gives hope for his release, says the mother of the 23-year-old operator of Navapolatsk-based “Naftan” oil refinery, accused of “treason through intelligence activities.”
23.01.2013 Andrei Haidukou meets lawyer
Andrei Haidukou, Navapolatsk pro-democratic activist arrested by the KGB, met his counsel in the KGB detention center in Minsk. According to his mother Volha, he is well, looking good, and has no health problems. Apart from that, he has received a parcel from home. Andrei also started to get newspapers, Radio Racyja reports.
18.01.2013 Police visit Khalip every day after Lukashenka's statement
Policemen again visited “absolutely free” Khalip after Lukashenka's statement.
16.01.2013 Two weeks pass, Andrei Haidukou gets no parcel
The Navapolatsk youth activist, charged with "high treason", is still kept in the pre-trial prison of the KGB. The investigator who is responsible for his case works at the Vitsebsk Region KGB Department.
12.01.2013 Yauhen Basareuski: "the court minutes were evidently fabricated"
The Zhlobin member of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World" Yauhen Basareuski, sentenced to three years of imprisonment by the Zhlobin District Court for alleged abused of office powers, received a copy of the minutes of the court sitting.
11.01.2013 "Spy" Haidukou's friend interrogated at KGB again
Since the end of December 2012, an activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Illia Bahdanau has been the second suspect in the case of "high treason", initially brought only against the Navapolatski civil activist Andrei Haidukou.
04.01.2013 "ARCHE" makes a new attempt to get registered
On 3 January a representative of the editorial board of the "ARCHE" magazine, historian Ales Pashkevich took to the Ministry of Information the documents. It is already the second attempt for the last two months to regain the license for the edition.
04.01.2013 "Spy case": counsel not allowed to visit Andrei Haidukou
Andrei Haidukou, who is accused of spying, wasn't allowed to see his lawyer in the KGB jail on 3 January.
29.12.2012 Anton Surapin’s Dream
The new film in the series "The Chronicle of Judgment Time" is about the repressed reporter-photographer Anton Surapin.
27.12.2012 New suspect in “spy” case
A witness in the spy case, Illya Bahdanau, has received the suspect status.
27.12.2012 Andrei Haidukou transferred to Minsk again
Andrei Haidukou, Navapolatsk activist accused of treason, left the pre-trial prison in Vitsebsk on 22 December. Neither the fact of the transfer nor the reasons for it was reported to the media: the lawyer learned about it when she went to meet her client.
17.12.2012 Fair World member appeals 3-year suspended sentence
Yauhen Basareuski, member of the Fair World United Party of the Left, who was sentenced to a three-year suspended prison term on December 7, is appealing the verdict at Homel Regional Court.
06.12.2012 Front Line Defenders: Tax inspection service is being used by the authorities to put additional pressure on members of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”
Taciana has previously submitted a tax declaration covering the period from 2004 to 2010 in which no irregularities were found. Ms Taciana Reviaka is the president of the Belarusian Human Rights House and a council member of the Human Rights Centre Viasna, of which Mr Ales Bialiatski is the chairman.
04.12.2012 Restraint for Andrei Haidukou left unchanged
The youth activist Andrei Haidukou, one of the founders of the “Union of Young Intellectuals”, has been kept in the pre-trial prison of the KGB in Minsk for more than three weeks. In the beginning of December he was transferred to the Vitsebsk pre-trial prison #2.
