News on the topic: criminal prosecution
14.12.2010 Minsk Procuracy: the information of the human rights defender has been noted and will be taken into account during the prosecutorial supervision of the ‘case of anarchists’
The Minsk City Procuracy promised human rights defender Ales Bialiatski to take into account the information submitted by him concerning the criminal cases of activists of anarchist and antifascist movements. However, he had to apply to the prosecutor to make the procuracy answer on the merits of his initial address.
09.12.2010 Another criminal case brought against Charter'97?
A journalist of charter97.org website Natallia Radzina was told about that by the head of the investigation department of the Minsk City Procuracy Siarhei Ivanou.
08.12.2010 Ihar Alinevich has confrontations and Mikalai Dziadok – a high temperature
Investigative activities are conducted towards an activist of the Belarusian anarchist movement Ihar Alinevich who was detained on 28 November. According to our information, the investigation has held three confrontations with his participation so far.
06.12.2010 Unauthorized picket in the center of Minsk
On 6 December a group of women who disagree with the court verdicts on the civil and criminal that concern them and their relatives held an unauthorized picket in Svabody Square in Minsk.
01.12.2010 Ihar Alinevich is kept in KGB prison
Ihar's friends had been looking for him in all the police departments and detention centers of Moscow for more than two days. However, Russian law-enforcement agencies denied there was such an arrestee and stated they hadn’t seized Alinevich. The friends managed to find Ihar Alinevich's relatives in Belarus only in the evening on 30 November. Ihar's relatives informed he was detained in Minsk.
23.11.2010 Salihorsk prosecutor extends detention of anarchist Frantskevich
Salihorsk prosecuting authorities extended the detention of Aliaksandr Frantskevich, activist of the Belarusian anarchist movement, charged with attack on the town police department building back in May 2010.
12.11.2010 Another person charged of assaults on Russian Embassy and bank
Maksim Vetkin, who had been detained on 4 November in Minsk, was presented charges in the assault on the Embassy of the Russian Federation on 30 August and the assault on the Belarusbank in the night of 30 April – 1 May. Thus, Maksim Vetkin became the third person charged of the hooligan assaults that had been committed this year in Salihorsk and different parts of Minsk.
10.11.2010 Mikalai Dziadok holds on
The investigation into the criminal case against the student of the European Humanities University Mikalai Dziadok was extended for six months, and the term of his keeping in custody – for five months. So far Mikalai Dziadok has been given charges under Article 339, part 2 – ‘hooligan actions conducted by a group of individuals’.
27.10.2010 EHU student Dziadok still in prison
On 26 October Minsk City Court ruled to extend detention of a European Humanities University student Mikalai Dziadok, previously arrested on suspicion of attacking the Russian Embassy in Minsk back in August 2010. On 1 October, he was charged with attacking the General Headquarters of the Ministry of Defense.
21.10.2010 Anarchist activist Sliusar still in prison
Babruisk prosecuting authorities have extended detention of Siarhei Sliusar, activist of the anarchist movement, arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack on the town’s KGB building back on 16 October.
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.
20.10.2010 Siarhei Sliusar detained for Molotov cocktails
On 17 October, Babruisk police detained local activist of the Belarusian anarchist movement Siarhei Sliusar on suspicion of involvement in the attack on the town’s KGB department back on 16 October, when two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the building by unknown persons.
19.10.2010 Trial against "Tell the Truth" activist Mikhas Bashura resumed
The court trial against Mikhas Bashura will be resumed on October18 in Savetski district court of Minsk. According to Radio Liberty, the activist of the "Tell the Truth" campaign is under trial for alleged repeated document forgery.
19.10.2010 Lawyer: There's no corpus delicti in Bashura's case
The certificate allegedly forged by Mikhas Bashura did not influence the bank's decision on whether to provide him credit. This was informed today in court by the "Belarusbank" employee Iryna Shytsik. She said the salaries of other guarantors were big enough to receive credit.
15.10.2010 Mikhail Bashura to be given new charges
The representative of the accusation Halina Koneva asked the court to give her some time to prepare a new accusation. As a result, the judge of the Savetski District Court of Minsk Kiryl Palupekh announced a break in the proceedings till 10 a.m. on 18 October.
