News on the topic: fines
12.12.2008 Activist of ‘For Freedom’ movement Ihar Salavei gets fined
On 11 December a trial over the member of the For Freedom movement Ihar Salavei took place in Pinsk. The activist was found guilty under article 25.1 part 3 of the Administrative Code (failure to appear at the military enlistment office on a writ). Mr. Salavei could not come to the military enlistment office as he was in Poland at the specified time. Nevertheless, the court ruled that he was to be fined 35 000 rubles (about $16, minimal sum of fine).
04.12.2008 Brest: civil activists are fined for protesting
On 3 December the judge of the Leninski district of Brest Andrei Vasiliuk delivered a decision to fine each of three participants of the picket in Lenin square of Brest 70 000 rubles (about $33).
10.11.2008 Hrodna oblast: police continue harassment of Anatol Valiuk
Anatol Valiuk, political activist and head of the Belarusian Popular Front party of Svislach town (the Hrodna oblast), is persecuted by local police.
05.11.2008 Svetlahorsk: opposition activists get fined
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.
05.11.2008 Babruisk: court fines Ales Chyhir twice
On 4 November Babruisk town court sentenced Ales Chyhir to pay 900 000 rubles for repairing the car which he had already damaged during an argument with a taxi driver. However, the judge turned down the driver’s lawsuit for compensation of moral damages.
03.11.2008 Uladzimir Kazeka is fined for keeping newspapers
The administrative commission of Drahichyn district executive committee fined Uladzimir Kazeka, head of Drahichyn branch of the Belarusian Popular Front, 700 000 rubles (about $3328) for keeping copies of the newspaper Tut i Zaraz in his house. About 2 000 newspapers had been found there during a search on 31 October.
03.11.2008 Lida: ‘Young Front’ activist is threatened with distrain of property
Recently an under-age activist of Lida branch of the Young Front Raman Tunkel has been visited by officers of the court. They threatened to his parents to distrain property.
22.10.2008 Independent election observer fined 500 dollars in his absence
Yelsk regional court fined an activist of the United Democratic Party and “parliamentary elections” observer Dzyanis Rabianok for alleged violation of the law on elections. He was fined 1 mln 50 thousand Belarusian roubles. It makes about 500 dollars.
11.10.2008 Military enlistment office wants Pavel Nazdra to pay fine twice
On 9 October the member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Pavel Nazdra was summonsed to court. It is demanded that he should pay a fine, which he has already paid. He presented to the court a copy of the payment receipt, but the court ignored it.
22.07.2008 Property of Siarhei Skrabets’ parents confiscated
On July 21 Minsk city court issued a ruling to confiscate property belonging to the parents of the oppositional politician, the deputy chairman of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Siarhei Skrabets.
15.07.2008 Ales Krauchenia is fired from Baranavichy State University
A week ago the administration of Baranavichy State University issued the order for expulsion of the student Ales Krauchenia from the fifth year of the faculty of engineering. On 14 July the activist had to take his documents away from the university.
15.07.2008 Pavel Nazdra gets fined
On 14 July Pavel Nazdra, activist of the Young Front and the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, was tried on suit of the military enlistment committee of Mazyr. Nazdra was accused of not having timely informed the military enlistment committee about his retirement from a job several years ago.
10.07.2008 Brest: Yury Bakur complains to UN Human Rights Committee
Mr. Bakur decided to apply to the UN Human Rights Committee after going through all court instances of Belarus with complaints against the verdict of Maskouski district court of Brest, by which he had been fined 93 000 rubles (about $43).
02.07.2008 More ‘Young Front’ members get arrested
The activist of the Young Front from Baranavichy Zmitser Stankevich was detained in the center of the city, near Lenin Square, while he was handing out leaflets with information about the political prisoner Andrei Kim. A violation report was drawn up on Stankevich. He was accused of petty hooliganism. On 1 June the activist was tried by court and sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
02.07.2008 Journalist of Radio ‘Liberty’ fined for ‘contempt of court’
On 30 June the journalist of Radio Liberty Liubou Luniova was fined 280 000 rubles (about 130 US dollars) for contempt or court because she had answered a telephone call during the trial of an activist of the Young Democrats who had been nominated to Central Election Commission by the political council of the United Civil Party.
