News on the topic: provocation
12.12.2008 Baran: total dactylography is going on
Unknown persons in civvies continue taking workers’ fingerprints at state enterprises of Orsha district. The administration of the enterprises assists them in it. If somebody asks about the legal grounds for such actions, they are shown Xerox copies of an excerpt from the law where the words ‘liable for military service’ are underlined. Those who refuse to give their fingerprints are threatened with having troubles with their bosses. In particular, such cases have been registered today at the unitary enterprise Lios in the town of Baran.
09.12.2008 Trial over Barazenka: riot policeman outrage state symbols
Opposition activists flied a flag near the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk. Hearings in the case of political prisoner Alexander Barazenka are taking place today. Rallies of solidarity with the prisoner of conscience are held in front of the building of the court for the second day. Oppositionists are holding a streamer ‘Freedom to Barazenka!’, shouting ‘Freedom to political prisoners!’, ‘Long live Belarus!’
09.12.2008 Communist secretary and BRSM ‘specialist’ Tsiukhai organizes provocation at political trial
RFE/RL found out the name of a person who took students of Belarusian Agricultural Technical University to the trial over the political prisoner and insulted Alexander Barazenka’s mother.
08.12.2008 Barysau: provocation against civil activists
Liudmila Salash, mother of the leader of Barysau organization of the BPF Party Siarhei Salash received a letter from the organized crime department of Barysau district executive committee a letter informing about instigation of a criminal case against the official of the local branch of the State Control Committee Auramenka and an entrepreneur Rybkin, after an anti-corruption letter, allegedly signed by her, the editor of the independent newspaper Borisovskiye Novosti Anatol Bukas and five more citizens, had been received by the executive committee.
08.12.2008 Leader of entrepreneurs is suspected in larceny
Anatol Shumchanka, leader of the Perspective republican NGO, is suspected of minor larceny. As A.Shumchanka told to BelaPAN, on 5 December he received a writ from Maskouski district court of Minsk ordering him to appear in court for a trial on charges in minor larceny (article 10.5 part 1 of the Administrative Code on 17 December.
01.12.2008 Criminal cases against Yury Karetnikau and Mikhail Sharamet are terminated
On 21 November the former leader of the Right Alliance Yury Karetnikau received a letter from the office of the Prosecutor General. He was informed that the criminal case against him had been terminated.
01.12.2008 Unidentified persons tear white-red-white flag at memorial action
Public figures visited Kurapaty memorial area to pay tribute to heroes of Slutsk uprising, repressed and killed under Stalin’s rule.
11.11.2008 KGB is interested in priest’s activities
On 5 November Siarhei Vashkevich, an aide of a protestant pastor Viachaslau Hancharenka at Novaye Zhyttsio church, received a writ from KGB. According to this document, he was to come to Minsk and Minsk oblast KGB department on at 2 p.m. on 10 November for giving explanations.
10.11.2008 Kletsk: police intimidate civil activist Yauhen Mikulich
An activist of For Freedom movement Yauhen Mikulich from Klyotsk has addressed the procuracy with the request to defend his family from threats and illegal actions by local policemen.
04.11.2008 Mass dactiloscopy in Masty
All workers of state enterprises in Masty have to give their finger- and palm prints. Police officers refer to an order of the head of the police department to take fingerprints from all males aged 30-55.
04.11.2008 Baranavichy: ‘Young Front’ activists are beaten on return from Dziady action
Activists of the Young Front Yury Bahdanovich and Siamion Bylinski were brutally beaten up after they returned to Baranavichy from the protest rally Dziady in Minsk.
14.10.2008 Winners of school Olympiads in chemistry are summonsed to KGB
In Minsk the winners of the school Olympiads in chemistry are summonsed to the KGB office. They are questioned in connection with the blast that had taken place on 4 July in the morning, at the celebration of the official Independence Day. Fingerprints and saliva samples are also taken from them.
13.10.2008 Even children are interrogated concerning ‘blast case’
Yauhen Herasimenka, 9-year-old citizen of the village of Verameiki, was summonsed to the police in connection with the investigation of the case concerning the blast that had taken place on 4 July in Minsk. Yauhen’s mother informed about it Raman Razhdzestvenski, journalist for Krychau newspaper Volny Horad. According to her, the police were going even to take her son’s fingerprints. The boy was to have come to the police department on 9 October, but the mother did not let him go there to save him from possible psychical traumas.
06.10.2008 Police detained a suspect in the case of Minsk blast
The police have detained a citizen of Belarus who is suspected in relation to the blast that had taken place on 4 July in the morning in Minsk. Till lately, 21-year-old Alexander Koryk has worked at the Uladpradimpart enterprise.
03.10.2008 Total dactylography for Belarus?
According to the information received by Belarusian human rights activists from different parts of the country, the law machinery officers have started the procedure of general dactilography of males under the pretext of searching for an unknown man who had blasted a self-made explosive device at the official feast in the night of 3-4 July in Minsk.
