News on the topic: provocation
12.03.2014 Homel: electoral picket of UCP candidate suffers a hooligan attack
March 11, candidate for the Homel City Council at the Studentskaya election constituency, member of the United Civil Party Zmitser Karpenka, held an electoral picket.
10.03.2014 Homel City Election Commission “insistently advises” UCP candidate to withdraw from elections
Members of the Homel City Election Commission have trice asked an activist of the UCP Dzmitry Karpenka to withdraw from the elections.
04.03.2014 Insulting letters sent on behalf of Babruisk journalist
Maryna Malchanava, Babruisk journalist working with independent media, learned that letters with insults were sent on her behalf.
03.03.2014 Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich applies for safe confinement conditions
The application was caused by frequent provocations against the political prisoner. Mikalai Statkevich thinks he faces more provocations due to the deteriorating economic situation in the country and the authorities' desire to make him apply for clemency.
05.02.2014 Babruisk police “questioned” and “examined” blogger Aleh Zhalnou for more than 11 hours
Babruisk blogger Aleh Zhalnou was detained in the morning of February 4 and released only after spending 11.5 hours at the police department.
04.02.2014 Vital Rymasheuski is summoned to police
Co-chair of the organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy" Vital Rymashevski has received a subpoena to the Savetski District Police Department of Minsk for February 7.
03.02.2014 Electoral picket of Maryna Khomich attacked by people in mufti
Unidentified people hinder the picket of the speaker of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, leader of the organizing committee of the public association “Young Christian Democracy” Maryna Khomich.
13.01.2014 Unidentified persons damaged lock on the entrance door of film director Volha Mikalaichyk
Volha Mikalaichyk learned about the incident in the night of January 10, on her return from Kyiv. The woman doesn't rule out that the incident can be connected with her trip to Ukraine and speech at the Euro-Maydan.
02.12.2013 Night search held at Mikalai Statkevich's prison cell
The prisoner's wife, Maryna Adamovich, has received two letters from him after a long break. From these letters she found about the new attempts of exercising pressure on Mikalai Statkevich.
12.11.2013 Head of Homel Regional Court directs the case of Dzianis Rabianok for a new trial
It took the activist of the United Civil Party from Kalinkavichy Dzianis Rabianok seven months to succeed in protecting his rights. Back in April he was attacked by Recall that in April this year by an aggressive neighbour who sprayed pepper spray in his face.
13.10.2013 Assault as a kind of investigative actions
An activist of the Movement "For Freedom" Inha Abramava has come to the village if Tsikhinichy in the Brest region in order to spend her vacation with relatives. At about 2 p.m. on 11 October, when she was peacefully drinking tea and watching TV with her mother, 11-year-old sister and nephews (2 and 4 years old), she heard an explosion in the yard.
13.10.2013 State agencies refuse to assiste Pinsk resident in struggle against Internet offenders
The Information Ministry rejected the request of the Pinsk dweller Mikalai Klimovich to bring proceedings on the facts of the spread of false information on local websites on his behalf.
08.10.2013 Court finds UCP activist Dzianis Rabianok guilty by refrains from punishment
On 7 October the trial of the activist of the United Civil Party Dzianis Rabianok came to an end in the town of Kalinkavichy. According to the court ruling, Mr. Rabianok was found guilty of violating article 9.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Nevertheless, the administrative proceedings against him were dropped due to the expiry of the legal terms of bringing to administrative responsibility.
13.08.2013 Birthday greetings not passed to political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich
Today, 12 August, is the birthday of the political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich. As his wife, Maryna Adamovich, stated to Radio “Liberty”, the administration of the Mahiliou prison No.4 doesn't pass him many postcards with greetings.
07.08.2013 Baranavichy: prosecutor's office is required to discriminated in the case of the Milavidy festival
Baranavichy human rights defenders and social activists are outraged at the biased and hasty decision of Judge Katsiaryna Hruda. On 6 August they filed a collective complaint to the prosecutor's office in the administrative case of Viktar Syrytsa.
