News on the topic: administrative prosecution
19.02.2013 Lida: another trial for commemorating insurgents of 1863
Another administrative case has been initiated for honoring the memory of the heroes of the 1863 anti-Russian uprising. This time the absurd repression is being used by the authorities of Lida, Hrodna region.
18.02.2013 Trial of BCD Vitsebsk activists put off till 21 February
The trial of Stanislau Laurenau and Aliaksei Kishchuk, activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy facing administrative charges for illegal picketing in central Vitsebsk on Friday afternoon, will be resumed on 21 February, after Judge Ina Hrabouskaya met the defendants’ motion requesting a counsel.
17.02.2013 Hrodna human rights defenders don’t give up
The representatives of the human rights movement in Hrodna will appeal unfair decisions by the Courts of Lenininski District and Hrodna Region to recognize their photography posted on the Internet as an unauthorized picket, Radio Racyja reports.
13.02.2013 Minsk City Court dismisses Uladzimir Lemesh's appeal
On 12 February the Minsk City Court considered the appeal of an activist of the "European Belarus"" Uladzimir Lemesh.
08.02.2013 Head of the Mahiliou Region UCP branch appeals picket ban
On 7 February Uladzimir Shantsau filed an appropriate appeal with the Mahiliou Region Court.
08.02.2013 Ten days of arrest for a flash-mob about unemployment in Belarus
On 7 February an activist of the "Alternative" Dzmitry Silchanka was sentenced to ten days of arrest under Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, "Violation of the order of organization and holding mass events". The verdict was pronounced by the Savetski District Court of Minsk.
08.02.2013 Shklou: court reluctant to make policeman compensate court expenditures
On 6 February the Mahiliou Region Court turned down the appeal of the Shklou citizens Ina Khanrytsialiova and Serafima Yakauleva who had won at the Shklou District Court in an argument with the police officer Tadarenka. The woman asked the regional court to exact from him the money they had spent on advocatory services.
07.02.2013 Blooming socialism: milkmaids have to steel to no nourish their children
These days an ambulatory court session of the Bykhau District Court, presided by Dzmitry Hudyn, took place in the building of the Yamnitsy Village Soviet. The court considered the case of four milkmaids of the "Valadarski" collective farm who tried to steal 10 liters in the village of Yamnaye.
06.02.2013 Narauliany district: civil activists get fined for entering radiation zone
The police fined the Mazyr citizens who came to a village to help the WWII veteran who lives in an abandoned village on the radioactively polluted territory in the Naroulia district (in the north-eastern Belarus).
05.02.2013 Biaroza activist is required to pay for trial over himself
The socio-political activist from the city of Biarozauka Vitold Ashurak received a strange note from the Lida District Court. When he phoned there he was told that he needed to pay 150,000 rubles for the court expenses of the Svislach District Court on a trial over him.
04.02.2013 Vitsebskers continue complaining to UN Human Rights Committee
The United Nations Human Rights Committee registered a complaint of the Vitsebsk coordinator of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Tatsiana Seviarynets. The reason for the appeal to the HRC became the verdict of the Kastrychnitski District Court of Vitsebsk, issued 1.5 years ago, according to which she had been found guilty of violating the law on mass events and sentenced to a fine.
01.02.2013 "Solidarity chain" continued by Minsk activists
The Minsk democratic activists Aleh Lisitski and Ihar Mazheika held a photo action in support of the Hrodna human rights defenders Uladzimir Khilmanovich, Viktar Sazonau and Raman Yurhel and the Navapolatsk activists Siarhei Malashenkau and Yauhen Parchynski.
29.01.2013 Hrodna Regional Court turns down appeal by local human rights defenders
Hrodna Regional Court considered today a complaint by Hrodna human rights defenders Viktar Sazonau, Raman Yurhel and Uladzimir Khilmanovich. On January 5, Judge Vital Liatsko of Leninski District Court sentenced the activists to a fine of 500,000 each for posting a photo on the Internet, where the activists were shown holding the portraits of political prisoner Ales Bialiatski.
29.01.2013 Mikalai Ulasevich’s judicial marathon
Hrodna Regional Court considered today an appeal lodged by civil society activist Mikalai Ulasevich to contest an earlier decision of Astravets District Court, which found him guilty of an administrative offense and fined 4 mln rubles back in December 2012 as a result of as many as nine trials.
29.01.2013 Siarhei Malashenka fined 2.5 mln for solidarity with Bialiatski
Navapolatsk Town Court sentenced today local pro-democratic activist Siarhei Malashenka to a fine of 2.5 mln rubles. It was another sentence for an action staged by local activists, who following the example of Hrodna human rights defenders, took pictures with portraits of Ales Bialiatski in their hands. After the photos of Yauhen Parchynski and Siarhei Malashenka were posted online, both were charged with illegal picketing.
