News on the topic: administrative prosecution
25.11.2011 Humiliated activist fined
On 24 November, Mahiliou court fined Belarusian Popular Front activist Andrei Padaliak BYR 525,000 for alleged using of foul language on the previous evening.
23.11.2011 Valyantsin Stefanovich has two trials scheduled for December 2
Both trials will be held in the Partyzanski district court of Minsk.
22.11.2011 People’s Assembly organizers appeal administrative sentences
Uladzimir Shantsau, Mahiliou leader of the United Civil Party, has lodged an appeal against a verdict by Judge Aksana Ratnikava of Leninski District Court who fined the activist BYR 1.4 mln for involvement in the organization of the People’s Assembly.
22.11.2011 Hrodna: Trials in absentia without opportunity to file appeals
Court in Hrodna began to use a new practice – hearing administrative cases in absentia.
21.11.2011 More Vitsebsk executive officials authorized to open administrative cases
Vitsebsk regional executive committee has released a decree which enables a wide range of local executive officials to initiate administrative trials.
21.11.2011 Brest resident appeals “silent protest” fine
Brest resident Taras Berazhnoi has lodged a complaint with the Supreme Court against a fine for alleged involvement in a “silent protest” on 29 June.
18.11.2011 Stefanovich tax trial to start on 2 December
The civil charges brought against Viasna deputy chair Valiantsin Stefanovich for alleged tax violations will be heard by Minsk Partyzanski District Court on 2 December.
18.11.2011 Protesters convicted of prayer
On 17 November, Minsk Tsentralny District Court heard the administrative charges brought against Aliaksandr Makayeu and Aliaksandr Kalyanau for staging a protest in Kastrychnitskaya Square on 16 November.
17.11.2011 Brest court upholds verdict to local human rights defender
On 17 November, Brest Regional Court dismissed an appeal by local human rights defender Raman Kisliak against a BYR 350,000 fine for staging a picket of solidarity with the imprisoned Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski on 16 October.
15.11.2011 Trial on Filip Kirdun’s case to continue at 9 a.m. on 16 November
The trial of Filip Kirdun, charged with the use of obscene language towards police officers, continued today at the Frunzenski District Court of Minsk. Judge Liudmila Lapo agreed to question policemen Aliaksandr Birchanka and Siarhei Dounar, who had taken fingerprints from the defendant. They stated that he had called them “Lukashenka’s lackeys”, and police officer Sviatlana Kunitskaya, who is in charge of the procedure of dactylography in the Frunzenski District Police Department of Minsk, stated that Filip’s parents had paid a visit to the police department on 14 November and threatened to her.
15.11.2011 Babruisk: police warn Alena Toustsik
Alena Toustsik, one of the detained at the commemorative action held on 2 November, has been invited to a meeting with the police during two last days. The woman refused to meet, as her 2.5-year-old child was ill with bronchitis.
15.11.2011 Minsk: imprisonment for People’s Assembly
Aliaksandr Piatnitski was detained after the end of the People’s Assembly held in Minsk on 12 November. He was charged with insubordination to lawful demands of police officers (Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Violations) and sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
15.11.2011 Homel: participant of People’s Assembly gets dismissed from work
Train driver and public activist Dzmitry Karashkou was fired from the Homel Railcar Repair Plant on 14 November.
14.11.2011 Haradok: Leanid Autukhou sues road police
Haradok-based political activist Leanid Autukhou has been deprived of his driver's license for a year and fined 280,000 rubles. He considers the punishment as politically motivated, because he had been stopped by a road policeman while returning from the People's Assembly in Vitsebsk on 8 October, and accused of a violation of traffic rules.
14.11.2011 Vitsebsk: Tatsiana Seviarynets treated as an old offender already
On 8 October Tatsiana Seviarynets, Vitsebsk coordinator of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, held the People's Assembly in Vitsebsk. On 26 October the police charged her with the “organization of an unauthorized mass event”. Two weeks later they also recalled that she had committed this “offense” repeatedly. That's why on 11 November they came to her home in order to draw a new violation report.
