News on the topic: administrative prosecution
11.11.2011 Zinaida Mikhniuk fined 70,000 rubles
On 11 November the Maskouski District Court of Brest considered the criminal case against Zinaida Mikhniuk, who had been detained on 8 October, the day when the People's Assembly was held.
11.11.2011 Babruisk: organizer of People's Assembly sentenced to three days of arrest
The Babruisk City Court sentenced Kanstantsin Loktseu, Chairman of the organizing committee of the People's Assembly in Babruisk, to three days of arrest. Judge Natallia Sheheda found him guilty of participation in the “unauthorized action held on 8 October” (the previous People's Assembly).
11.11.2011 Vitsebsk Region Court again upholds ban on pickets
On 10 November the Vitsebsk Region Court considered the cassation appeal of human rights defender Leanid Svetsik against the verdict of the Chairman of the Chyhunachny District Court of Vitsebsk, Raman Dziahoda, upholding the verdict of the Chyhunachny District Court by which a picket ban issued to Mr. Svetsik by the Vitsebsk Chyhunachny District Executive Committee had been declared lawful.
11.11.2011 Baranavichy: organizers of People's Assembly get fined
On 11 November the Baranavichy District and City Court finished considering the administrative cases against Viktar Meziak and Viktar Syrytsa, who were charged under Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violations of the order of conduct of mass events) for holding a People's Assembly on 8 October.
11.11.2011 Hrodna: it takes court just ten seconds!
That's how much time Mikalai Rachynski, Chairman of the Hrodna Region Court, needed to turn down the appeal of civil activist Ales Masiuk against the verdict of the Slonim District Court according to which he had been sentenced to pay a fine of 175,000 rubles for taking part in the People's Assembly in Slonim on 8 October.
10.11.2011 Valiantsin Stefanovich solicits for postponement of trial
The administrative trial of human rights defender Valiantsin Stefanovich concerning the exaction of unpaid taxes was to have started on 15 November at the Partyzanski District Court of Minsk. However, Valiantsin cannot appear at court that day for family reasons. That’s why he solicited for postponement of the hearings.
09.11.2011 Homel: Vasil Paliakou detained till trial
Vasil Paliakou, a member of the organizing committee of the People's Assembly in Homel, was detained after 4 p.m. on 8 November. At first he was taken to the Savetski District Police Department, and then – to a pre-trial detention center. He managed to inform his friends that he was charged under Article 23.34 of the Cofe of Administrative Offenses, “violation of the order of holding mass events”.
09.11.2011 Dziarzhynsk: civil activist summonsed to police in connection with 26 October action
Aliaksandr Tarnahurski, a civil activist from Dziarzhynsk, received a summon to police for 10 November. The summon concerns the action which took place on 26 October, when portraits of political prisoners were posted in the Minsk metor. The police allegedly has information about his participation in it.
08.11.2011 Uladzimir Yukho sentenced to 7 days of arrest
Political activist Uladzimir Yukho was detained in Loshytsa suburb in Minsk during a commemorative procession in honor of victims of Stalin's repressions on 7 November.
08.11.2011 Babruisk: two more trials for People's Assembly
Babruisk judges decided not to waste time and try two participants of the People's Assembly on 9 November. Bear in mind that last week Viktar Buzinayeu, a member of the organizing committe of the People's Assembly, was sentenced to 10 days of arrest. Another participant of the assembly, Halina Smirnova, who came to the trial as a witness, was issued a summons to court right at the court hall. The trial was appointed at 11.30 on 9 November. The woman also received another summons by mail.
08.11.2011 Participants of 7 November anti-Communist action near Lenin monument sentenced to arrest
On 8 November the Maskouski District Court of Minsk tried the activists of the “Young Front” Mikhail Muski, Siarhei Paval and Raman Vasiliieu who had thrown eggs at the monument to Lenin on Nezalezhnasts Square in Minsk during the 7 November action which was held by communists to honor an anniversary of the October revolution.
08.11.2011 Teleportation of accusation witness in Homel
Civil activist Ihar Sluchak received a response from the Chairowan of the Homel Regional Court, Liudmila Mikhalkova, to his complaint. The young man drew her attention to the fact that he had been found a delinquent on the testimony of a witness who, according to the documents had been a few kilometers away from the scene at the time of the offense. However, Mikhalkova paid no attention to it, thus admitting that the witness has the talent of teleportation.
07.11.2011 Beshankovichy: teacher to be tried for distributing self-made newspaper
On 5 November teacher Heorhi Stankevich was detained in Beshankovichy while transporting self-made newspaper “Kryvinka” to regular readers by bicycle. The newspaper isn't issued periodically, as the teacher publishes it at his own expense, and has a small circulation – 290 copies.
07.11.2011 Baranavichy: seventh picket ban for Ryhor Hryk
Baranavichy-based civil activist Ryhor Hryk intended to hold a picket on 12 November in order to inform the population about the failure of the police and the local authorities to abide by requirements of the Law “On National and Local Assemblies” (the matter is that civil activists Siarhei Auchynnikau, Anzhela Kambalava, Viktar Meziak and Viktar Tsiapin had been fined for holding an assembly, which was considered as a “mass event”).
07.11.2011 Baranavichy: Viktar Syrytsa to be tried for People's Assembly
On 4 November Pavel Kulhavik, deputy chairman of the public order and prophylaxis department, drew up a report on Viktar Syrytsa, Chairman of the Baranavichy branch of the movement “For Freedom!”.
