09.11.2010 Courts keep issuing predictable verdicts

The Biaroza District Court considered the lawsuit of the Brest regional organization of the Belarusian Popular Front against the non-inclusion of its representatives in precinct election commissions. The Chairperson of the court Vadzim Mazol told the details of the consideration of the case materials. As a result the present public managed to get some more information about the formation of PECs in the Biaroza district.

02.11.2010 Dziarzhynsk: member of campaign team of Andrei Sannikau gets fined

On October 12 the volunteer Aliaksandr Tarnahurski was collecting signatures in support of the candidacy of Andrei Sannikau in a residential house, and when he left one of the doors, a police car arrived and policemen asked him what he had been doing. Tarnahurski said that he collected signatures, and showed his passport and the certificate of a member of Sannikau’s campaign team. Policemen detained him and drew up a report for absence of a reflector.

01.11.2010 Zhodzina police take extraordinary measures to guard to court distributor of independent press

At 11 a.m. on 27 October a police captain Zayats came to the working place of Andrei Zubra who works in the design office of the Belarusian Automobile Plant (BelAZ). The policeman had the violation report concerning the detention of Mr. Zubra with 216 copies of the newspaper Tut I Tsiaper. He demanded that Andrei should stop working and go to court together with him.

20.10.2010 Mihas Bashura released but has to pay huge fine

An activist of the “Tell the Truth!” campaign Mihas Bashura has been fined for 500 base amounts (17.5 million rubles).

The sentence has been pronounced by Minsk Soviet District Court today. Bashura has been returned guilty but they have decided not to imprison him, informs BelaPAN. 

14.10.2010 Minsk Regional Court turns down complaint of activist of 'Speak Truth'

On 14 September the judge of the Salihorsk District Court Yahor Barysenka declared the activist of the civil campaign Speak Truth Andrei Tychyna guilty of unlawful distribution of the newspaper Prauda Niakliayeva and fined him 1,225,000 rubles (about $408). The activist appealed this verdict at the Minsk Regional Court.

13.10.2010 Chief editor of ‘Vitebskiy Kurier’ fined 1,225,000 rubles

The Liozna District Court considered the administrative case against the chief editor of the socio-political newspaper Vitebskiy Kurier Viktar Ramniou who was charged with unlawful distribution of the newspaper for transporting 11,000 copies of it from a Russian printing house to Vitsebsk.

13.10.2010 Gay activist fined 700,000 rubles for street action

On 11 October the gays and lesbians of the world mark the Coming Out Day – the day when representatives of sexual minorities voluntary reveal their sexual orientation. Belarusian gays and lesbians marked this day by holding a street action in Minsk. Though they had applied for official permission on the eve of the action, the Minsk City Executive Committee didn't sanction the rally.

11.10.2010 Minsk: activist of electoral team of Andrei Sannikau gets fined

On 11 October the Zavadski District Court of Minsk fined Illia Shcharbinski for violation of Article 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Violations, ‘disorderly conduct’. The activist had been detained on 10 October, while going to his electoral picket with a flag of the civil campaign European Belarus (that is headed by Andrei Sannikau).

08.10.2010 Mahiliou Regional Court turned down lawsuit of ‘Fair World’

On 7 October the judge of the Mahiliou Regional Court Sviatlana Stalmakhova considered the lawsuit of the Belarusian Leftist Party Fair World concerning the non-inclusion of its representative Anatol Zauyalau in the Mahiliou Regional Election Commission.

01.10.2010 Valery Shchukin fined 1 mln rubles

On 1 October the Leninski District Court of Mahiliou fined the human rights defender Valery Shchukin 1,050,000 rubles. Judge Stanislau Shenderovich found him guilty of producing, trafficking and distributing printed materials that had been produced with violation of the Belarusian legislation.

01.10.2010 Biaroza citizens appeal against non-inclusion in Biaroza District Electoral Commission

The residents of Biaroza Tamara Schapiotkina and Siarhei Rusetski filed a lawsuit to the Biaroza District Court. They ask to consider the decision of the Presidium of the Biaroza District Council of Deputies and the Biaroza District Executive Committee about the establishment of the Biaroza District Electoral Commission on elections of President of the Republic of Belarus illegal and to include them in the commission.

27.09.2010 Nash Dom activist Shatsikava faces civil charges

Khrystsina Shatsikava, activist of the Nash Dom Mahiliou human rights civil campaign, has been charged with violating the procedures of distributing periodicals, after she was detained by Hrodna police in one of the city’s shops on 18 September.

20.09.2010 1,750,000 fine for white-red-white flag

Today, on 20 September, Judge Maryna Damnenka of Homel Tsentralny Court fined Ivan Zaitsau, activist of the Young Belarus opposition movement, BYR 1,750,000 for alleged disorderly conduct and failure to obey the police.

20.09.2010 Participants of picket for Belarusian language in Hrodna to stand trial

Uladzimir Khilmanovich and Ales Astrouski demanded the authorities to grant a constitutional right to their children to study in Belarusian.

On September 23 the court of Leninski district of Hrodna is to try the administrative case against Uladzimir Khilmanovich, who together with the family of Professor Ales Astrouski staged a picket in front of the building of the city executive committee on September 2.

15.09.2010 Fine for hanging memorial board in honor of Larysa Heniyush

On 27 July 2010 Mikalai Kavalchuk installed a memorial board in honor of the 100th anniversary of the poet Larysa Heniyush on the wall of the house where she had been born (the house had been transported from the hamlet of Zhlobautsy to Vaukavysk). However, the memorial board was removed by the police on order of the Vaukavysk District Executive Committee and the activist was accused of having installed the memorial board without an official permission.