11.06.2010 Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka's brother fined as well

Viktar Kalbun, Judge of the Pershamaiski District Court of Vitsebsk, found Vital Kavalenka guilty of 'disorderly conduct'. Vital was fined the same sum of money as his brother, 105,000 Belarusian rubles (about $33).

10.06.2010 Ales Ramanovich to be tried

On 9 June, Ales Ramanovich, Pinsk activist of the Belarusian Popular Front Party and the movement For Freedom, was interrogated for about 1.5 hours by a police inspector Andrei Rusin. The KGB officer, who watched the activist during the last several days, was present at the interrogation as well.

09.06.2010 Provost of Homel university demands 45 mln rubles from 'Narodnaya Volia'

The trial proceedings in the case at the suit of Syiarhei Khanenia, provost of Homel State University, are scheduled for June 9 at 2.30 p.m.

08.06.2010 Siarhei Kavalenka fined for ‘disorderly conduct’

Judge of the the Pershamaiski District Court of Vitsebsk, Viktar Kolbun found activist Siarhei Kavalenka guilty of disorderly conduct.

04.06.2010 Minsk Region Court supports 'Boiki Kletsk' editor

The administrative case against the Kletsk activist, editor of the Boiki Kletsk newspaper Siarhei Panamarou, has been directed for review.

25.05.2010 Syarhei Kavalenka fined 140,000 Br

Judge of Chyhunachny district of VItsebsk Uladzislau Shikarau has fined a democratic activist Syarhei Kavalenka 140,000 Br.

20.05.2010 Young Front Homel activist fined

Anton Nazaranka, Homel activist of the Young Front unregistered youth movement, was fined BYR 600,000 for posting the organization’s posters a month ago, the Young Front’s press-service reports.

17.05.2010 Detained participants of gay parade in Minsk got fines

The participants of the rally against homophobia are found guilty of organizing an unauthorized action.

Seven participants of the Slavic gay parade, including members of the organizing committee of St Petersburg gay parade Dzmitry Milkov and Aleksandr Sheremetyev, detained in Minsk last Saturday have been released in the Pershamaiski district court, the website GayRussia.Ru informs.

16.05.2010 Fines for white-red-white flags

Simultaneously with the trial of the criminal case against Siarhei Kavalenka in Vitsebsk, the Kastrychnitski District Court of Minsk considered the administrative cases against the Young Front activists Yulyan Misiukeivch and Uladzimir Yaromenka.

12.05.2010 Trials for ‘obscene language’

On 12 May the Leninski District Court of Minsk tried the democratic activists who had been detained by police after the action of solidarity with the political prisoners Uladzimir Autukhovich, Uladzimir Asipenka and Mikhail Kazlou near the Supreme Court.

11.05.2010 Aliaksandr Kazulin and other detainees to be tried for ‘obscene language’ on 12 May

On 12 May, the Leninski District Court will consider the administrative cases against the people who were detained after the end of the action of solidarity with the political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich that was held near the building of the Supreme Court on 6 May.

11.05.2010 Vitsebsk: Kavalenka brothers released from jail

On 10 May morning, the Vitsebsk activists Siarhei and Vital Kavalenkas were released from the pre-trial prison where they were kept for a day.

09.05.2010 Fines for action in memory of Zakharanka

A street action dated to the 11th anniversary of the abduction of Yury Zakharanka, a former Interior Minister and opposition politician, was held by members of the United Civil Party at 3 p.m. on 7 May.

06.05.2010 Distribution of ’Vitebskiy Kuryer’ in Belarus is still banned

The private Unitarian trading enterprise Vitebskiy Korund was left without a license for distribution of periodicals. On 6 May, the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus left standing the verdicts of the Vitsebsk Regional Economic Courrt and the cassation instances and eo ipso upheld the license denial.

06.05.2010 Viktar Ramniou again fined for ‘Vitebskiy Kuryer’

Valiantsina Kismiaroshkina, Judge of the Pershamaiski District Court of Vitsebsk, fined Viktar Ramniou, the founder of the Vitebskiy Kuryer newspaper, 1, 050 000 rubles (about $353) for trafficking 53 copies of the newspaper that had been found in his car by the police.