News on the topic: Belarusian Christian Democracy
06.09.2010 Detentions of activists of Belarusian Christian Democracy
The Minsk police keep detaining the activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy who are collecting signatures for returning St. Joseph’s church to believers.
03.08.2010 BCD activist summoned for interrogation
Belarusian Christian Democracy Vitsebsk activist Ales Halavan was summoned for a confrontation with a robber who attacked him three years ago. However, the activist says a provocation is being plotted by the police.
23.07.2010 Human rights defenders: granting parole to Yauhen Yakavenka doesn’t solve his problem
On 23 July the panel of judges on criminal cases of the Homel Region Court headed by Judge Liudmila Hrynko, amnestied Yauhen Yakavenka, a member of the Belarusian Christian Democracy , conscientious objector to the military service.
22.07.2010 Christian Democrat Ales Halavan fined 875,000 rubles
An activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Ales Halavan received the court verdict from the mailman.
16.07.2010 Homel Region Court upholds acquittal of Dzmitry Smyk. Yauhen Yakavenka’s cassation complaint is pending
On 16 July, the panel of judges of the Homel Region Court considered the protest of the procuracy against the verdict of the Tsentralny District Court of Homel acquitting the Jehowah’s Witness Dzmitry Smyk of draft-dodging (Article 435 of the Criminal Code) and left the verdict standing.
14.07.2010 Protestant Pastor asks Ministry of Justice to check professional qualification of judge
On 13 July, an activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, Pastor of the Protestant Church New Generation Uladzimir Kachahur addressed the Ministry of Justice with the request to check the professional qualification of Judge Valery Ramanouski.
02.07.2010 BCD activist detained at pilgrimage in Budslau
On 1 July, an activist of the Party of Belarusian Christian Democracy, Kastus Shytal, was detained in the village of the Budslau in the Miadzel district of the Minsk region during the traditional festivities in honor of the icon of Our Lay of Budslau.
11.06.2010 Mikola Dzemidzenka is charged with posting leaflets in Vitsebsk
On 10 June, a leader of the Young Front, Mikola Dzemidzenka, was detained by policemen with assault rifles in Vitsebsk, where he come to meet with activists of the Young Front and the Party of Belarusian Christian Democracy. The activist was detained on a trolleybus, before the eyes of passengers.
10.06.2010 Counsel Hrabouski: verdict to Yakavenka was copied from prosecutor's ruling
On 9 June, lawyer Yauhen Hrabouski familiarized with a copy of the verdict to his client, conscientious objector Yauhen Yakavenka, who has been recently punished by the Tsentralny District Court of Homel with 1 year of personal restraint with direction to an open penitentiary institution.
04.06.2010 Belarusian human rights defenders informed Amnesty International about sentence to Yauhen Yakavenka
On 4 June, Tatsiana Shvets, Judge of the Tsentralny District Court of Homel, sentenced Yauhen Yakavenka, an activist of the organizing committee of the Party of Belarusian Christian Democracy, to a year of personal restraint for 'evasion from military service'. Mr. Yakavenka was released till the enforcement of the sentence under a written undertaking not to leave. The activist and his counsel, Yauhen Hrabouski, disagree with the verdict and stated they would appeal against it.
16.05.2010 Navahahradak police looking for green paint
On 13 May the Navahradak police tried to conduct searches at apartments of the local activists. They told the Protestant pastor Uladzimir Kachahur they were looking for the green paint which had been flung on a car by unknown persons.
03.05.2010 Police apologized and paid 100,000 rubles as compensation
The transport police of Babruisk offered official apologies to Taisiya Kabanchuk, activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, for the violent actions of policemen on 25 March. The woman also received from them 100,000 Belarusian rubles as a compensation for an unused railway ticket and broken glasses.
03.05.2010 Brest: police accuse BCD activist Zmitser Shurkhai of theft
On 30 April Andrei Bychyk, a police inspector of the Maskouski District Police Department of Brest, phoned to Zmitser Shurkhai, an activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, to invite him to the police department as a suspect in the theft that was witnessed by an anonymous person who had phoned to the police lately.
26.04.2010 Taisa Kabanchuk: case closed
Mahiliou Regional Transport Prosecutor’s Office ruled to terminate the criminal prosecution of Taisa Kabanchuk, leader of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Mahiliou regional office.
24.04.2010 Babruisk: Xeroxed leaflets are distributed in support of pro-governmental candidate
Aliaksandr Kazlou works at the open stock company Belshyna, the largest enterprise of Babruisk, as deputy director on ideology, and is running for the regional council of deputies at the Minskaya election constituency #10. His rival Viachaslau Sheleh, a member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, noticed suspicious agitation leaflets being spread all over the constituency.
