Lukashenka creates special secret service for Internet
The Operating and Analytical centre under the president is given the right to control online correspondence of Belarusians and monitor which websites they browse.
News on the topic: security services
Rechytsa: KGB ‘Checks’ Passport of Entrepreneur Leanid Nevar
Leanid Nevar has passed his passport to the passport and migration service because there were no more clean pages for visas. He paid for quick production of a new passport. They were also to transfer the valid permissive seal for foreign travel.
Methods of KGB Work with Youth on Example of Siarhei Ushakou
The deputy chair of the foreign sales department of the closed corporation Babruiskmeblia (Babruisk furniture) Siarhei Ushakou was surprised when a KGB worker Aliaksadr Kharashkevich came to him and introduced himself as the ‘curator of the plant from KGB’ (such position really exists, though in reality the plant curator is not Kharashkevich). Ushakou already knew Kharashkevich from talks with his form-mate Maksim Buinitski who had been summonsed to interrogations concerning the Young Front case this spring.
Pupils Summonsed to KGB for Visiting Free Theater
On 22 August a theatric play was staged by the Free Theater. The police detained the people who came to see it. Three under-aged spectators have been already summonsed to KGB. All of them were told that they would not be able to enter any high school and would be expelled from their secondary schools in case they visited the theater once again.
Hrodna: Maksim Hubarevich Taken to Local KGB Office
In the morning on 7 September KGB workers visited the public and political activist Maksim Hubarevich at work. They handed to him a summons to come to the KGB office for giving explanations. There wasn’t specified which explanations he was to give and why, but they did not explain anything to him.
Mahiliou: Police Detain Distributors of Youth Bulletin
At about 8 p.m. on 5 September in Leninskaya Street in Mahiliou the police detained for handing out Moladzevy biuleten UFF-BY.org (Youth Bulletin) three under aged persons: Ales Anisimau, Artsiom Davydau and Kastus Yauseyeu. 173 copies of the edition were confiscated from them.
Customs Office Checks Your Letters Abroad
Recently the deputy chair of the International Federation for Human Rights Ales Bialiatski has started receiving foreign letters with interesting seals: ‘To present for customs examination’ and ‘Transportation permitted. Minsk regional customs office’. Such attentive examination of Mr. Bialiatski’s letters is not occasional. In fact, in Belarus there exists a convenient system of control of the private correspondence of public and human rights activists and politicians.
