News on the topic: Shchukin
04.08.2008 Vitsebsk: occupation and party affiliation of future candidates are concealed
Maryna Zdolnikava, secretary of the electoral commission of Vitsebsk village electoral district #21, refused to inform journalist Valery Shchukin about the occupation and party affiliation of the pretenders to candidates, whose initiative groups had been registered by the commission. She only told him their names and surnames. Zdolnikava explained her refusal to give more information by saying that the requested information was not allowed for publication in mass media.
12.06.2008 Authorities of Vitsebsk are reluctant to register homeless Shchukin
These days the human rights activist and oppositionist Valery Shchukin has applied to the prosecutor of Vitsebsk oblast for the third time. He again asks to register him as a homeless person. In the answers to the previous complaints the prosecutor answered that registration was impossible and it was necessary to conduct an appropriate check-up. According to Shchukin, by non-registering him as homeless the authorities violate presidential decree #413.
03.06.2008 Valery Shchukin: police torturers on the dock
The first summer month of 2008 in Vitsebsk was marked by an unheard trial (at least for the author of this article). It was the first time for the twelve years of acquaintance with the court instances when I was at a trial which was lead by the head of the court and the state accusation was represented by prosecutor in person.
06.03.2008 Valery Shchukin Banned to Go Abroad
Former deputy of the Supreme Soviet Valery Shchukin wasn’t allowed to leave Belarus. He couldn’t fly to Germany from Minsk and flew there from Russia.
13.08.2007 Police Arrest Valery Shchukin for ‘Begging’
Staff-members of Vitebsk railway department of the interior detained a well-known human rights activist Valery Schukin when he was raising funds for repaying Tatsiana Buynevich the moral damage caused to her when she was performing the responsibilities of the regional electoral commission secretary.
25.07.2007 Verdict to Shchukin Left Unchanged
Valery Shchukin tried to appeal the fine of about 590 US dollars to which he had been sentenced on 8 June for alleged insult of workers of a circuit election commission during the latest election to local deputy soviets.
24.07.2007 Vitsebsk: Prosecutor vs. HR Activist
At 10 a.m. on 24 July Vitsebsk regional cassation court considered the criminal case against the human rights activist Valery Shchukin.
25.06.2007 Judge Postpones Trial over Ales Dzeravianka
The hearing postponed for tomorrow
20.06.2007 Zmitser Lisienka Arrested for ˜Freedom to Shchukin!’ Graffiti
Kastrychnitski court of Vitsebsk found the youth activist Zmitser Lisienka guilty of ˜petty hooliganism’ and fined 310 000 rubles (about 145 US dollars).
14.06.2007 New Trials in Vitsebsk
Today in Vitsebsk two more youth activists were judged. Tatsiana Lipskaya fined Ales Dzeravianka 620 000 rubles (about 300 US dollars) under article 23.4 of the Administrative Code (disobedience to legal demands of the police).
12.06.2007 Vitsebsk: Zmiter Lisienka Fined
The activist of Belarusian Social-Democratic Party Hramada Zmitser Lisienka has been declared not guilty of violation Article 23.34 of the Administrative Violations Code for absence of crime in the act. The court stated that Zmitser hadn’t taken part in the unsanctioned picketing. However, as for the second Article, ˜insubordination to legal demands of police’ to stop picketing (Article 23.4), he was fined 620 000 rubles (about 300 US dollars) by Judge Mikhail Zubenia.
