News for October 2007
10.10.2007 European March Organizer Yauhen Afnahel Arrested Right after Negotiations with Minsk Authorities
On 8 October Minsk Tsentralny district court sentenced the European March applicant, activist of the civil campaign For Freedom Yauhen Afnahel to 10 days of arrest. Afnahel was under observation since he left Minsk City Executive Committee where he participated in the negotiations with the city authorities on holding the European March. The oppositionist was meanly caught by the police on fabricated charges. The trial of the applicant of the European March was closed, without a lawyer.
10.10.2007 Homel: Uladzimir Katsora Sentenced to 7 Days of Jail
On 9 October in Homel the police detained Uladzimir Katsora, assistant chairperson of Homel district organization of the United Civil Party. He was taken to Chyhunachny district police department of Homel. There a report for ?petty hooliganism’ (article 17.1 of the Criminal Code) was drawn on him. Then Katsora was taken To Chyhunachny district court. Judge Kozyrau sentenced him to 7 days of jail.
10.10.2007 Police Detain Democratic Activist Aliaksandr Atroshchankau
A democratic activist Aliaksandar Atroschankau was arrested late at night on 9 October in Minsk. The police burst into his apartment on the first store through a window and searched it. Office equipment, including a computer and information materials on the European March, EU flags and the Belarusian national emblem Pahonia made of plaster were withdrawn.
08.10.2007 Liquidator of Consequence of Chernobyl Accident Gets Sacked
The worker of the Polymir public corporation Aliaksandr Ustsin was fired for ?absence from work without good excuse’.
08.10.2007 Miadzel: Police Detain Activist of ?For Freedom!’ Movement Zmitser Padreza
The police stopped Zmitser Padreza near his parents’ house and demanded to open his bag. There they found stickers dedicated to the upcoming mass action European March and took him to Miadzel district police department. There they drew on him a report of administrative violation, confiscated the stickers and took away his mobile.
08.10.2007 Minsk: Unknown Vandals Throw down Cross in Memory of Stalin’s Repressions in Kurapaty
In the morning of 8 October the visitors of the Kurapaty forest at the outskirts of Minsk could see that the cross to Belarus’ martyrs lies on the ground. It is not known who and when threw it down.
08.10.2007 Supreme Court Upholds Non-registration of ?Young Front’
The Supreme Court has considered the appeal of the Young Front council against the refusal of the Ministry of Justice to register the organization because of alleged non-compliance of its charter with the legislation in the paragraphs concerning mass actions and participation of the Belarusian citizens who live abroad.
08.10.2007 Svetlahorsk: Police Look for Mineral Fertilizers in Bookcases
In the evening of 5 October in Svetlahorsk the police searched the apartment of a local democratic activist Telman Masliukou. They said that they were looking for canisters with mineral fertilizers.
08.10.2007 Smaliavichy: Police Detain Activists of ?For Freedom!’ Movement
On 5 October in Smaliavichy the police detained nine young activists of For Freedom! movement. 12 activists handed out Svaboda newspaper and some more stood with a white-red-white flag in the town center.
05.10.2007 Employers Are Fined for Refusal to Employ Immoral Parents
The state enterprises are unable to refuse from employing the parents whose children have been alienated. That’s why such people are employed as apprentices with the wages of 160 – 180 000 rubles ($74 – 84).
05.10.2007 Vitsebsk: Court Refuses to Rehabilitate Ales Dzeravianka at University
Pershamaiski district court of Vitsebsk refused to rehabilitate a student Ales Dzeravianka at the paid form of study of the artistic-graphic faculty of Vitsebsk State University Ales Dzeravianka.
05.10.2007 Pinsk: Non-state Newspaper Miastsovy Shliakh Suspends Its Activity for Economical Reasons
The editorial office of the non-state newspaper Miastsovy Shliakh decided to suspend its activities because of a hard financial situation.
05.10.2007 Protestant Pastor Accused of Holding Unauthorized Mass Actions
Christian Human Rights House learned that Homel authorities pressurized the community of the religious association of Full Evangel Christians Living Word and its pastor Zmitser Padlobka in particular.
05.10.2007 Homel: Police Confiscate System Units from UCP Office
On 5 October in Homel the KGB workers searched the UCP office in Paleskaya Street. According to the chair of Homel city UCP office Andrei Tolchyn, the KGB workers confiscated all computer system units and Xerox machines.
05.10.2007 Siarhei Siamionau Justified
On 4 October Tsentralny district court of Homel justified Siarhei Siamionau because of absence of corpus delicti in his actions.
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