News for June 2013
10.06.2013 Shchuchyn: pensioner to be tried for memorial cross
Shchuchyn police drew up a report of administrative offense against pensioner Veranika Sebastsyanovich, a member of the Union of Poes in Belarus which is unregistered by the authorities. The 82-year-old was mailed a copy of the report, in which she is charged with holding an unsanctioned rally.
10.06.2013 Rebellious Faculty of History is being liquidated at Hrodna State University
The rumors that the Faculty of History can be amalgamated with the Faculty of Tourism have circulated actively during the past two months, since the dismissal of the disgraced historian Viachaslau Shved.
10.06.2013 Political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich not allowed to read Dovlatov and Kafka
An activist of the anarchist movement Aliaksandr Frantskevich who is serving a prison term wasn't allowed to receive a parcel with books by Sergey Dovlatov and Franz Kafka.
10.06.2013 Slonim: harassment of Ivan Sheha
The administration of the Slonim district hospital, namely – the chief physician Yury Piatselski, started to exert pressure on the trauma surgeon Ivan Sheha. The hospital administration controls him from all sides and is looking forward to the end of his labor contract (27 June) to expel him from the hospital as soon as possible.
10.06.2013 General Prosecutor's Office refused to abolish warning to Tamara Siarhei
On 23 April Deputy Prosecutor General Aliaksandr exander Lashyn delivered an official warning to lawyer Tamara Siarhei about criminal responsibility under Article 193.1 of the Criminal Code for the organization of the activities of an unregistered public association – Civil Initiative against lawlessness in the courts and the prosecutor's office.
10.06.2013 Organizer of Milavidy feast summonsed to police
On 9 June civic activist Viktar Syrytsa, organizer of a festival in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Milavidy, received a notice to come to the Baranavichy District Police Department on 12 June, signed by the acting head of the Police Department, lieutenant colonel D. Maisenia.
08.06.2013 MFA representative has no wish to listen to human rights activists
Deputy head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Valiantsin Stefanovich received an answer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to his appeal on the non-implementation by Belarus of the decision of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN in the case of the head of the organization,Ales Bialiatski.
08.06.2013 Kalinkavichy District Court punishes UCP activist Dzianis Rabianok with a fine
On 7 June the hearings on the administrative case against the activist of the United Civil Party Dzianis Rabianok finished at the Kalinkavichy District Court. He was found guilty of causing bodily injury (art.9.1 CAO) and punished with a fine of 1 million rubles.
08.06.2013 Brest: marked administration hinders journalists
The incident took place on 6 June on the territory of the Brest market "Autazapchastki" ("Spare parts for cars") during a visit of the initiators of the campaign "Popular Referendum" who wanted to talk with entrepreneurs and other residents of the city.
07.06.2013 Why aren't bodies of death convicts issued to their relatives?
The mother of Uladzislau Kavaliou, sentenced to death for the bombing in the Minsk subway, seeks to be given out her son's body.
07.06.2013 Prosecutor's office issues a warning to journalist Ales Silich
A member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists received an official warning from the Smaliavichy District Prosecutor's Office for cooperation with the TV channel "Belsat".
07.06.2013 Baranavichy activists ask how the authorities will implement Views of UN Human Rights Committee
On 7 June human rights defenders and social activists Siarhei Housha, Viktar Meziaka and Viktar Syrytsa filed an appeal to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which they asked to be provided with information on measures taken by Belarus to implement the pinions of the UN Committee on Human Rights, set out on 27 July 2012.
07.06.2013 Bialynichy: defender of interests of families with many children called representative of "fifth column"
According to the chairman of the Bialynichy building society "Dvanattsats" ("Twelve") Piatro Shymbaliou, the deputy head of the Bialynichy District Executive Committee Andrei Yarashenka called him a representative of the "fifth column" during a private meeting at the executive committee.
06.06.2013 Rahachou: KGB doesn't return Dzianis Dashkevich his pneumatic gun
Social activist, coordinator of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party in Rahachou Dzianis Dashkevich still hasn't been returned his pneumatic gun, confiscated by the KGB almost 2.5 years ago, during the last presidential campaign.
06.06.2013 "Tell The Truth!" activist urgently drafted into the army after the end of the drafting campaign
The information about this was posted by another "Tell The Truth" activist, Mikhail Pashkevich. According to him, Artsiom Svirshchyk was kept in the town recruiting office in Anharskaya Street, 8. The staff of the recruiting office refused to present him the documents according to which he was drafted into the army, telling that they were for internal use only.
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