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Navapolatsk: trade union activist dismissed from Naftan plant

2011 2011-07-11T16:38:27+0300 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en https://spring96.org/files/images/sources/kanstancinau1.jpg The Human Rights Center “Viasna” The Human Rights Center “Viasna”
The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

On 15 July a search was conducted at the apartment of Yauhen Kanstantsinau. The official reason was that the police had been allegedly informed that he was selling moonshine. They confiscated some leaflets from him. On 18 July two provocateurs (Makaranka and Silitski) attacked the activist, after which he was detained by the police. He was charged under Article 17.1, “disorderly conduct”.

The trial was appointed to 20 July, but was postponed to 22 July as one of the provocateurs (who were witnesses at the trial) was drunk. Yauhen Kanstantsinau was fined 350,000 rubles.

After this, Kanstantsinau was summonsed to the office of Siarhei Brykun, head of the ideological department of Naftan, who has repeatedly pressurized activists of independent trade unions at the enterprise. Yauhen Kanstantsinau was told to quit his job on his own free will, as he was threatened to be fired for violation of an article of the Labor Code otherwise. On 5 July the activist had to do it.

Yauhen Kanstantsinau was the only independent candidate in Navapolatsk during the local election 2010, and actively worked in the electoral team of presidential candidate Uladzimir Niakliayeu during the presidential election 2011.

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