More victims of foreign travel restrictions
Zhanna Litvina, Mikhail Yanchuk and
Andrei Bandarenka were not allowed to leave Belarus.
According to “Salidarnasts”, border guards told Zhana Litvina she was on the list of persons temporarily restricted from
leaving the country. The head of the Belarusian Association of Journalists
(BAJ) got an “exit denied” stamp in her passport. Litvina was told it was a
decision by police.
Human rights activist Andrei Bandarenka
was ordered to get off the train at night as he was travelling from Minsk to
Warsaw. No explanations were given to him.
BelSat journalist Mikhail Yanchuk
was not allowed to leave Belarus on 15 March.
A number of Belarusian public and political activists were banned from leaving
Belarus in the last days.
On 13 March human rights defender Aleh Hulak paid a visit to the Migration and
citizenship department of Frunzenski district of Minsk and received a
certificate confirming the foreign travel restrictions to him.
Aleh Hulak is banned from leaving Belarus
on the request of the Justice Ministry in connection with a civil suit. The
travel ban is substantiated by the fact that on 5 March the Justice Ministry
allegedly applied for banning travel for him, as a civil suit had been filed
against Aleh Hulak.
“I have not heard about any civil suits. Moreover, I have just returned from
the Justice Ministry, and there are no such materials on its database. Under
the law the procedure looks in the following way: the court issues a travel ban
as a civil suit exists. This information is passed through the Justice Ministry
to the Migration and Citizenship department. But there is no information about
any civil suits in the Justice Ministry,” Aleh Hulak said to “Belarusian
Partisan”.
