Activist of United Civil Party gets warned
On 11 January the Brest Region Prosecutor's Office issued a UCP
activist Alina Litvinchuk with an official warning about the
inadmissibility of illegal work for foreign mass media.
She
was charged with publication of articles by Alisa Paul on the website
of Radio "Racyja", though the deputy prosecutor failed to
explain what relation Alina Litvinchuk had to them, informs the UCP
press-service.
Alina did not receive an official summons to
the prosecutor's office, but decided to pay a visit to it in order to
find out why she had been persecuted by people in mufti who also
questioned her neighbors and the police had been trying to burst in
her apartment. Secondly, the demand to appear at the prosecutor's
office was passed to her yesterday through the editor of the
"Brestsiy Kuryer" newspaper, Mikalai Aliaksandrau.
The
deputy prosecutor A. Tochka read her the official warning about the
impossibility of work for foreign mass media without official
accreditation.
What concerns the telephone calls from unknown
telephone numbers to the telephones of Alina and her relatives,
questioning of neighbors by people in mufti, etc., the deputy
prosecutor advised her to apply to the police, though earlier the
police had told her that such requests were to be filed to the
prosecutor's office.
"The assistant prosecutor Bakharava
showed me several print-outs from the website and a copy of the
warning as the case materials," says Alina Litvinchuk. "There
was no file, no number of the case – nothing. I wrote that I
disagreed with the warning."
The activist filed an appeal
against the warning to the prosecutor's office with the assistance of
the Belarusian Association of Journalists. Moreover, she files an
appeal against the law machinery organs which had pressurized her
family during one month, phoning to her and her relatives, the police
who tried to burst in her apartment and the people in mufti, who
questioned her neighbors".
