Police summon founders of the national youth LGBT-organization in Minsk, Baranavichy, Brest, Mahiliou and Vitsebsk
On 15 January the department on drugs
control and counteraction to human traffic of the police bureau of
the Brest City Executive Committee summoned two founders of the
Belarutian national youth civil association "Lambda" (the
label under which "GayBelarus" is trying to legalize its
activities for the second time), born in 1991 and 1993. The
constituent assembly of the organization took place in Minsk on 8
December 2012.
On 16 January the department of drug control
and counteraction to human traffic summonsed for talks eight founders
of the national LGBT-organization in Baranavichy, Mahiliou, Minsk and
Vitsebsk.
In Brest two boys received telephone invitations on
15 January. The police promised to tell them the reasons at the
police station. One of them was subsequently said that the reason was
a homosexual rape in the city, and the other – that somebody had
allegedly proposed oral sex to an under-aged boy not far from his
place of work.
The main topic of the talks were the activities
of the human rights LGBT-organization, the constituent documents of
which had been passed to the Ministry of Justice of Belarus several
weeks ago with the aim to get registered with the state. A special
interest was paid to the person of the Belarusian LGBT activist
Siarhei Androsenka, his partner Aliaksei Kulik and the Zhodzina LGBT
activist Barysu Sahaidarau. Moreover, the police asked questions
about the private life of the activists: how they became homosexuals,
what roles they played, what were the places of gathering of
homosexuals in Minsk and Brest.
The police evidently violated
the right to privacy. Moreover, the summonsed people weren't told
anything about their legal status: whether they were suspects,
accused or witnesses.
Bear in mind that in the night of 12-13
the department of drugs control and counteraction to human traffic
raided an LGBT party in the Vitsebsk club "21st century".
The day before an analogical raid was conducted in the Minsk club
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