News on the topic: political parties & movements
24.01.2013 BCD Navapolatsk activists stand trial for taking pictures with Bialiatski’s portrait (updated)
Yauhen Parchynski and Siarhei Malashonak, Navapolatsk activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, are expected to stand trial today for illegal picketing. Local police says the evidence of the offense are the photos showing the activists with Ales Bialiatski’s portrait posted on a number of independent sites. Thus, the situation repeats that of Hrodna, where human rights defenders stood trial and were fined for doing the same thing.
24.01.2013 United Civic Party leader appeals fine to Minsk City Court
Anatol Lyabedzka, leader of the United Civic Party (UCP), on Wednesday filed an appeal with the Minsk City Court against a fine imposed on him by a district court.
23.01.2013 Fair World Zhlobin members appeal picket ban at UN Human Rights Committee
The UN Human Rights Committee has accepted a joint complaint by Zhlobin members of the party “Fair World” submitted to challenge a decision by the local executive committee to ban a number of pickets in 2012. This was announced by the head of the party’s district office Valery Rybchanka.
22.01.2013 BPF Vitsebsk members complain to Prosecutor's Office of city architect chief
The statement submitted by local office of the Belarusian Popular Front deals with the scheduled construction of the so-called Palace of Ceremonies. The decision to build it in the historical center is deemed as illegal by the BPF activists. And they see it as a violation of the rights of citizens, since such projects are not submitted for public discussion, and made “behind the scenes and in a manner far from being transparent.”
21.01.2013 Pressure increased on Musski
Mikhail Musski is doing the involuntary military service in the military unit No 44540 in Lapichy.
17.01.2013 Liabedzka charged for giving out leaflets
The leader of the United Civic Party received a note saying that he violated the legislation in regards to organizing mass events when he was giving out the party’s brochures in the street.
12.01.2013 Customs officers ignore appeal of "Fair World" member Ilona Tkachova
The Zhlobin member of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World" Ilona Tkachova hasn't received any answer to her appeal to the head of the border crossing point "Novaya Huta" concerning the detention of her family on 6 December 2012 and the confiscation of her laptop and photo camera.
12.01.2013 Yauhen Basareuski: "the court minutes were evidently fabricated"
The Zhlobin member of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World" Yauhen Basareuski, sentenced to three years of imprisonment by the Zhlobin District Court for alleged abused of office powers, received a copy of the minutes of the court sitting.
10.01.2013 Zmitser and Nasta Dashkevichs have the first meeting in prison after marriage
Nasta Dashkevich (maiden surname – Palazhanka) – had the first meeting with her husband, political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich in the morning of 9 January at the Hrodna prison. The meeting lasted for two hours.
04.01.2013 Homel: Mikalai Siakerka applied to court to get excluded from the "black list"
On 3 January the head of the Homel regional branch of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World" Uladzimir Siakerka filed a complaint to the Tsentralny District Court of Homel.
04.01.2013 Head of the Hrodna BPF branch accused of violating the Constitution
The head of the Hrodna regional branch of the Belarusian Popular Front Vadzim Saranchukou has been fined 1 million rubles for taking part in commemoration of participants of the anti-Russian uprising of 1863-1864.
28.12.2012 Homel military prosecutor replies on foreign travel black list
Uladzimir Siakerka, Chairman of Homel regional office of the United Left Party "Fair World", received a reply to his appeal to local military prosecutor. The politician urged the prosecutor to explain who, when, and why added him to a black list, which resulted in certain problems while crossing the border.
27.12.2012 Liabedzka called to police station by fax
The chairman of the UCP Anatol Liabedzka was called out to the Soviet district’s police department on 27 December as a person, against who “an administrative case” is being pled.
20.12.2012 BCD Vitsebsk activists fined on hooliganism charges
Judge Valiantsina Kismiaroshkina of Vitsebsk Pershamaiski District Court sentenced today local activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Aliaksei Kishchuk and Stanislau Laurenau to a fine of 300,000 rubles each. The activists were convicted on the basis of testimony by four police officers, who testified that the guys used obscene language against them.
20.12.2012 Photographer detained at UCP’s action in Minsk
Photographer Henadz Veratsinski was detained by the police yesterday during an information action held by the activists of the United Civil Party in Minsk, the BelaPAN news agency reports.
