News on the topic: political parties & movements
01.03.2012 Minsk: mail correspondence restrictions applied to Ivan Shyla
The parents of Ivan Shyla, the “Young Front” activist who is serving a 22-day prison term in the delinquents’ isolation center in Akrestsin Street in Minsk, received only two out of the three letters he had sent them. Fellow activist from Salihorsk, who had sent letters of support to him, received them back with the mark “doesn’t reside”.
29.02.2012 Police drop battery charges against BPF members
The criminal prosecution against three Belarusian Popular Front members has been terminated, European Radio for Belarus reports, quoting one of the activists Maksim Hubarevich.
28.02.2012 Belarusian Helsinki Committee demands to inspect torture report by Valadarski detention center prisoner
The Belarusian Helsinki Committee has lodged an appeal with the Prosecutor General’s Office demanding to investigate torture allegations reported by Mr. Siarhei Hafarau, inmate of Minsk detention center in Valadarski Street, Radio Racyja reports.
23.02.2012 Orsha road police detain BCD activists
On 22 February, Orsha road police detained four members of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, as they were going to Vitsebsk to attend the trial of local pro-democratic activist Siarhei Kavalenka.
23.02.2012 Young Front activists convicted in absentia
On 22 February, Vitsebsk District Court sentenced four Young Front activists to three days of administrative arrest each for alleged disorderly conduct.
20.02.2012 Former political prisoner’s father harassed by tax inspection
On 17 February, Uladzimir Palazhanka, father of the Young Front’s deputy chair Nasta Palazhanka, was summoned to Minsk Pershamaiski District Tax Inspection.
17.02.2012 Rymasheuski: All BCD-related websites are down
One of the leaders of the steering committee for the creation of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party has claimed that something like that occurred on December 19, 2010.
16.02.2012 BCD Homel activist faces dismissal
The administration of Homel confectionary factory has ordered to terminate the employment contract of local activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Andrei Padziarun, the BCD press-service reports.
16.02.2012 Young Front member expelled from third year of BNTU
Mihas Muski has sent a letter to Syarhei Maskevich, Minister of Education, today.
16.02.2012 BCD gets ultimate denial of registration
The Ministry of Justice of Belarus took a final decision to deny registration to the Belarusian Christian Democracy party.
15.02.2012 Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh still struggles for proper acquittal
On 15 February Aliaksandr Suzhayeu, Judge of the Homel Regional Court, considered the appeal of activist of the United Civil Party and Movement “For Freedom!” Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh against the ruling of the Tsentralny District court of Homel which upheld the dropping of his case because of the impossibility to prove his guilt.
15.02.2012 Procuracy states Tatsiana Seviarynets has no right to initiate check-up of tuberculosis hospital
Tatsiana Seviarynets, coordinator of the steering committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, applied to the Vitsebsk Regional Procuracy with the request to hold a check-up at the Vitsebsk regional tuberculosis hospital in the town of Bahusheusk. In particular, she asked to find about the legal reasons for keeping Valery Hancharenka, an adherent of the BCD, in the psychiatric department.
15.02.2012 Ivan Shyla to spend 22 days in jail
Ivan Shyla, one of the leaders of the “Young Front”, who was detained by riot police before “I Love Belarus” award giving ceremony, is in a detention center in Akrestsin Street now.
14.02.2012 “Young Front” activist Ivan Shyla detained in Minsk
According to the head of the “Young Front” Anastasiya Palazhanka, Ivan Shyla was detained by riot policemen – they pulled him into their car as soon as he went out of the PEN-center's Minsk office.
10.02.2012 UCP activist put on “prophylaxis register”
On 8 February youth activist of the United Civil Party Aliaksandr Stsepanenka received a telephone call from the Pershamaiski District Police Department of Minsk. He was proposed to come to the DPD to familiarize with the ruling according to which he was put on the prophylaxis register.
