News on the topic: political parties & movements
27.09.2011 Babruisk police raid apartment of UCP activist
The private apartment of Viktar Budzinayeu, Babruisk leader of the United Civil Party of Belarus, has been searched by police, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
27.09.2011 Speak the Truth activist detained in Mahiliou
On 27 September, Mahiliou police detained an unidentified local activist of the “Speak the Truth” civil campaign, www.belaruspartisan.org reports.
26.09.2011 No parcels for Dashkevich allowed
Mrs. Tatsiana Seviarynets, Vitsebsk regional coordinator of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, has not been allowed sending a food and clothes parcel to the imprisoned Young Front leader and BCD activist Zmitser Dashkevich, who has been recently transported to Vitsebsk penal colony and is currently awaiting transfer, the Belarusian Christian Democracy press-service reports.
23.09.2011 UCP youth leader stopped at Lithuanian border
Aleh Korban, leader of the United Civil Party’s youth wing, has been detained at the Lithuanian border this morning, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
22.09.2011 BPF Hrodna leader summoned to KGB
Vadzim Saranchukou, head of the Belarusian Popular Front’s Hrodna city office, will be interrogated by the KGB, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
21.09.2011 Activist arrested right at police department
An activist of the United Civil Party Volha Padzeryna has been sentenced to 10 days’ administrative arrest by the court of Leninski district of Minsk.
20.09.2011 BCD activist Vaskovich threatened with another criminal case
Yauhen Vaskovich, member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, is facing one more criminal prosecution for alleged disobeying the penal colony’s inner regulations, the BCD press-service reports, quoting the wife of another convict in so called “anarchists’ case” Mikalai Dziadok, Valerya Khotsina.
19.09.2011 Yaromenak sentenced to 12 days of arrest, Palazhanka – 11 days
Judge Natallia Vaitsekhovich of Minsk Tsentralny District Court sentenced Uladzimer Yaromenak to 12 days of administrative arrest and Nasta Palazhanka to 11 days of arrest for alleged violating Art. 23.34 of the Administrative Code (violation of procedures for organization and conduct of mass events).
19.09.2011 Young Front activists detained in Minsk
Activists of the Young Front youth opposition movement Nasta Palazhanka and Uladzimer Yaromenak have been detained by Minsk police this morning, the Young Front’s press-service reports.
15.09.2011 Sudden change of investigator in criminal case against BPF activsits
The activists of the Belarusian Popular Front Maksim Hubarevich, Ales Kalita and Siarzhuk Semianiuk who are suspected within the framework of a criminal case concerning “hooliganism, committed by a group of persons”, found about it after receiving a telephone call from investigator Patapava, who wanted to inform them about the upcoming confrontation with a witness. According to the law, the youngsters were to have been acquainted with the ruling about the appointment of a new investigator.
15.09.2011 BPF Party is evicted again
The owner of the premises has asked the BPF party to vacate its office by 1 October.
14.09.2011 Maksim Hubarevich summonsed to confrontation once again
Maksim Hubarevich, Deputy Chair of the Hrodna city organization of the Belarusian Popular Front, is summonsed to another confrontation in Minsk, the third since the beginning of the investigation into the incident that had taken place near the new office of the BPF in Minsk on 13 August.
14.09.2011 Military procuracy casts a veil of secrecy over tortures in KGB prison
The Belarusian Helsinki Committee has received an answer to his request to hold a check-up concerning the statement of the former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau about tortures in the remand prison of the KGB.
13.09.2011 Anatol Liabedzka got detained at Domodedovo airport
The leader of the United Civil Party and former political prisoner Anatol Liabedzka was detained in the Moscow airport Domodedovo on his way to Washington. He managed to inform the Russian politician Leonid Gozman about it.
12.09.2011 KGB prepared testimony for janitor
BPF party member Siarhei Semianiuk says a criminal case opened against him and party activists Ales Kalita and Maksim Hubarevich over hooliganism will soon be sent to court.
