News on the topic: political persecution
11.08.2009 ‘Young Front’ activist Andrei Tsianiuta secretly expelled from Bryansk agricultural academy
On 10 August Andrei Tsianiuta, Young Front activist from Homel, was detained near his house by policemen and taken to the military enlistment office.
01.07.2009 Haradok region: unemployed activists declare hunger-strike of protest
Leanid Autukhou and Alexander Zhytkevich went on a hunger-strike of protest when they lost any hope to get employed with the assistance of the local job center.
29.06.2009 Informational campaign against political persecution of democratic activists
Representatives of 17 youth organizations launch an informational campaign against the political persecution of democratic activists.
05.06.2009 Ivan Shyla is tried in absentia
The court of Salihorsk considered Ivan Shyla’s complaint against the military enlistment office. Shyla demands the court to find illegal the actions of military and doctors during his forceful draft into the army.
04.06.2009 Investigation into case of political prisoner Dubski extended for indefinite term
Artsiom Dubski, a person involved in the ‘Process of 14’, is charged with violation of the rules of serving the sentence.
02.06.2009 Andrei Mikalayeu is pressurized at work
The representative of Navapolatsk club of historical reconstruction Iron Wolf Andrei Mikalayeu has been summoned to the local education department. The authorities demanded that he immediately vacated the premises at the local center of extracurricular education where he worked with problem teenagers. The authorities also stated that his labor contract would hardly be prolonged, but did not explain the reasons.
09.05.2009 Pressurization of Astravets activists continues
On 5 May a police officer visited the apartment of the member of the organizing committee of the civil initiative Astravets nuclear power station is a crime Ivan Kruk to interrogate the latter concerning distribution of the informational materials dedicated to the 23rd anniversary of Chernobyl accident and the official plans of constructing a nuclear power station in Astravets.
14.04.2009 Oppositionist Leanid Autukhou is not employed because of his political views
The head of a district organization of the BPF Party Leanid Autukhou has already spent more than a year trying to get employed with the aid of the social employment center in Haradok.
14.04.2009 ‘Young Front’ activist Artsium Dubski beaten by riot police
The Young Front activist managed to send a letter from the pre-trial detention center. In this letter, published on the Young Front website, Artsiom Dubski says how the riot police beat him and his cell mates.
14.04.2009 Police cannot find the persons who beat Franak Viachorka
Franak Viachorka, forcefully drafted into the army, received a letter saying the police couldn’t find the person who injured the activist.
07.04.2009 Property of ‘For Freedom’ movement distrained
Furniture from the apartment where the leader of For Freedom movement met with his supporters, have been brought away by movers today.
03.04.2009 Kazulin, Liabedzka and Viachorka were detained on the border
Belarusian oppositionists Anatol Liabedzka, Alexander Kazulin, and Vintsuk Viachorka were detained at the Lithuanian-Belarusian border in the morning on 3 April.
01.04.2009 Pavel Seviarynets’ mother is harassed by tax inspection
The well-known Vitsebsk activist Tatsiana Seviarynets suddenly started receiving telephone calls. The people who called her referred to the advertisement in the newspaper Iz Ruk v Ruki about the services of a private tutor. However, the woman didn’t put any ads in the newspaper. In the text of the ad it was specified that the services were expensive. Who and why did it?
12.03.2009 Pressurization of activists of Belarusian Christian Democracy Party in Haradzets
Activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party in the Mahilou region are pressurized by the local authorities, who are making them leave the party.
11.03.2009 Harry Pahaniaila: ‘Verdict to Yana Paliakova was issued unlawfully’
Only today, on 11 March Neanila Paliakova finally managed to receive a copy of the court verdict that had been issued to her daughter Yana Paliakova by Salihorsk district court on 3 March. Even a brief familiarization with the documents lets human rights defenders state about gross law violations during the trial of Yana Paliakova.
