News on the topic: political persecution
07.12.2007 KGB Persecutes ‘Belsat’ Journalist
A journalist from Homel, a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists Siarhei Padsasonny applied to the regional prosecutor’s office with a complaint against the actions of the Homel oblast KGB office.
06.12.2007 Police Threaten to Siarzhuk Huminski
Several days ago the police paid a visit to the parents of the Young Front activist Siarzhuk Huminski.
06.12.2007 Salihorsk: Activists interrogated on New Criminal Case against Ivan Shyla
By 7 December Salihorsk prosecutor’s office must finish the check-up on a criminal case against Ivan Shyla. Bear in mind that on 7 December the youth activists of Salihorsk held the action ‘Put Communism to Tribunal’ and were detained by the police, who used force. Later an administrative commission gave to them small fines. A criminal case was brought against the youth leader Ivan Shyla. He is charged with ‘resistance to the police’. He says that it is impossible to ‘resist’ with one’s arms twisted.
05.12.2007 Polatsk: Katsiaryna Salauyova Expelled from Polatsk State University
Today the official order for Katsyaryna Salauyova’s expulsion from Polatsk State University has been signed. The activist’s group mates began to gather signatures in her support.
04.12.2007 Belarusian Customs Officers Check-up Journalists’ Laptops
In the night of 1-2 December at the frontier point 'Tserakhava' on the Ukrainian border the Belarusian customs officers took away for a check-up the laptop that belonged to the journalist of Radio 'Racyja' Aliaksei Minchonak. Minchonak was returning from a press tour across the Ukrainian part of Chernobyl zone.
04.12.2007 Masty: Ales Zarembiuk Summonsed to Police
The democratic activist Ales Zarembiuk is summonsed to Masty district police department in connection with Aliaksandr Milinkevich’s visit to the town. Milinkevich was in Masty on 4 November and discussed social issued with those who came to meet with him.
28.11.2007 Katsiaryna Salauyova: «It Resembled Criminal Series»
Katsiaryna Salauyova, Young Front activist, was detained in Polatsak on Sunday night. The girl was caught by unknown people in civvies and taken to a police department by force. The victim tells the details of her detainment to the Young Front press service.
27.11.2007 KGB against BelSat
The first non-state TV channel for Belarusians BelSat begins broadcasting from December, 10. The Gomel KGB is trying to find out who of the local journalists is going to work for independent TV.
15.11.2007 Money Disappear from Political Prisoner Andrei Klimau’s Account
The world already knows the torturing of political prisoner Klimau (a deputy of the disbanded Belarusian parliament). But the administration of correction facility #20 of the Department of correction is convinced of their impunity, and continues torturing the sick man.
14.11.2007 Yaraslau Hryshchenia Fired
On 13 November the director of Baranavichy Culture house of railway workers phoned to the youth activist Yaraslau Hryshchenia and told that he was fired.
14.11.2007 Farce: Political Prisoner Klimau’s Foodstuffs ‘Checked’ for More than a Month
Only recently has the political prisoner Andrei Klimau received the foodstuffs, which were taken away for a ‘check-up’ in early October, as soon as he was guarded to Mozyr colony. The information about the return of the foodstuffs to the prisoner was voiced by Yury Barankau, the acting head of the Department of serving punishment.
14.11.2007 Representative of Belarusian People’s Republic Died
Belarusian People’s Republic was declared by the Belarusian democratic intellectuals in 1918, short before the Bolshevik’s turned the country into a Soviet republic. The Communists did not recognize Belarusian People’s Republic. The BPF government had to escape abroad.
12.11.2007 33 Countries Propose to Condemn Belarus for Human Rights Violations
33 countries have introduced to the UN a draft resolution on Belarus.
12.11.2007 Pavel Batuyeu Summonsed to Prosecutor’s Office
On 7 November in the central square of Salihorsk the youth action ‘Put Communism to Tribunal’ took place. It lasted for some 15 seconds and was violently dispersed by the police. The same day the prosecutor’s office started a check-up whether one of the action participants, Ivan Shyla, violated article 363 of the Criminal Code, ‘resistance to the police’.
12.11.2007 Vaukavysk: Authorities Try to Disrupt Assembly of BPF Party
On 11 November in Vaukavysk an assembly of the BPF Party for nomination of delegates to the upcoming General Assembly of the party took place. The assembly was attended by the BPF chairman Vintsuk Viachorka, his deputy Ales Mikhalevich, the chair of Hrodna BPF office Siarhei Malchyk, the chair of Vaukavysk BPF office Mikalai Kalalchuk and a member of the BPF council Uladzimir Kishkurna.
