News on the topic: criminal prosecution
03.01.2011 Dzmitry Dashkevich and Eduard Lobau transferred to Zhodzina jail
The Young Front leaders Dzmitry Dashkevich, Dzianis Lazar and Eduard Lobau had been detained on 18 December in Minsk on fabricated charges (Article 339, part 3 of the Criminal Code – malignant hooliganism) and have been kept in jail since then. According to the investigation, the accused ‘have groundlessly and deliberately beaten a man with fists and a crowbar.
03.01.2011 20-year old Nasta Palazhanka is left in KGB jail
The deputy chairperson of the Young Front Nasta Palazhanka stays in jail. The term of her detention in the KGB jail has been prolonged for two months. The deputy chairperson of the Young Front (registered in the Czech Republic) made a speech in the square and said that the youth supported a democratic Belarus where everything was done according to the law and where dictatorship did not exist, reports Arche.
03.01.2011 Ex-presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski also released under recognizance
On 1 January the presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski was released from the KGB pre-trial detention centre on a written undertaking not to leave the place. He had also written a letter of explanation to Lukashenka.
03.01.2011 Russian citizen Ivan Gaponov is kept in pre-trial prison in Valadarski Street
Ivan Gaponov is a citizen of the Russian Federation living in Belarus. He was sentenced to 10 days of arrest for participation in the protest action of 19 December. In the evening of 29 December he was released from jail together with other Russian citizens. He came home and managed to spend one hour there, after which there came two police officers who told that he was a suspect in the criminal case concerning the alleged mass riot on 19 December. As a result, Ivan was interrogated in presence of the duty barrister, after which he was taken back to Akrestsin Street jail. There he had a meeting with the Russian consul on 31 December.
03.01.2011 Restraint to Fiaduta and Radzina remains unchanged
On 31 December the Tsentralny District Court of Minsk refused to change the restraint to the journalists Aliaksandr Fiaduta and Natallia Radzina who are charged with organizing mass riot (Article 293 of the Criminal Code). Thus, the accused remain in custody.
30.12.2010 Four ex-candidates charged with staging mass riots
On 29 December, four former presidential candidates – Uladzimir Niakliayeu, Andrei Sannikau, Mikalai Statkevich and Vital Rymasheuski – were officially charged under Article 293 of the Criminal Code (“organizing mass riots”).
29.12.2010 Young Front activists Dashkevich and Lobau’s detention extended
The detention of two Young Front activists Dzmitry Dashkevich and Eduard Lobau has been extended till 7 January. However, no official charges have yet been brought against them.
29.12.2010 Another possible suspect in “mass riots” criminal case
Activist Uladzimir Loban has been reportedly put in the KGB Minsk pre-trial prison, after serving a 10-day arrest for participating in the 19 December post-election protest rally.
28.12.2010 Activists and journalist summoned to KGB
The KGB keeps harassing civil and political activists by summoning them to interrogations in the “mass riots” criminal case.
28.12.2010 Two more suspects in “mass riots” criminal case
Two more opposition activists have been declared suspects in the “mass riots” criminal case, initiated following the 19 December protest rally in Minsk.
28.12.2010 Activist Lazar released
Dzianis Lazar, activist of the Young Front youth opposition movement, previously charged with “disorderly conduct”, has been released from the KGB Minsk pre-trial prison.
27.12.2010 KGB do not confirm to Volha Nyaklyaeva whether her husband is in their custody
Volha Nyaklyaeva has visited the KGB today after the General Public Prosecutor's Office in order to file a complaint. Let us remind you, she demands to provide her husband Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu's lawyer access to him and also to inform whether the politician and the poet is alive.
26.12.2010 23 suspects in “mass riots” criminal case (updated)
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" has been monitoring the criminal charges brought against Belarusian politicians and civil activists, following the brutal dispersal of the 19 December peaceful protest in MInsk. As of 26 December, twenty three persons have been declared suspects in a criminal case over “mass riots” on 19 December. They may face up to 15 years of imprisonment. 21 of them are currently in the KGB's pre-trial prison. Ryhor Kastusiou released on his own recognizance. The whereabouts of Dmitry Us is still unknown. The deadline for brigning official charges is December 29. Apart from that, three activists, detained ahead of the rally, are facing criminal charges for "disorderly conduct".
23.12.2010 Presidential candidate Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu's family and lawyer do not know his whereabouts
The presidential candidate Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu's family and his lawyer have not received any information about his health condition for several days, reports "Gazeta.Ru"
22.12.2010 Another suspect in “mass riot” case
Former presidential candidate Dzmitry Us has been reportedly declared as another target in the criminal investigation into the 19 December “mass riots” in Minsk’s Nezalezhnastsi Square.
