The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

16.03.2013 Police drop charges against journalist Andrzej Poczobut, his guilt not proved

MINSK, March 15. The Office of the Investigative Committee’s Hrodna regional department completed the investigation of criminal charges brought under Par. 2 of Art. 367 of the Criminal Code (“defamation of the President committed by a person who has previously been convicted of libel”) against Hrodna journalist Andrzej Poczobut, the BelaPAN news agency reports.

04.03.2013 Andrei Pachobut is threatened with imprisonment

Andrei Pachobut was officially warned about the inadmissibility of participation in an "unauthorized event" on 11 March.

04.03.2013 Case of Shkurko brothers. Police looking for Andrei Bandarenka

The police started paying a special attention to the human rights activist after he distributed information about the alleged torture of the Shkurko brothers at Lida District Police Department.

28.02.2013 Yauhen Kanstantsinau summoned for questioning by KGB

Civil society activist Yauhen Kanstantsinau has been summoned for questioning by the KGB in Minsk as a witness in the case of Andrei Haidukou, Radio Racyja reports.

22.02.2013 Participant of 2010 post-election protest Andrei Pazniak released from punishment

Frunzenski District Court of Minsk ruled yesterday to release from punishment Andrei Pazniak, participant of the December 19, 2010 post-election protest. On May 26, 2011 Minsk Leninski District Court sentenced him to three years of suspended compulsory labor. Later the sentence was changed to correctional labor, withholding 15% of his salary.

20.02.2013 Human rights defenders demand transparency in Andrei Haidukou’s case

Statement Minsk, February 19, 2013 Belarusian human rights organizations demand transparency and compliance with all the procedural guarantees in the case of Andrei Haidukou facing charges of spying.

17.02.2013 Homel Regional Court overturns conviction of Fair World member

Homel Regional Court overturned on 15 February the decision of Zhlobin District Court to hand down three years of suspended imprisonment to a member of the Fair World party Yauhen Basareuski.

25.01.2013 Andrei Haidukou’s mother worried about counsel’s limited access to her son

Independent media coverage of the so-called “spying case” of Andrei Haidukou gives hope for his release, says the mother of the 23-year-old operator of Navapolatsk-based “Naftan” oil refinery, accused of “treason through intelligence activities.”

23.01.2013 Andrei Haidukou meets lawyer

Andrei Haidukou, Navapolatsk pro-democratic activist arrested by the KGB, met his counsel in the KGB detention center in Minsk. According to his mother Volha, he is well, looking good, and has no health problems. Apart from that, he has received a parcel from home. Andrei also started to get newspapers, Radio Racyja reports.

18.01.2013 Police visit Khalip every day after Lukashenka's statement

Policemen again visited “absolutely free” Khalip after Lukashenka's statement.

16.01.2013 Two weeks pass, Andrei Haidukou gets no parcel

The Navapolatsk youth activist, charged with "high treason", is still kept in the pre-trial prison of the KGB. The investigator who is responsible for his case works at the Vitsebsk Region KGB Department.

12.01.2013 Yauhen Basareuski: "the court minutes were evidently fabricated"

The Zhlobin member of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World" Yauhen Basareuski, sentenced to three years of imprisonment by the Zhlobin District Court for alleged abused of office powers, received a copy of the minutes of the court sitting.

11.01.2013 "Spy" Haidukou's friend interrogated at KGB again

Since the end of December 2012, an activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Illia Bahdanau has been the second suspect in the case of "high treason", initially brought only against the Navapolatski civil activist Andrei Haidukou.

04.01.2013 "ARCHE" makes a new attempt to get registered

On 3 January a representative of the editorial board of the "ARCHE" magazine, historian Ales Pashkevich took to the Ministry of Information the documents. It is already the second attempt for the last two months to regain the license for the edition.