News on the topic: KGB
16.03.2011 Palazhanka summoned to KGB for interrogation
The girl accused of Dec.19 case does not exclude that she may be arrested again in connection with the activities of members of the Young Front aimed at releasing its members.
16.03.2011 Ales Mіhalevіch sends audio message
The deputy head of the movement “For Freedom” Yuras Hubarevich is sure that Ales Mihalevich is safe and sound in a safe place.
15.03.2011 Invention of Belarusian KGB: telephone interrogation
Krystsina Shatsikava, an activist of the civil campaign Nash Dom from Mahiliou, was summonsed for an interrogation at the Minsk KGB. KGB officers promised her a reimbursement for the travel expenses. However, the activist demanded to pay the money in advance, as when she had come to the Minsk City Police Department they had also promised a reimbursement, but instead gave her a written obligation to pay the money after getting fines from participants of the “mass riot”.
15.03.2011 Tatsiana Seviarynets not allowed to to meet with her son for the third time
The investigation refused to let Tatsiana Seviarynets, the mother of politician Pavel Seviarynets who has been in the KGB pre-trial prison since 19 December 2010, meet with her son. He wasn't allowed to meet with an Orthodox priest, either.
14.03.2011 Andrei Sannikau has new lawyer
As charter97.org website was informed by Alla Sannikava, she managed to find a lawyer who agreed to defend the presidential candidate. The previous lawyer of Andrei Sannikau, Pavel Sapelka, had been deprived of advocatory license. Now the political prisoner is to be defended by the lawyer Maryna Kavaleuskaya from the legal advice bureau of the Frunzenski district of Minsk.
14.03.2011 KGB looking for European Belarus activist
Police and KGB officers are terrorizing Nadzezhda Zhorava, a disabled person, mother of Vasil Zhorau, in order to find out his location.
11.03.2011 Mahiliou: KGB summons Young Front activist Valiantsin Labachou for interrogation
On 11 March a KGB officer who introduced himself as Andrei Ryhoravich (he didn't tell his surname) paid a visit to Valiantsin and handed him a writ for an interrogation. However, it is not specified within the frames of what case the activist was to be interrogated.
10.03.2011 Relatives of Aliaksandr Klaskouski address procuracy in connection with the use of torture towards him and other KGB prisoners
Ludmila and Volha Klavskouskis, mother and sister of Aliaksandr Klaskouski who is kept in the KGB jail on charges of involvement in the riots on 19 December, addressed the Prosecutor General, Ryhor Vasilevich.
10.03.2011 Pensioner from Beshankovichy interrogated by KGB
A policeman came to Valiantsina Harkun’s home and brought with him a list of questions that he was instructed to ask.
09.03.2011 Navahradak: Christian democrats are summonsed to KGB
The activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Yury Kazak and Uladzimir Kachahur received summons. KGB officers also wanted to hand writs to Daryia Bakhar (but she wasn’t at work at the time of their visit), and to Siarhei Vauchok (he wasn’t at home).
09.03.2011 KGB refuses to return computer equipment to Nasha Niva
The editorial board of the socio-political newspaper Nasha Niva received an answer from the Minsk and Minsk Region KGB Department to its request to return the computer equipment that had been confiscated following the protest actions of the 19-20 December in central Minsk.
04.03.2011 Taisiya Kabanchuk interrogated at KGB for 7 hours
Taisiya Kabanchuk, a coordinator of the organizing committee to create the Belarusian Christian Democracy party in the Mahiliou region, was questioned in the Babruisk city KGB department for 7 hours, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on 2 March.
04.03.2011 Dzmitry Bandarenka interrogated at KGB for first time in two months
Since 29 December, the lawyer has been denied meetings with his defendant, Andrei Sannikou’s affiliate Dzmitry Bandarenka.
03.03.2011 Accused of ‘mass riot’ apply to General Procuracy
‘We, the accused of the so-called ‘mass riot of 19 December 2010’, who went through imprisonment in the KGB pre-trial prison, demand to stop this travesty of justice and permissiveness of ‘people with shoulder straps’, which is taking place in the country today, and in the KGB prison in particular,’ reads the appeal, signed by Andrej Dzmitryeu, Uladzimir Kobets, Aleh Korban, Anastasia Palazhanka, Natallia Radzina, Vital Rymasheuski and Siarhei Vazniak.
03.03.2011 Kirvekich’s mother seeking to change restraint for him
Larysa Kirkevich, the mother of a Young Front leader from Hrodna, Ales Kirkevich, tries to convince the KGB that her son faced problems with his heart in their jail and this can be a ground to change the pretrial restraint.
