News on the topic: KGB
02.03.2011 Ambulance called for Uladzimir Niakliayeu
The first interrogation of Uladzimir Niakliayeu for the time of his stay under home arrest was to have taken place today.
28.02.2011 Ales Mihalevich tears KGB cooperation agreement asunder
The former presidential candidate has called the KGB prison a concentration camp where prisoners are tortured in the centre of Minsk.
25.02.2011 Mazyr KGB interrogate independent observer Tseliapun
On 24 February KGB Mazyr officer Vasil Prykhodzka interrogated local pro-dem activist Uladzimir Tseliapun, who had maintained election observation during the 2010 presidential campaign.
25.02.2011 More interrogations by police and KGB
On 24 February Brest police interrogated local entrepreneur Stanislau Fedzko. The interrogator inquired about the businessman’s participation in the 19 December protest.
22.02.2011 Minsk law enforcement agencies looking for “zmagarka” Tatstsyana Yalavaya
Policemen have informed that she is wanted as a witness in the criminal case on mass disorders of Dec.19.
18.02.2011 Nasta Palazhanka released on recognizance
Last evening, Young Front deputy chair 20-year-old Ms. Nasta Palazhanka was released from the KGB pre-trial prison.
17.02.2011 Young Front Mahiliou activist questioned by KGB
On 16 February, Valiantsin Labachou, Mahiliou activist of the Young Front youth opposition movement was interrogated at local KGB department. The KGB officers inquired about the events of 19 December in Minsk.
16.02.2011 Aliaksandr Arastovich released on recognizance
One of the 42 people accused in the criminal case of mass riots in Minsk, 58-year-old Aliaksandr Arastovich, has been released from the KGB detention centre on recognizance.
15.02.2011 Young Front activist Zmitser Yasevich summonsed for interrogation
Representatives of the KGB called Zmitser Yasevich several days ago and invited him for a conversation. Zmitser refused to go there without an official summon, RFE/RL informs.
14.02.2011 Young Front activists didn't reach KGB
The Young Front members who wanted to congratulate their imprisoned comrades on St. Valentine's Day were detained on the way to the main KGB office in Minsk. Among the detainees there was the Deputy Chairperson of the Young Front, Mikalai Dzemidzenka, who was carrying large red heard-shaped postcards.
14.02.2011 Endless interrogations
On 14 February an investigator of the military counter-intelligence phoned to a human rights activist Nasta Loika. He refused to introduce himself and said that he could show his ID during their meeting. He tried to invite her for a 'talk'. However, Nasta answered that she refused to come to him without receiving an official writ. After this the investigator tried to specify her address, she asked that the investigation had all possibilities to find it on their own. After this the counter-intelligence officer promised to soon her a writ soon.
11.02.2011 Mahiliou: Pavel Varashylau interrogated at work
Officers of Mahiliou Region KGB Department paid a visit to the working place of a civil activist Pavel Varashylau to interrogate him as a witness in the case of the 19 December ‘mass riot’ in Minsk. KGB officer Aliaksandr Prakapchuk explained that they had to come to Pavel’s work as they had summonsed him by a mailed writ, but he hadn’t come.
11.02.2011 KGB warns Ivatsevichy activists
The participants of the 19 December post-election street action Vladislav Mikolaychik and Stanislau Khaladovich were summonsed to the Biaroza inter-district KGB Department.
10.02.2011 KGB searched apartment of Dzianis Lazar
KGB officers searched the apartment of a Young Front activist Dzianis Lazar. The search was conducted within the framework of the 'mass riot' case.
10.02.2011 Interrogations go on...
At about 3.45 p.m. on 9 February an activist of the Young Front was summonsed to the dean's office of the physical faculty of Belarusian State University. In some time KGB officers came there and took him to the KGB department, for the sixth interrogation as a witness in the 'mass riot' criminal case. Bear in mind that on 6 January he was taken for an interrogation from the university as well, and was imprisoned for 12 days after it.
