News on the topic: KGB
13.01.2011 KGB continues searches and interrogations
KGB officers held a search at the apartment where Iryna Charniauka, a journalist for the BelSat TV channel, lived. The apartment belongs to her sister. The search ended at 4.15 p.m. The system block of Charniauka’s computer and several CDs were confiscated. Then Iryna was taken to KGB, for an interrogation. She managed to tell human rights defenders that it can concern Aliaksei Mikhalevich’s case.
13.01.2011 Andrei Mikalayeu – another suspect in ‘mass riot’ case
Andrei Mikalayeu was detained at home in the evening of 11 January. KGB officers held a search at his apartment, took away the system block of his computer, a photo camera, CDs and DVDs and guarded him to the detention center in Akrestsin Street for 3 days as a suspect in the criminal case upon Article 293, ‘mass riot’, concerning the 19 December protest rally.
13.01.2011 Tatsiana Seviarynets to lodge complaint against unlawful actions of KGB
Tatsiana Seviarynets is preparing a complaint about the KGB members’ actions to the General Procuracy. They did not allow her to leave for Warsaw in the evening of 12 January.
12.01.2011 Homel KGB continues searches
The Homel KGB officers searched the apartment of Yury Klimovich, an electioneering agent of the presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski and a member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Party. The search was conducted by four persons headed by Captain Andrei Melnikau. They took away Yury’s computer and materials of Rymasheuski’s electoral campaign.
12.01.2011 Hrodna: KGB search at BPF office is over
According to Vadzim Saranchukou, the Chairperson of the Hrodna branch of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, the search was conducted within the framework of the criminal case concerning the ‘mass riot’ in Minsk on 19 December. The formulation in the warrant ordered the investigators to ‘search the regional headquarters of Kastusiou’, though there’s no such body.
12.01.2011 Mahiliou: KGB warns Dzmitry Salauyou
Dzmitry Salauyou, the Deputy Chairperson of the Mahiliou city branch of the Popular Front Party, was issued with an official warning ‘for repeated attempts to take parts in unauthorized mass events’, by which KGB officers mean laying down flowers to memorial signs in Mahiliou on 25 March and 26 April 2010.
12.01.2011 Natallia Kaliada and Mikalai Khalezin are suspects in ‘mass riot’ case
The apartments belonging to the parents of Mikalai Khalezin and Natallia Kaliada, who are correspondingly the art-director and the director of the Free Theatre, were searched on 11 January, informs BelaPAN.
12.01.2011 Homel: computer equipment confiscated from Larysa Shchyrakova
KGB officers searched the apartment of the journalist from Homel Larysa Shchyrakova on 11 January. She is a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists and works with a series of non-state media.
12.01.2011 Wife of presidential candidate Mikhalevich is ‘asked’ not to go to Warsaw. Their apartment searched again today
The arrested ex-presidential candidate Aleiaksei Mikhalevich called his wife on the phone yesterday. It happened at about 7 p.m., says Milana Mikhalevich. He warned her not to speak at the hearings in the Polish Seym. According to her, ‘it was his voice but the words he used were not his’, informs Nasha Niva
12.01.2011 Hrodna: Viktar Sazonau detained by KGB
On 12 January morning KGB officers came to the apartment of Viktar Sazonau, an electioneering agent of the presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau and the Chairperson of the Hrodna city branch of the Belarusian Social Democratic Hramada. Their aim was to hold a search at Hramada’s office.
12.01.2011 Human rights defender Anatol Paplauny summonsed to KGB for interrogation
On 12 December morning a human rights activist from Homel Anatol Paplauny has been summoned to the KGB administration for an interrogation.
12.01.2011 Another search in the apartment of Iryna Khalip and Andrei Sannikau
The apartment of the journalist Iryna Khalip and her husband, the ex-presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau was searched on 12 January.
11.01.2011 KGB continues interrogations
On 11 January morning Yauhen Vaskovich, a journalist for Bobruyskiy Kuryer, was invited for a 'talk' to the Mahiliou KGB.
10.01.2011 Brest: Ihar Sliadzeuski’s apartment was searched and he was guarded to KGB from work
Ihar Sliadzeuski is the father of Katsiaryna Sliadzeuskaya, a civil activist who was sentenced to 10 days of arrest for participation in the protest rally in Minsk on 19 December. He is also the owner of the apartment that is rented by a civil activist Yury Bakur that was searched in connection with the criminal case upon Article 293 ‘mass riot’.
10.01.2011 Searches at apartments of civil activists in Brest
At 8.50 a.m. on 10 January two unidentified people who called themselves KGB officers tried to get into the apartment of the Brest activist Andrei Sharenda. However, he refused to let them in without the local police inspector.
