News on the topic: KGB
10.01.2011 Journalist Andrei Pachobut beaten by Hrodna KGB
Andrei Pachobut, a journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza and a popular Belarusian blogger, was detained by special task forces in Hrodna on 8 January, guarded to a KGB department, and beaten by KGB officers at the questioning.
10.01.2011 KGB prisoners aren't allowed to meet with their lawyers for 12 days already
Lawyers of a presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau, a European Belarus coordinator Dzmitry Bandarenka, journalists Iryna Khalip and Natallia Radzina, met with their clients for the last time on 29 December 2010 when their clients were filed charges.
08.01.2011 Yul’yan Misiukevich taken to delinquents’ isolation center in Akrestsin Street
On 6 January, after passing an exam, a Young Front member Yul’yan Misiukevich was guarded to KGB for an interrogation. After this, he wasn’t accessible on the phone.
08.01.2011 Aliaksei Mikhalevich transferred from KGB jail
Aleh Aheyeu, the defense lawyer of Aliaksei Mikhalevich, has learnt that his client was transferred from the KGB jail to the pretrial detention facility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Valadarski Street, Minsk.
08.01.2011 KGB 'offers cooperation' to wife of Charter97 coordinator
KGB officers visited the apartment of Dzmitry Bandarenka, a prisoner of the KGB (the State Security Committee) pre-trial detention center. They wanted to have 'a private conversation' with his wife Volha. She managed to tell about that to her daughter on the phone, and after that the talk was interrupted.
06.01.2011 KGB actively interrogates Young Front members
On 6 December a Young Front activist Yul'yan Misiukevich managed to inform his friends that he was taken for an interrogation by KGB officers right after passing an exam.
06.01.2011 Slonim: civil activist seized outdoors
Barys Kuchynski went out of his house and went to the local post office. A car drove towards him. Two men came out, said they were KGB officers and told him to get in the car. Mr. Kuchynski managed to phone and tell about it. He said he didn't know why he was being taken to KGB this way. He even asked the driver to stop the car and wanted to get off, but wasn't allowed to do it. Shortly before the detention Barys had served a 15-day arrest term for participation in the 19 December protest rally.
06.01.2011 KGB continues large-scale search campaign all over Belarus
Belarus is swung with a wave of searches, detentions and interrogations held by KGB within the framework of the criminal case that has been instigated upon Article 293 of the Criminal Code (mass riot) in connection with the 19 December protest rally in the center of Minsk.
05.01.2011 Hrodna: human rights defender Uladzimir Khilmanovich is summoned to KGB again
The Hrodna human rights defender Uladzimir Khilmanovich was sumoned to the local KGB office by investigator Hrynkevich. The investigator said that this time Mr. Khilmanovich is summoned for interrogation in connection with the events of 19 December in Minsk. However, the human rights defender had been already questioned on this matter on 28 December.
05.01.2011 Activist of Speak Truth hasn't returned from interrogation
At night KGB officers searched the apartment that was renteded by an activist of the Speak Truth civil campaign Pavel Vinahradau and his girlfriend. The search was held by an investigator of the Pershamaiski District Police Department of Minsk Aliaksandr Fitser.
05.01.2011 Searches in apartments of democratic activists continue
One of the leaders of the movement of entrepreneurs, Ales Makayeu, has informed BelaPAN that KGB members searched his flat yesterday. Minsk and Minsk Province KGB members confiscated his system unit. Makayeu will have to visit KGB for an interrogation on 5 January.
05.01.2011 Human rights defender Nasta Loika interrogated as witness in KGB
A human rights activist Nasta Loika was interrogated by KGB as a witness of 19 December events in Minsk, reports BelaPAN.
05.01.2011 KGB searched office of Belarusian Helsinki Committee and apartment of its chairperson
The office of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee was searched by KGB officers. A laptop and the organization server were confiscated as a result. After it, the KGB officers went to the apartment of the BHC Chairperson, Aleh Hulak. They also told they would summon him for an interrogation.
05.01.2011 KGB is looking for directors of Free Theater
Special services of Belarus have started to seek out the leadership of the Free Theater of Belarus.
04.01.2011 KGB bans Vital Rymasheuski to hold press-conference
The former prisoner of the KGB jail, ex-presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski says that he had to cancel his press-conference he intended to hold on 4 January.
