The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

04.01.2011 Search at the apartment of Aliaksandr Piatkevich

A democratic activist Aliaksandr Piatkevich informed human rights defenders about the search that had been conducted by KGB officers in his apartment. A computer and information carriers were confiscated from him as a result.

04.01.2011 Search at human rights defender Nasta Loika’s apartment

At about 12.40 a.m. Nasta’s mother called to her and said that unknown police or KGB officers tried to burst into their apartment to hold a search there. Nasta asked the neighbors to tell them not to break the apartment door till her arrival. Then she came to the house in the company of the human rights defenders Ales Bialiatski, Aleh Hulak and a representative of the Committee of International Control over the situation of human rights in Belarus.

03.01.2011 Homel: KGB wants to ‘talk’ to Statkevich’s electioneering agent Yury Zakharanka

An unidentified KGB officer called to Mr. Zakharanka to invite him for a ‘talk’ as a witness in the case of the ‘mass riot’ that had allegedly taken place in Minsk on 19 December.

03.01.2011 20-year old Nasta Palazhanka is left in KGB jail

The deputy chairperson of the Young Front Nasta Palazhanka stays in jail. The term of her detention in the KGB jail has been prolonged for two months. The deputy chairperson of the Young Front (registered in the Czech Republic) made a speech in the square and said that the youth supported a democratic Belarus where everything was done according to the law and where dictatorship did not exist, reports Arche.

03.01.2011 Ex-presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski also released under recognizance

On 1 January the presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski was released from the KGB pre-trial detention centre on a written undertaking not to leave the place. He had also written a letter of explanation to Lukashenka.

30.12.2010 Four ex-candidates charged with staging mass riots

On 29 December, four former presidential candidates – Uladzimir Niakliayeu, Andrei Sannikau, Mikalai Statkevich and Vital Rymasheuski – were officially charged under Article 293 of the Criminal Code (“organizing mass riots”).

30.12.2010 Belarusian activist of Russia's National Bolshevik Party arrested by KGB

Yawhen Kontush, a Belarusian activist of Russia’s National Bolshevik Party (Nazbol), has been arrested on Thursday morning, his associate, Valery Kabernik, told BelaPAN.

30.12.2010 KGB raids human rights activist Alena Tankachova's apartment

Belarus' state security service (KGB) on Wednesday searched the apartment of human rights activist Alena Tankachova in Minsk.

29.12.2010 Another possible suspect in “mass riots” criminal case

Activist Uladzimir Loban has been reportedly put in the KGB Minsk pre-trial prison, after serving a 10-day arrest for participating in the 19 December post-election protest rally.

29.12.2010 KGB raids office shared by Belarusian PEN Center and private weekly Nasha Niva

KGB officers raided the office of the Belarusian PEN Center and the private weekly Nasha Niva in downtown Minsk on Tuesday evening.

28.12.2010 Activists and journalist summoned to KGB

The KGB keeps harassing civil and political activists by summoning them to interrogations in the “mass riots” criminal case.

28.12.2010 Flat of UCP leader Anatol Lyabedzka is searched

The flat of the leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Lyabedzka is being searched now. Lyabedzka’s son Artsyom is in his father’s flat now. He managed to make a phone call to the UCP office and informed about the search.

28.12.2010 Two more suspects in “mass riots” criminal case

Two more opposition activists have been declared suspects in the “mass riots” criminal case, initiated following the 19 December protest rally in Minsk.

28.12.2010 Activist Lazar released

Dzianis Lazar, activist of the Young Front youth opposition movement, previously charged with “disorderly conduct”, has been released from the KGB Minsk pre-trial prison.