The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

11.01.2013 "Spy" Haidukou's friend interrogated at KGB again

Since the end of December 2012, an activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Illia Bahdanau has been the second suspect in the case of "high treason", initially brought only against the Navapolatski civil activist Andrei Haidukou.

11.01.2013 Mahiliou KGB reluctant to discriminate in the case of "Slavonic March" organization

The decision to authorize the "Slavonic March" is beyond our competence – this is the answer received by the deputy head of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Ihar Barysau from the deputy head of the Mahiliou Region KGB Bureau Savienka.

09.01.2013 Illia Bahdanau summonsed to KGB again

According to the head of the unregistered Union of Young Intellectuals Yauhen Kanstantsinau, Illia Bahdanau, a witness in the "high treason case" against Andrei Haidukou, has been summonsed to KGB again.

07.01.2013 Human rights defenders think the accused of "high treason", Andrei Haidukou, may be tortured

Such suspicion arises from the repeated non-admission of the counsel to the pre-trial prison of the KGB, where the Navapolatsk democratic activist Andrei Haidukou is currently kept. Human rights defenders submitted an appropriate complaint to the UN Special Rapporteur on this occasion.

04.01.2013 "Spy case": counsel not allowed to visit Andrei Haidukou

Andrei Haidukou, who is accused of spying, wasn't allowed to see his lawyer in the KGB jail on 3 January.

19.12.2012 Mahiliou Court confirms KGB’s supervision over BCD activist

Judge Yurchanka of Mahiliou Leninski District Court dismissed yesterday a complaint lodged by the activist of the organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy" Aleh Aksionau against local KGB department.

07.12.2012 Hrodna: court did not reinstate history lecturer Andrei Charniakevich at work

On 7 December the trial on the case of the historian Andrei Charniakevich came to an end at the Leninski District Court of Hrodna.

06.12.2012 Relatives receive the first letter from Andrei Haidukou

The “Naftan” worker, arrested for “state treachery”, has been kept in custody for more than a month already: at first at the Minsk KGB prison, no in the Vitsebsk pre-trial prison #2.

06.12.2012 Andrei Haidukou's friend gets summonsed to KGB

The leader of the unregistered Union of Young Intellectuals from Navapolatsk has been summoned to the Vitebsk KGB to give evidence in Andrei Haidukou's case.

04.12.2012 Restraint for Andrei Haidukou left unchanged

The youth activist Andrei Haidukou, one of the founders of the “Union of Young Intellectuals”, has been kept in the pre-trial prison of the KGB in Minsk for more than three weeks. In the beginning of December he was transferred to the Vitsebsk pre-trial prison #2.

01.12.2012 Rahachou: oppositionist prohibited to leave Belarus

Dzianis Dashkevich received a ruling of the Homel Regional Court, according to which he was prohibited to leave Belarus until the complete payment of a fine of 2 million rubles.

30.11.2012 Former political prisoner Uladzimir Yaromenak questioned over attack on the Lithuanian Embassy

Uladzimir Yaromenak was forcefully taken to the Partyzanski District Police Department to give explanations regarding the incident.

29.11.2012 Have charges to Haidukou been changed?

The arrested civil activist is being transferred from Minsk to Vitsebsk. Andrei Haidukou's mother received this information from a lawyer, RFE/RL reports.

21.11.2012 BCD activist appeals harassment by KGB

Aleh Aksionau, Mahiliou activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, filed today an appeal to the court of the city’s Leninski District challenging a decision by local KGB officials who instituted supervision over the activist putting him on a preventive record.