02.09.2009 Oppositionists continued to be sacked on political grounds

An activist of “Young Belarus” Kasya Halitskaya has been sacked after a representative of Belarusian secret services visited her office.

Kasya Halitskaya told that a KGB colonel recently visited the office of the company and made her boss sack her, Radio Svaboda informs.

Kasya Halitskaya works for a foreign company which sells equipment.

Earlier Halitskaya had problems in her university because of her political activities. Kasya Halitskaya. Who was a Young Front activist then, was fired twice on political grounds. The young activist many times was serving arrests in the prison in Akrestsin Street for her participation in street protests.

18.08.2009 BPF member sacked for participating in rally

According to the BPF’s press-service, Aliaksandr Kuzniatsou, head of the party’s Vitsebsk City office, is going to be fired after he took part in the 27 July opposition rally in the town of Haradok, Vitsebsk region. Another BPF activist Siarhei Zviozdachkin was sacked for participating in the rally a few days ago.

07.07.2009 Kobryn: dismissal from job for refusal to enter pro-governmental organization

Correspondence student Ales Strachuk has been fired from a Kobryn enterprise for refusal to join the pro-governmental organization Belaya Rus.

30.06.2009 Human rights defender Raman Yurhel lost his job

On 23 June Raman Yurhel, representative of the republican human rights NGOs Belarusian Helsinki Committee in Hrodna oblast, was dismissed from the position of watchman at Hrodnaselbudprayekt on grounds of redundancy. The administration of the enterprise warned him about it a month before it.

06.05.2009 Masty: workers sue against the enterprise

Two workers of Mastoudreu have filed a suit to Masty district court against the unlawful dismissal from the enterprise.

14.04.2009 Oppositionist Leanid Autukhou is not employed because of his political views

The head of a district organization of the BPF Party Leanid Autukhou has already spent more than a year trying to get employed with the aid of the social employment center in Haradok.

08.04.2009 Supreme Court turns down Ales Mekh’s complaint

The Supreme Court turned down the complaint of the ex-candidate to the Chamber of Representatives Ales Mekh against the unlawful dismissal from job.

01.04.2009 Workers of ‘Mastoudreu’ plant are threatened with dismissal for meetings with oppositionist

The headmaster of the largest enterprise of Masty district ‘Mastoudreu’ Siarhei Asosau threatened the workers that he would dismiss the department where if he saw there the activist of For Freedom movement, deputy of Masty district soviet of deputies Dzmitry Kukhlei there.

01.04.2009 Teacher Mariana Hruzdzilovich is reinstated to job

On 31 March in the evening the teacher of SOL Minsk education center Mariana Hruzdzilovich was familiarized with the order cancelling the previous order of dismissal.

09.03.2009 Political activists are threatened with dismissals

Members of Svetlahorsk branch of Young Front and the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party are threatened with dismissals from work for participation in the constituent assembly of the BCD.

11.12.2008 Professor Andrei Kaliada is dismissed from Belarusian Academy of Arts for political reasons

Professor Andrei Kaliada has been dismissed from the Belarusian Academy of Arts because of his collaboration with Belarus Free Theatre and literary translations.

02.10.2008 Candidate from United Civil Party is fired from job

After participation in the parliamentary elections the candidate of the United Democratic Party Viktar Padchynenkau was forced to write a letter of resignation from his position due to a desire to terminate his employment.

15.09.2008 KGB ‘checks’ workers of Institute of History

In the second half of August and in the beginning of September KGB officers held a ‘voluntary’ questioning of workers of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus in connection with the 4 July explosion in Minsk. The ‘questioning’ was conducted in the working time. The KGB workers occupied the scientists’ offices and working places for it. Those who refused to participate in these measures are threatened with dismissal.

15.08.2008 Homel: procuracy upholds dismissal from work for oppositional pretender for candidate

One of the tendencies of electoral campaign’2008 is that potential candidates that are not nominated by the regime are threatened with dismissal from work or even dismissed. The law enforcing agencies usually close their eyes to such actions. One of the latest exampled is the reaction of the procuracy to the dismissal threats received by a pretender for candidate at Buda-Kashaliova constituency Kanstantsin Zhukouski.

14.08.2008 Homel: activist of united democratic forces Ales Sivakou is dismissed from job

In Homel the democratic activist Ales Sivakou, the head of the initiative group of Kanstantsin Zhukouski, is fired from Homelkhlebpram enterprise. According to the activist, the marketing director of the enterprise told him to write an application for dismissal on his own free will, because otherwise he would be dismissed under an article of the Labor Code and the information would be put in his service record.