News on the topic: search
19.04.2011 Mass raids on former servicemen
The police are performing Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s order to find people guilty in the terrorist attack.
11.04.2011 Authorities not willing to return seized property
The authorities seem to be unwilling to return the money seized by the KGB during a search at the apartment of youth activist Aleh Ladutska back in December 2010, after Minsk City Prosecutor’s Office refused to consider a complaint by the activist’s mother Mrs. Natallia Ladutska.
07.04.2011 KGB searches apartment of Natallia Radzina’s parents
Local KGB officers and an investigator from Minsk visited Natallia Radzina’s parents at home in Kobryn. They searched the house and seized the journalist’s notebooks, letters of solidarity from around the world, including the ones she got from the former Czech president Vaclav Havel and the Foreign Minister of Slovakia, Mikuláš Dzurinda. They also seized a computer of Natallia Radzina’s minor nephew.
28.03.2011 Police illegally seize property of youth activists
Minsk police seized private property of youth activists Yulia Yankovich, Ksenia Antonava, Dzmitry Yakubouski, Katsiaryna Erusalimskaya, Siarhei Huminski and Polish national Krzysztof Kirdzik, after they were detained and taken to Frunzenski District police department.
23.03.2011 Minsk prosecuting officials admit violation of search procedures
Human rights defender Vital Amialkovich received a reply by Minsk City Prosecutor’s Office, admitting violations of legal procedures during a search at his apartment in early January 2011.
16.03.2011 Valiantsin Stefanovich seeks recovery of property seized during KGB search
Human rights defenders Ales Bialiatski, Valiantsin Stefanovich and Uladzimir Labkovich have received official replies to their earlier complaints concerning the property seized by the KGB during a search at Mr. Bialiatski’s apartment back on 20 December.
28.02.2011 Borisovskiye novosti weekly keeps appealing police search
Representatives of the Borisvoskiye novosti independent weekly keep appealing the search at the newspaper’s office carried out by Barysau police on 10 January.
23.02.2011 Stefanovich demands consideration on the merits of his appeal
Human rights defender Valiantsin Stefanovich keeps appealing the illegal actions by the police during the search at Viasna’s office on 20 December, when his personal property was seized.
15.02.2011 Hrodna: search at Mikola Lemianouski's apartment
On 14 February the police searched the apartment of a member of the Belarusian Popular Front Mikola Lemianouski. The search was connected to the recent detention of his daughter, Veranika, who had been allegedly posting leaflets together with another young activist, Nadzeya Krapivina.
10.02.2011 KGB searched apartment of Dzianis Lazar
KGB officers searched the apartment of a Young Front activist Dzianis Lazar. The search was conducted within the framework of the 'mass riot' case.
10.02.2011 Zmitser Salauyou complains to procuracy concerning actions of KGB during search
Zmitser Salauyou, the Chairperson of the Mahiliou Region organization of the Belarusian Popular Front, lodged a complaint with the regional procuracy concerning the actions of KGB officers during the search at his apartment on 15 January.
08.02.2011 Search at Brest office of United Civil Party
According to a UCP member Marat Nestsiarenka, police and KGB officers started a search at the Brest office of the United Civil Party. The search is connected to the criminal case on 'mass riot', instigated after the protest action of 19 December 2010 in central Minsk.
07.02.2011 New searches and interrogations
Liubou Kameneva, an activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, was interrogated at KGB on 5 February. She came to the KGB department at 10 a.m. together with her attorney. However, KGB officers refused to admit the attorney to the interrogation and threatened they would treat it as a ‘refusal to give testimony’.
03.02.2011 Searches and interrogations non-stop
KGB officers of Salihorsk have interrogated Uladzimir Lemesh, an electioneering agent of Andrei Sannikau. The interrogation lasted for about 4 hours. Lemesh could not speak about the details as he signed the non-dislosure obligation.
02.02.2011 More searches and interrogations in Belarus
On 2 February two KGB officers searched the apartment of opposition activist Tamara Zaitsava. In the search warrant it was stated that she was a witness in the criminal case concerning the ‘mass riot’ of 19 December. The activist wasn’t present in Nezalezhnastsi Square that day, because she observed the presidential election at an election precinct in Kalinkavichy, but this didn’t stop the KGB officers.
