News on the topic: search
19.01.2011 Search in Mazyr district
On 18 January Belarusian law-enforcement agencies conducted a search in the private house of Ales Kavalchuk, election agent of former presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski, located in the town of Kozinki, Mazyr district.
18.01.2011 Interrogations and searches still underway
Mazyr: the private apartment of Aliaksandr Kavalchuk, election agent of former presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski, was searched by the KGB.
18.01.2011 Viasna’s office raided again
Yesterday, on 17 January Belarusian KGB searched the central office of the Human Rights Center Viasna, as well as the private apartment and the country house of Ales Bialiatski. The searches were said to be conducted in the framework of the 19 December mass riot criminal case. It was a second search in Viasna’s office, following another one on 20 December.
15.01.2011 Details of recent searches in Belarus
KGB and police continue searching the apartments of civil and political activists within the framework of a criminal case upon Article 293, 'mass riot', concerning the protest rally of 19 December.
13.01.2011 KGB continues searches and interrogations
KGB officers held a search at the apartment where Iryna Charniauka, a journalist for the BelSat TV channel, lived. The apartment belongs to her sister. The search ended at 4.15 p.m. The system block of Charniauka’s computer and several CDs were confiscated. Then Iryna was taken to KGB, for an interrogation. She managed to tell human rights defenders that it can concern Aliaksei Mikhalevich’s case.
13.01.2011 Andrei Mikalayeu – another suspect in ‘mass riot’ case
Andrei Mikalayeu was detained at home in the evening of 11 January. KGB officers held a search at his apartment, took away the system block of his computer, a photo camera, CDs and DVDs and guarded him to the detention center in Akrestsin Street for 3 days as a suspect in the criminal case upon Article 293, ‘mass riot’, concerning the 19 December protest rally.
12.01.2011 Homel KGB continues searches
The Homel KGB officers searched the apartment of Yury Klimovich, an electioneering agent of the presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski and a member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Party. The search was conducted by four persons headed by Captain Andrei Melnikau. They took away Yury’s computer and materials of Rymasheuski’s electoral campaign.
12.01.2011 Brest: search at Zinaida Mikhniuk’s apartment was finally conducted
In the afternoon of 12 January investigators searched the apartment of Zinaida Mikhniuk, an activist of the Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry. They spent more than 1.5 hours looking through her things, but confiscated only a notebook with phone numbers of activists of the independent trade union. The computer equipment was confiscated from the trade union during the previous search.
12.01.2011 Hrodna: KGB search at BPF office is over
According to Vadzim Saranchukou, the Chairperson of the Hrodna branch of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, the search was conducted within the framework of the criminal case concerning the ‘mass riot’ in Minsk on 19 December. The formulation in the warrant ordered the investigators to ‘search the regional headquarters of Kastusiou’, though there’s no such body.
12.01.2011 Natallia Kaliada and Mikalai Khalezin are suspects in ‘mass riot’ case
The apartments belonging to the parents of Mikalai Khalezin and Natallia Kaliada, who are correspondingly the art-director and the director of the Free Theatre, were searched on 11 January, informs BelaPAN.
12.01.2011 Homel: computer equipment confiscated from Larysa Shchyrakova
KGB officers searched the apartment of the journalist from Homel Larysa Shchyrakova on 11 January. She is a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists and works with a series of non-state media.
12.01.2011 Hrodna: Viktar Sazonau detained by KGB
On 12 January morning KGB officers came to the apartment of Viktar Sazonau, an electioneering agent of the presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau and the Chairperson of the Hrodna city branch of the Belarusian Social Democratic Hramada. Their aim was to hold a search at Hramada’s office.
12.01.2011 Another search in the apartment of Iryna Khalip and Andrei Sannikau
The apartment of the journalist Iryna Khalip and her husband, the ex-presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau was searched on 12 January.
10.01.2011 Brest: Ihar Sliadzeuski’s apartment was searched and he was guarded to KGB from work
Ihar Sliadzeuski is the father of Katsiaryna Sliadzeuskaya, a civil activist who was sentenced to 10 days of arrest for participation in the protest rally in Minsk on 19 December. He is also the owner of the apartment that is rented by a civil activist Yury Bakur that was searched in connection with the criminal case upon Article 293 ‘mass riot’.
10.01.2011 Minsk: search at the apartment of Halina Yuryna
At 3 p.m. the apartment of an activist of the electoral team of Andrei Sannikau, Halina Yuryna, was searched. She opened the door to the investigators after the threats to smash the door.
