News on the topic: administrative prosecution
26.05.2014 Football fan fined over national symbols
Aleh, 24, a resident of Minsk, was detained at Minsk-Arena in the evening of 22 May, where he had come to see a match between Belarus and Sweden. The youth attracted attention by a white-red-white flag painted on his cheek.
26.05.2014 Yury Rubtsou declares hunger strike against fresh arrest
On May 22, the Court of Homel’s Chyhunachny district sentenced opposition activist Yury Rubtsou, who was released after 25 days arrest, to five days of administrative arrest. The activist is expected to be released on May 27. In protest against arbitrary actions by the police and the judiciary Yury Rubtsou has declared a hunger strike.
22.05.2014 Klimavichy resident appeals against biased decision of administrative commission
Alena Marchanka, a resident of the village of Domamerychy, Klimavichy district, filed today a complaint with the Court of Klimavichy district against the decision of the administrative commission of the Klimavichy District Executive Committee of May 13, 2014.
21.05.2014 Another detention in Minsk
Football fan Yauhen Manko, 20, was detained on May 8. The Savetski District Court of Minsk sentenced him to 20 days of administrative arrest. The young man is now serving the sentence in the detention center in Akrestsin Street.
20.05.2014 Journalist Ales Zaleuski to stand trial for working for Belsat TV
The journalist will stand trial in Karelichy District Court on May 28.
20.05.2014 Journalist Sentenced to Ten Days' Arrest for “Hooliganism”
Yauhen Skrabets, a member of BAJ, journalist for the Belarusian Radio Racyja and activist of the Young Front movement, was detained on Saturday, May 17, not far from his home in Brest and accused of minor hooliganism (article 17.1 of the Administrative Code).
19.05.2014 Food Not Bombs activist sentenced to 15 days of arrest
The court of Minsk’s Partyzanski district considered today the administrative case of Aliaksandr Kurets, an activist of the Food Not Bombs campaign.
19.05.2014 Journalist stands trial in Brest
Yauhen Skrabets was detained on May 17 near the house where he lives. He told about this in a text message, saying that he was held in the Leninski district police department of Brest.
19.05.2014 Klimavichy resident fined over criticism of administrative commission
The administrative commission of the Klimavichy District Executive Committee punished Alena Marchanka, a resident of the village of Damamerychy, by a fine of 2,250,000 rubles. The decision was taken at a meeting held on May 13.
15.05.2014 Aleh Kerul sentenced to 25 days of arrest
Consideration of the administrative case of activist Aleh Kerul continued in Pershamaiski district court of Minsk. The sentence is 25 days of arrest.
12.05.2014 Uladzimir Kumets sentenced to 20 days of administrative arrest
The administrative case of Uladzimir Kumets is being heard at the Leninski district court in Minsk Uladzimir was detained on 10 May, around 3 p.m. When the activist went out of his home and got into the car, a couple of unknown men in plain clothes blocked him with their car.
08.05.2014 Hrodna: Stanislau Rachkel, activist of “Malady Front”, sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest
On 8 May, administrative trials of member of “Malady front” Stanislau Rachkel and his friend were held in the Kastrychnicki district court of Hrodna. Judge Alena Toustsik-Samoila did not want to take into account the circumstances of the case and sentenced both young men to 10 days of administrative arrest allegedly for disorderly conduct.
08.05.2014 Administrative trials and persecution of civic activists continue in Minsk (updated)
The hearings on the administrative cases of four civic activists are now taking place in Minsk courts. Siarhei Matskoits, Nastassia Kukhto, Aliaksandr Arlou and Leanid Kulakou were detained the previous day and at night.
07.05.2014 When will the activists be released? (list of detained persons)
In general, the activists are being detained on purely fabricated, similar grounds such as “disorderly conduct" and “disobedience to the law-enforcement officials”. The courts conduct administrative trial proceedings formalistically, implicitly trust the law-enforcement officials and don’t take account of the evidence provided by the defense.
07.05.2014 Paliakou sentenced to administrative arrest
An activist of organizing committee for the creation of the National Bolshevik Party Alaksandr Paliakou, who was detained on 6 May in Minsk, is sentenced to administrative arrest at the second attempt.
