News for 12 кастрычніка 2007
List of Activists Detained on the Eve of European March
Regularly updated
Supreme Court Upholds Non-registration of ?Young Social Democrats – Young Hramada’
In its verdict the court stated that the Ministry of Justice lawfully refused to register the youth organization because of defects in its charter. In particular, the court upheld the ministry’s opinion that fostering of nomination of the organization’s representatives to the municipal organs contradicted to the legislation.
Chair of Belarusian Language Society Proposes to Punish Officials for Destruction of Hrodna’s Old Town
At the end of September the Belarusian Language Society received an answer from the Ministry of Culture, department of protection of historical and cultural heritage. BLS had applied to the prosecutor’s office of Belarus concerning law violations during the ?reconstruction’ of the historical center of Hrodna.
Vileika: Activists Warned against Participation in European March
On 12 October the activists of For Freedom movement Mikhas Kulets and Ales Sudak and a member of the United Civil Party Uladzimir Maliarchuk were warned that they would be punished in case they took part in an unauthorized action on 14 October.
Homel and Hrodna: Preventively Detained Declare Hunger-strike
Several days ago in Homel the police detained the leader of Homel city office of the United Civil Party Vasil Paliakou and his deputy Uladzimir Katsora. Both of them were found guilty of ?dirty swearing’ and sentenced to 7 days of jail. Now they are kept in the temporary isolator of Homel. Katsora and Paliakou have declared a hunger-strike.
Mahiliou: Zmitser Salauiou Awaits Trial
In the night of 11-12 October in Mahiliou the police detained the deputy chair of Mahiliou city office of the Belarusian People’s Front Party Zmitser Salauiou and composed on him a report for ?petty hooliganism’. There they wrote that he had allegedly sworn dirtily and pissed in their eyes.
Viktar Ivashkevich Condemns Police Hooliganism
On 12 October three policemen in mufti were watching the entrance of the central office of the Belarusian People’s Front Party in Masherau Strret (former Varvashenia Street) in Minsk. They illegally searched those who went out of the office and confiscated from them informational materials about the upcoming opposition’s action European March.
Slovakian Charge D’affaires Speaks about 12 EU Conditions for Belarus
The EU is interested in Belarus’ joining the European community, Slovakian charge d’affaires to Belarus Lubomir Rehak told BelaPAN. The diplomat is a member of the EU Ambassadors delegation that is visiting Homel region on 11-12 October.
Review-Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Belarus in September 2007
In September the democratic opposition of Belarus was preparing to the autumn actions, the European and the Social marches, to demand from the authorities the realization of the social guarantees and familiarize the population with the EU proposals to Belarus and the conditions in which they could come into effect. On 30 September the United democratic forces intended to hold mass pickets all over Belarus. Official applications for authorization of these actions were filed in more than 60 towns and cities of Belarus. One day Salihorsk district executive committee received about a hundred of picket applications, half of which were aimed at protesting against the present social policy, the liquidation of social benefits and guarantees and others – at collection of signatures under the demand to release political prisoners.
Aliaksandr Atroshchankau Sentenced to 10 Days of Jail
In the evening of 9 October the police allegedly received information about smell of putrefaction from the apartment that was rented by Aliaksandr Atroshchankau. ?We came there, but found no body. There was already an investigative group working in the flat. Then we drove Atroshchankau to the district police department for identification, and he insulted us with four-letter words,’ testified at the trial a policeman Zmitser Kurylchuk.
Smarhon: Police Siege Activist’s House All Night Long
In the morning of 11 October a public activist Ales Dzerhachou phoned and said that a police car kept duty near his house all night. From time to time the police went out and walked near his windows with pocket flashlights. At 8 a.m. the car changed. The police continue the siege.
Women’s Party 'Nadzeya' Liquidated
The Supreme Court of Belarus satisfied the suit of the Ministry of Justice on liquidation of the Women’s Party Nadzeya. The official reason is that the party had committed a number of law violations.
New Detentions in Minsk
On 10 October the youth activists Mikita Sasim and Pavel Yukhnevich were detained in Minsk and taken to Frunzenski district police department. Most probably, it is another preventive detention on the eve of the European march.
Andrei Klimau Sent to High Security Prison in Mazyr
A political prisoner Andrei Klimau has been sent to the high security prison in Mazyr. Since 10 October till lately he has been kept in an investigative isolator in Minsk.
Czech Deputy Prime Minister: ?Even solving important energy problems we should not forget human rights’
?Even solving important energy problems we should not forget the human rights’, - Alexandr Vondra, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs of the Czech Republic declared, speaking on the international conference ?Responsible Energy for Responsible Partners’ in Vilnius 11 October.
Brest: Trials for Participation in Presentation of Seviarynets’ Book Continue
On 10 October Maskouski district court of Brest fined Anatol Yarmak 620 000 Belarusian rubles (about 288 US dollars). On 19 August Yarmak had been detained at the presentation of Pavel Seviarynets’ book. The trial of Yarmak was postponed several times because of the absence of the accusation witnesses. Finally a witness came to the court, but it was not the witness whose explanations had been attached to the case in the beginning.
Mazyr: Pavel Nazdra Detained
In the evening of 10 October in Mazyr the police detained a coordinator of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Pavel Nazdra.
Hrodna Suffers from Virus of Dirty Swearing
On 10 October in Hrodna the public and political activists Yan Bohdan, Yury Istomin, Viktar Sazonau and Zmitser Slutski were arrested for ?dirty swearing’. On 10 October the chair of the Union of Poles in Belarus Anzhalika Borys, followed their fate. She also became a victim of ?dirty swearing’.
Brest: Detentions for Information about European March
According to a youth activist Yuliya Pasheda, in the evening of 10 October the police detained the youth activists Inha Abramava and Yury Bakur who allegedly posted stickers with invitations to the European march that will take place on 14 October in Minsk.
Vitsebsk: Entrepreneurs again Ask to Permit Meeting of Protest
The entrepreneurs of Vitsebsk again ask the authorities to authorize their meeting in the place that had been specified for such actions, 30-hoddzia VLKSM Park, 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. on 29 October. About 500 individual entrepreneurs and their employees intend to take part in the action.
Homel: Vasil Paliakou Sentenced to 7 Days of Jail
On 10 October the judge of Chyhunachny district court of Homel Yaraslau Paremski sentenced the deputy chair of Homel oblast office of the United Civil Party Vasil Paliakou to 7 days of jail.
Yelsk: Police Detain Chernobyl Liquidator Vasil Siliverst
The detention was conducted by the local police inspector, police captain Uladzimi Serhiyenka, the sergean-major Siarhei Chyrun and two more policemen who did not introduce themselves.
Detention of ?For Freedom’s’ Activist Parsiukevich: New Details
The activist of For Freedom movement Siarhei Parsiukevich was detained in Vitsebsk. At the moment of detention he scotch-taped his mouth mutely, so that the police could not accuse him of ?swearing in public’.
