News on the topic: BPF Youth
26.09.2008 Franak Viachorka, one of BPF Youth leaders, sent to military hospital
On September 26th Minsk regional military medical commission decided to send Franak Viachorka to military hospital. Let us remind the readers, on July 16th medical commission of the military enlistment office of Savetski rayon of Minsk recognized the youth activist ineligible for military service. However, the regional medical commission challenged that and sent Franak for another medical examination. Franak Viachorka told BelaPAN, he does not exclude his military enlistment soon.
02.09.2008 BPF Youth protest against education reform
On 1 September activists of the youth organization of the Belarusian Popular Front party held a protest rally against school reform.
01.08.2008 Smarhon: KGB interrogates former deputy head of BPF Youth’s Smarhon branch
On 31 July Vadzim Zharomski, former deputy head of Smarhon branch of the BPF Youth, was taken away from work and guarded to Smarhon KGB department. There he was made to give explanations concerning the blast which had taken place on 4 July. Then Zharomski was fingerprinted at the police department.
10.07.2008 Youth leader Ales Kalita is drafted to army service despite heart illness
Ales Kalita, the head of the youth wing of the Belarusian Popular Front, has been found combat-fit for military service. Such a decision has been adopted by Mahiliou regions draft commission today.
06.06.2008 Franak Viachorka is guarded to military enlistment office
Franak Viachorka has informed RFE/RL that he had been detained by the police when he had gone out of his porch. They handed to him a writ to the military enlistment office and videotaped it.
12.05.2008 KGB continues pressurizing youth activists
Recently a member of the youth wing of the BPF Party Ruslan Shoshyn was to have come to Sweden for a short-term educational seminar. However, he got ill and had to stay in Belarus.
05.05.2008 Vitsebsk: politically motivated warnings to minors
The commission on the cases of minors of Pershamaiski district executive committee of Vitsebsk has issued warnings to the 17-year-old pupils of school #38, Krystsina and Viktoryia Chyzh, after the sisters were detained on 16 April, at an action of solidarity with political prisoners.
22.04.2008 Members of Vitebsk BPF Youth fail to get recommendations for university
On April 21st youth activists of BPF party Aliaksandar Kuzniatsou, Yulia Mikhailava, and Viktoria and Christina Chyzh went for an interview for university entrants who plan to study law in Vitebsk pedagogical university. None of the BPF Youth members received recommendations. “We were asked why we want to become lawyers, -- Aliaksandar Kuzniatsou, leader of local BPF Youth, says. – We said we were concerned about human rights violations in Belarus, politically-motivated arrests, and persecutions of students. They told us, we would not receive recommendations. That proves, that people dissenting with the “general” opinion are not even allowed to take entrance exams”.
08.04.2008 Address of youth leaders to Belarusians abroad and to friends of Belarus in the world
Friends! The Belarusian authorities have tightened repression against democratic activists for the first months of 2008. Solemn peaceful demonstration on 25 March, dedicated to proclamation of the Belarusian National Republic’s independence, was broken up violently. Dozens of its participants were beaten up by riot police, more than 100 people were detained.
04.04.2008 Zhaleznichenka to serve in the army without oath
Zmitser Zhaleznichenka, expelled from Homel University after participation in oppositional movement became known, continues doing his military service, and as before refuses to take the oath for service.
31.03.2008 “They prepared you well in PBF…” or How college administration harasses youth activists
One week before the Freedom Day an extraordinary meeting took place in a dormitory of Minsk State Technological College. Deputy director for upbringing Natalia Shapavalava, social pedagogue of the college, and unknown official of the ideological department of Savetski district administration met for one reason: in one of the dormitory rooms several white-red-white flags, made by the students, were found. An immediate investigation of the “incident” began.
11.03.2008 Education Ministry Ignores Franak Viachorka’s Case
Franak Viachorka, member of the BPF Youth (Belarusian Popular Front), received an answer from the Ministry of Education to his claim against expulsion from faculty of journalism of the Belarusian State University (BSU). In particular, the letter says the claim of the expelled student had been sent to the BSU rector’s office.
06.03.2008 Court Upholds Drafting Zmitser Zhaleznichenka to Army Service
Today judge of Homel City Tsentralny District Court Zhana Andrejchyk hasn’t supported the challenge of the mother of the activist and found Zmitser Zhaleznichenka’s expellation from Homel University legal.
06.03.2008 Trial on Rehabilitation of Z.Zhaleznichenka at University
The first court hearing on claim of youth democratic activist Zmitser Zhaleznichenka against the Frantsysk Skaryna Homel State University was held on 5 March in the court of the Tsentralny district of Homel.
19.02.2008 ‘Cold, Hunger, Rats’ – Franak Viachorka about Conditions in Akrestsin Jail
Franak Viachorka, the chair of the cultural commission of the BPF Party, has been expelled from the journalistic faculty of Belarusian State University for poor academic progress. He did not manage to pass his exams in time because of 15-day arrest for ‘dirty swearing in public’.
