News on the topic: youth leaders
04.07.2008 Youth activist gets to mental hospital for refusal to collaborate with KGB
Activist of the youth organization Civil Forum Artsiom Zabaryn was taken to the Minsk mental hospital for examination after he had refused to answer questions of the KGB offices.
04.07.2008 Pavel Yukhnevich is imprisoned for seven days
Pavel Yukhnevich, activist of the European Belarus civil campaign, is serving his 7-day arrest in the jail on Akrestin Street in Minsk since yesterday.
02.07.2008 Democratic activist Katsiaryna Manchuk is expelled from Mazyr State University
The girl was called to talks in the dean’s office and was asked to stop her public activity. But the administration of the university insists the girl had been expelled due to her bad results at the examination period, RFE/RL reports.
13.06.2008 Baranavichy: 'Young Front' activist Yaraslau Hryshchenia gets fined
On 11 June at 4 a.m. in Baranavichy the police detained Yaraslau Hryshchenia for distribution of leaflets ‘Freedom to Kim’ and took him to the police station. There a report under Article 23.4 of the Administrative Code, ‘insult of officer on duty’ was drawn on him.
13.06.2008 Pavel Nazdra is not drafted for short-term military training?
Pavel Nazdra, member of the organizing committee for the establishment of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, was to have been drafted for short-term military training. The activist said it could be linked with the upcoming electoral campaign.
12.06.2008 Youth activists are haunted by military enlistment offices
The military enlistment offices have started to summon activists of different youth organizations for medical examination with the aim of drafting them to army service.
12.06.2008 Polatsk: police detain activists of ‘Young Front’
On 11 June in Polatsk the police detained five activists of the Young Front: Mikalai Dzemidzenka, Siarzhuk Karalionak, Ales Khaberau, Ales Krutkin and Katsiaryna Salauyova for unfurling a banner ‘Stop dictatorship’ opposite Polatsk city executive committee.
12.06.2008 Minsk: action of solidarity with Ivan Shyla
An action of solidarity with Ivan Shyla has been held today in the center of Minsk. On 4 June, before his last final exam, Ivan Shyla was expelled from a secondary school because of public activism.
11.06.2008 Nasta Azarka gets fined
On 11 June the administrative commission of Niasvizh district executive committee considered the police reports against the Young Front activist Nasta Azarka for posting stickers.
09.06.2008 Homel: police looking for escaped criminal at meeting of human rights activists
On 8 June Homel police thwarted a meeting of human rights watchdogs with activists of youth pro-democracy movement under a pretext of a fugitive criminal search.
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.
05.06.2008 Public demands rehabilitation at school for Ivan Shyla
Well-known public and cultural activists and politicians of Belarus have signed the open address to the minister of education Uladzimir Radzkou, the chair of the education department of Salihorsk district executive committee A.Rymasheuski and the deputy schoolmasters of secondary school #4 of Salihorsk V.Kashtalian and I.Yankouskaya.
04.06.2008 Salihorsk: ‘Young Front’ activist Ivan Shyla expelled from school. Schoolmaster quits to protest
The educational department of Salihorsk executive committee has reached an illegal decision to expel a leader of the Young Front Ivan Shyla from secondary school #4 of Salihorsk.
27.05.2008 Baranavichy: police beat 'Young Front' activists
Four national flags appeared opposite the city hall and the Baranavichy city executive committee in the morning of 23 May. After a while Yaraslau Hryshchenia, the leader of Baranavichy branch of Young Front, and his friends Artsiom Lastavetski and Piatro Ruzau were detained in the street. After the policemen searched Yaraslau and found two flags in his bag, they struck him down to the ground and started beating.
27.05.2008 Zmitser Khvedaruk gets 10 days of jail for celebrating Day of Europe
12 May Zmitser Khvedaruk, one of the leaders of the Young Front, was sentenced in absentia to 10 days of arrest for participation in the action on 1 May, the Day of Europe. Besides, he must pay a fine of 1 050 000 rubles (about 493 US dollars) for allegedly resistance to the police during the detention. He was informed about the verdict only on 23 May.
