"After posting on the Internet conviction acceleration in Kiev peace "Maidan", after posting information that Belaruskaya Conservative Party "Bielaja Rus" condemned the crackdown in 2012, a peaceful demonstration on Bolotnaya Square and is going to join the international initiative on Memorial Day Acceleration December 2010 in Minsk, Vitebsk region prosecutor's office had issued an official warning for me to participate in an unregistered organization", - Vitebsk politician Sergey Ryzhov said.

An official warning, which was handed Sergey Ryzhov December 3, bears the signature of the deputy prosecutor of the Vitebsk region senior adviser George Koren'kov Justice. Policy is accused that he has repeatedly made statements seeming co-chairman of the Belarusian Conservative Party "Bielaja Rus" and the Movement "For the new world! Updated for the people" who are not registered in the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

"According to Art. 193-1 of the Criminal Code, the organization activities or participation in the activities of political parties, other public associations that have not been in the established order of state registration, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to six months, or imprisonment for a term up to two years" - said in a warning, which got the Vitebsk politician.

In 2011, the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) has recognized that Article 193-1 of the Criminal Code, on the inadmissibility of violations which prosecutors warned Sergey Ryzhov and which criminalizes activities on behalf of an unregistered organization, does not meet international legal standards. Belarusian and foreign human rights activists were not just demanding the abolition of this article of the Criminal Code.

Sergey Ryzhov said that the warning does not agree, and it intends to appeal to the Prosecutor General.