On March 12, near the Belarusian embassy in London, a picket was held in support of British citizen Alan Smith, who is serving time in correctional colony No. 3 near Viciebsk on charges of organizing illegal migration.
In the Viciebsk regional court on January 25, the second hearing of the criminal case of Olga Stepanova, previously convicted for the death of the child at home birth, was completed. The case was considered in closed mode. The judge of the regional court Galina Bondal announced a verdict in which Olga Stepanova was found not guilty in connection with the absence of a crime.
Human rights activist Pavel Levinov received information that the Viciebsk regional court on September 22, 2017 was sentenced to death. It came into force on October 6, 2017. This verdict was not appealed or protested. The convicted person in the Viciebsk case is placed in the Detention Unit No. 1 in Minsk.
A meeting with media expert Pavlyuk Bykovskiy was organized by the Hłybokaje Department of the Belarusian Association of Journalists. Participation in it was received by journalists and public activists from Hłybokaje, Lepiel, Połacak and Brasłaŭ.
After the world media ignored the appearance of radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 in the air of many countries in Europe, Viciebsk human rights activist Leonid Svetik addressed a number of government departments to find out what measures these departments took to minimize the consequences of radiation contamination of the area.
In the State Control Committee of the Viciebsk region, the results of the inspection of OJSC Połacak-Torg, which serves 15 educational institutions in Połacak, almost 8,500 people, were announced.
Infringements of the legislation on struggle against corruption in committee on architecture and building of the Viciebsk regional executive committee and in the enterprises subordinated to it have revealed the check spent by regional Office of Public Prosecutor.
On December 7, Ekaterina Voinova, the head of the Housing and Communal Services Department of the Viciebsk district, drafted a protocol on administrative violation by citizen Jan Derzhavtsev. According to the protocol, the activist violated the rules of burial of human remains, so he buried in a place not intended for this. Now the trial awaits him.
On November 8, Andrei Sidyuk, 39, the administrator of the housing and communal service "Połacak Housing and Utilities", who is also a deputy of the Połacak District Council, terminated the contract for damaging circumstances.
The request to the UCP activists in Miory received a refusal, the picket "Stop hazing in the army and the country!" Was not allowed by the authorities. They explained this by the absence of contracts with the police, doctors and housing and communal services.