Judge Yury Urban began to announce the verdict against Olga Stepanova on September 7 at 14:20 in the Railway District Court of Viciebsk. The verdict of the judge is 6 months of restriction of freedom in the colony-settlement for causing death by negligence. The defendant was changed the measure of restraint to a written undertaking not to leave, and she was released from custody in the courtroom.
On September 4, the senior investigator of the third investigative department of the Viciebsk city department of the Investigative Committee K. Kazimirskaya summoned a psychiatrist Igor Postnov, on the phone, for questioning in the criminal case initiated under Part 1 of Article 400 of the Criminal Code – "a knowingly false report on the commission of a crime". From the investigator's office, a psychiatrist was forcibly sent to the "Navinki" to undergo a stationary psychiatric examination.
Young people who accused the Viciebsk OMON in the beating, received fines from 5 to 15 basic units. This decision was made on August 24 by the court of Pervomaisky district of the regional center. The trial for this administrative case, chaired by Judge Natalia Korablina, was taking place from August 8, writes Tut.by.
A group of pupils and teachers of the gymnasium of German Nienburg helps in the improvement of the territory of the former Viciebsk ghetto and other important places for the Jewish community, said the head of secondary school No. 21 Sergei Zybin.
Alesya Furs (Umpirovich) died at the 92nd year of life. While studying at Pastavy Teacher's Seminary, Alesya joined the Union of Belarusian Patriots. March 25, 1946 for the ceremony of swearing the members of the organization to fidelity to Belarus painted "Pahonia".
"Your actions are correctly qualified in accordance with Part 1 of Art. 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ... There are no grounds for repealing or changing the regulations, "the chairman of the regional court Nikolai Hamichenok said after reviewing the supervisory complaint of human rights activist Leonid Svetik, who was punished by 15 days of administrative arrest for taking part in events that took place in Viciebsk 25 and 26 March.
Połacak began to delay the payment of pensions to bank cards. Thus, Priorbank delayed the payment of a pension for two days. Pensioners, who received a pension on the 7th, received only the 9th in August. Bank employees say that the Połacak Department of Labor, Employment and Social Protection did not provide lists for the payment of pensions.
"Vitebsk Spring" continues to acquaint readers with the conditions of stay in temporary detention facilities. Journalist Artem Sizintsev covered spring protests and trials of their participants not only in his native Vorša, but also in Mahiloŭ and Viciebsk. Law enforcement officials evaluated the activity of the reporter – he was detained on March 25 for Freedom Day in Viciebsk. The court appointed Artem to 10 days of arrest.
The fact that the political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny is in the quarantine of the corrective colony No. 9 (Horki, Mahiloŭ region), Viciebsk human rights activists learned from the short letter they received the other day. This is the third corrective colony in which one has to serve a prisoner of conscience.
On July 11, the Hłybokaje court ended the examination of the criminal case on illegal migration, in which UK citizen Alan Smith and two Belarusian citizens were accused. The judge re-qualified the accusation against the Englishman from part 2 of Article 371¹ of the Criminal Code to a softer part 1 and sentenced him to two years in prison under conditions of a general regime.