In the robbery and brutal murder associated with robbery, an unemployed 34-year-old Turkish citizen is accused, who, according to the investigation, strangled a girl from Bangladesh in Viciebsk. The Investigative Committee completed the investigation. The materials of the criminal case were transferred to the prosecutor for referral to the court. The sanction of the article of the criminal code, on which the charge is charged, provides for an exceptional measure of punishment in the form of the death penalty.
In Brasłaŭ on suspicion of corruption, Vladimir Dranevski and Elena Dranevskaya were detained – the chairman of the Brasłaŭ district executive committee and the head of the economy department of the district executive committee, respectively.
The case took place in Barań (Vorša district). Citizen Alexander Mukhin appealed to the police with a statement about the theft of hot water from the tap. To fix the fact of the incident, the policeman arrived at the call. But not one, but accompanied by three orderlies.
Independent journalists from Hłybokaje again were punished with fines for "illegal production of media products". Dmitry Lupach was fined 857 rubles 50 kopecks for cooperation with Belsat, Tatyana Smotkina for 1102 rubles 50 kopecks – from Radio Racyja.
The total isolation, which was created by the administration of penal colony No. 9 (Horki) with respect to Mikhail Zhamchuzhny, was finally broken: a letter from a political prisoner was received by human rights activist Tatyana Revyako.
Viciebsk ninth-graders Pavel and Sergey decided on May 19 to measure Lukashenko's rating, Radio Liberty reported. The guys came out with a poster "Beep, if you are against Lukashenka" on Moskovsky Prospekt, to see if they were often signaled by drivers.
On May 4, a search was carried out in the apartment of Dubroŭna activist of the United Civil Party Mikhail Chemurako, a laptop and a computer system unit were seized. Simultaneously, the second brigade, consisting of two local employees and one of Viciebsk in civilian clothes, described the property in the house where the activist's mother lives. A woman, a disabled person of the 2nd group, was under pressure, she was called an ambulance.
In the apartment of 28-year-old Roman Kuzmenkov conducted a search, confiscated office equipment and interrogated in the investigation committee why he wrote appeals to the district executive committee, criticizing the local authorities.
The only officially recognized place of mass executions in the 1930s near Vorša is the tract Kabylackaja Hara. But relatives of the repressed argue that they know other places of death of innocent citizens arrested and thrown in jails. In these places, relatives are offered to put memorable signs. They write about this in letters to the regional executive committee.
On May 6, activists of the Viasna campaign "For Clean Air in Navapołacak" Dmitry Solovyov and Tatyana Mastykina collected signatures for the modernization of treatment plants at the chemical plant "Polymir". After collecting signatures, the activists headed towards the plant "Polymir" JSC "Naftan" to take photo and video of the neighborhood, but during the video shooting they encountered an obstacle from the protection of the plant.
Eight Viciebsk citizens gathered for the day of the Constitution in private territory to talk about life and space and drink tea. But after a while they were detained by militiamen, taken to the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs and charged with violating the legislation on mass events (Article 23.34 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus). Administrative case was considered on April 19 by the court of Viciebsk region.
The organizers of the event explained the reason for the refusal by the lack of money they demanded by policemen for law enforcement services during the rally.
The administration of Horki penal colony No. 9 did not allow the republican and regional public monitoring commissions to see political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny.
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.
An ensign was sentenced to five years of imprisonment, because of the fault of a conscripted soldier at the Łośvida training ground near Viciebsk. This was reported in the Viciebsk regional court.
The court of the Oktyabrsky district of Viciebsk recognized Vladimir Lunev and Vitaly Skryl as guilty in "fabricating a fragment" of the media material. This was recorded in the protocol on violation by journalists of part 2 of Article 22.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
Youtube has another video to discredit Viciebsk human rights activist. He was published allegedly on behalf of the well-known "doctor-pravdoruba" Igor Postnov, who categorically denies his involvement in this.
Human rights activists became aware of the beating of political prisoner, the founder of the human rights organization "Platform Innovation" Mikhail Zhamchuzhny in Horki penal colony No. 9. On January 24, the guards left the man unattended in the corridor of the sanitation unit, where another convict severely beat him.
The white Volkswagen Passat CC caught fire at midnight on January 26. A few days later, information appeared on the network that the machine belongs to the video blogger Evgeny Kuleshov, the author of the project, about exposing the violations in the service station.
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.
A resident of Babrujsk, Natalia A., along with her 10-year-old daughter, came to the Rosinka sanatorium in the Miory district. The woman even in a terrible dream could not assume that the long-awaited vacation will turn into serious health problems. Natalia was looking for the administration building to move in. I went into the open door – and fell into the basement. Now a 37-year-old woman lies in the hospital with a concussion and broken teeth. Her daughter is recovering one, and also fell ill, while mom is not around.
Viciebsk region took the last place in the rating of enterprising regions, in which the largest number of individual entrepreneurs per 1 thousand inhabitants. But Viciebsk individual entrepreneurs earn more than others on agriculture. The study conducted the Kufar announcement site on the basis of official statistics and own data.