Information agency "New Platform Innovation" ("Platform") appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to react to the facts of pressure, which, to the best of the organization's knowledge, are being rendered to the political prisoner Mikhail Zhamchuzhny by the administration of the colony No. 9 in Horki. This was announced at a press conference on August 15 in Minsk by the director of the Platform, Andrei Bondarenko.
"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.
The Viciebsk city department of the Investigative Committee handed over to the court the case of a 30-year-old woman from Viciebsk, who, according to investigators, admitted the death of her newborn child through negligence.
About the fact that the head of the Vorša district executive committee appointed Alexander Poznyak, the official website of Alexander Lukashenko. The fate of his predecessor Leonid Penkovsky is not specified. Penkovsky worked in office less than three months.
"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.
According to the resolution of the employee of the Investigative Committee KS. Kazimirskaya, a criminal case against Dr. Igor Postnov was instituted on the basis of the elements of the offense provided for in Part 1 of Article 400 of the Criminal Code (a knowingly false denunciation of a crime).
The picket against the exercise "West-2017" was to take place on July 15 at 12 o'clock in the Park of Culture and Recreation of Railway Workers of Viciebsk in the central stage area – in a place specially designated by the City Hall for mass events.
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.
On July 3, around 5:00 pm in Lepiel, near the beach on Lepiel Lake, an 11-year-old boy was showered with sand. The schoolboy came on vacation to his grandmother and together with two peers left to play on the city beach. Children dug in a sandy cliff hole and climbed there. Suddenly, the ground collapsed and completely buried one of the boys.
In continuation of the topic of temporary detention isolators of the Vitebsk region, we quote the story of the co-chairman of the newly created BCD party, Pavel Sevyarynets. Pavel, as a former political prisoner, is well acquainted with the penitentiary system of Belarus. This year he was punished with 15 days of arrest after the "March of the non-parasites" in Vorša, which was held on March 12.
In order to optimize the structure of the penitentiary system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Navapołacak, the medical and labor dispensary No. 8 is liquidated and a correctional colony No. 1 is created on its base. The corresponding decree No. 223 was published on the National Legal Internet Portal.
A resident of Viciebsk, Oksana Isakova, says her son Viktor Seleznev and his cousin Alexander Kudryavtsev, who are serving their sentence in Škłoŭ colony No. 17, are in danger. The woman worries that their life is under threat. According to her, convicts demand a meeting with the prosecutor, but they are not given such a possibility.
In the spring of 2017, many civil society activists, journalists, human rights activists faced detentions and arrests. Taking the opportunity, we decided to find out about the temporary detention facilities (IVS) of the Vitebsk region and to make a series of materials about the living conditions of people in these institutions. In the next part of our cycle, Viktor Stukov tells about his experience in the IVS.
During the celebration of the City Day in Viciebsk, a car with a portrait of Joseph Stalin drove along the streets. Celebrations take place in honor of the 1,043th anniversary of the first mention of Viciebsk in the annals.
"Viciebsk Spring" continues the series of publications on conditions of serving administrative arrest in temporary detention facilities. Our next author is independent journalist Kastus Mardzvincau.
The best way to defend their rights – to send away those who prevents to do it. So says the leader of "Young Front" Źmicier Dashkevich, who, we recall, the prize for "freedom of thought" was presented on 17 June.
On June 14, a round table of the Public Platform "Dialogue" was held in Viciebsk. The meeting was organized by the Civil Accord movement, which appeared somehow suddenly out of nowhere, but has already held a similar meeting in Minsk.
We continue to acquaint readers with the conditions of serving punishment in the temporary detention facilities of the Viciebsk region. Vasily Beresnev, a human rights activist, a member of the BHC told us about how he was sitting in Vorša.
Inspired by the idea of human rights activist Pavel Levinov, who went to the temporary detention center in Viciebsk with a document from the BHC that during the detention he would monitor the conditions in the detention center, Viciebsk Spring decided to make his own monitoring. Fortunately after the mass arrests of activists in the spring specifically to sit on the "day" for this is not necessary.
On June 9, in the court of Zheleznodorozhny district of Viciebsk, judge Alla Bordyukova continued her consideration of the administrative case of Nadezhda Kukonos, an activist of "Honest Power", who was accused of insubordination and insult of a police officer while performing his official duties (Code of Administrative Violations, Article 23.4 and Article 23.5).