News from Belarus

“For last years, except for your application, from condemned prisons №1 and the persons taken into custody, did not act any complaint about discrepancy of norms of a fee and quality of given out products”. Such answer has been received from management of Penalty Executions Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus signed by the deputy chief of management U.E. Zezulja on the application “about necessity of acceptance of measures on improvement of a feed of the persons taken into custody, in prison (pre-trial prison) №1 of Grodno”. Read more »

The Grodno integration Office of Public Prosecutor considers a question on excitation of criminal case concerning employees of KGB. The basis for carrying out of check is Valery Levanevuski, repeated applications for fulfillment his and members of his family of penal acts have served as employees of KGB at carrying out of a search in his apartment on 5/7/2004. Read more »

Such answer from 7/6/2007 №04–2/1528 was received by former political prisoner Valery Levaneuski on the complaint to a verdict of court about the insult of the president of Byelorussia signed by the first vice-president of the Supreme Court of Byelorussia Fedortsov Alexander Adamovich. Read more »

Political prisoners today are kept in the Belarus prisons and insulators. All these people have suffered for the political views; they struggled for freedom of our country and today as never, require our solidarity. The quantity of political prisoners is measured in Belarus in hundreds. In Belarus for a long time there was norm a falsification administrative and criminal case. Before any significant events (elections, peace meetings, etc.) representatives of opposition are unjustly arrested in the street that ostensibly go and swear obscene abuse and punished in the form of administrative arrest (till 25 day). It is done that they could not take part in planned actions. Read more »

Courts refuse to explain on a verdict concerning Valery Levaneuski. The juicy situation has developed in courts of the Grodno area concerning a verdict of court Lenin area of no on charge of the leader of businessmen in the so-called insult of the president. We shall remind, that the Committee of state security in May, 2004 on demand of the public prosecutor of the Grodno area have raised criminal case concerning one of leaders of opposition for “the insult of the president of Belarus”. Valery Levaneuski has been taken under the guard. Charge on behalf of not the obscure public prosecutor - Panasjuk E.R.’s state accused has demanded the maximal term of the imprisonment stipulated by the law with special confiscation of property. Read more »

Under the complaint to a verdict of court concerning the leader of entrepreneurs the next answer, this time from Office of Public Prosecutor of Belarus has come. Apparently from the answer of the assistant to the general public prosecutor of Belarus A.V.Ivanovski absence of the victim on case about the insult of the president of Belarus is not the basis for a cancelling of a verdict. And as to the withdrawn property, there is no answer in essence. From concrete direct questions the assistant to the General public prosecutor has evaded. Read more »

Valery Levaneuski has faced with a “unexpected” problem for itself. Under the law the citizen of Belorus at disagreement with a verdict of court on criminal case can address with the complaint in Committee under human rights of the United Nations. In this question lawyers in Belarus are obliged to render legal aid. Private lawyers in Belarus are liquidated, and state do not wish to prosecute such subjects. Read more »

7 May, 2004 in Grodno employees of KGB at support of special division of riot police have cracked doors in Valery Levaneuski’s apartment, have conducted a search, have withdrawn a plenty of property and have taken away minor daughter in a unknown direction. Read more »

During three years nothing has changed. Today on May, 1st, 2007 militia UAZ, as well as three years ago is on duty near the house of the known politician, the leader of entrepreneurs Valery Levaneuski. The militias post at an apartment of the former political prisoner has renewed the work. It is visible, that authorities are strongly frightened, and are afraid of recurrence of mass peace performances of citizens for which have been condemned for two years of imprisonment Valery Levaneuski and Alexander Vasilev in 2004. Read more »

It is not only a position of the assistant to the assistant to the state secretary of the USA on affairs of the Europe and Eurasia David Kramer, but also all management of the USA. Discussion of the given theme took place last week, during personal meeting former political prisoner Valery Levaneuski and the representative of a department of state. As has explained D.Kramer, the USA will insist on a cancelling of all verdicts which have been taken out on political grounds and on rehabilitation of victims political reprisals, on indemnification of harm to families of the subjected to repression families and on attraction of the persons participating in reprisals, to the responsibility. Read more »