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 And as to the withdrawn property, there is no answer in essence.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 »

Dear delegates of the Congress of Democratic Forces.

To be or to not be to the Congress, a question solved. It is necessary to thank all those who has provided an opportunity of carrying out of the given forum. We live in the country, where the resolved assembly of citizens - event, and here the whole congress. It is a little philosophy. These reasoning, probably, will help in many respects to understand essence of the occuring negative phenomena in opposition. 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 »

Former political prisoner Valery Levaneuski has visited National Library of Belarus. It is remarkable, that creation of National Library of Belarus in a Minsk and creation of library in a corrective colony №22 “the Wolf Holes” in Ivacevichy’s area were conducted in parallel and in a competitive mode. In Minsk the head of the state initiated creation of library in 2002, in “the Wolf holes” political prisoner - Valery Levaneuski in 2004. The given competitions were won by library in corrective colony №22. The library in a colony has opened for some months earlier, than library in a Minsk. Read more »

In the beginning of this week families of political prisoners have been invited to a friendly reception in a residence of the assistant to the ambassador of the USA in Belarus to Jonathan M.Mur together with wife have rendered visitors hearty welcome. In friendly and easy conditions various aspects of attitudes of the USA and Belarus, development of cooperation between people and nongovernmental structures of both countries have been discussed. Read more »