On the eve of the presidential elections in Belarus the authorities have consolidated State repressions against opposition members, mainly youth activists. Youth organisations are considered to be a real threat to the regime as declared the chairman of KGB. That is why a number of young people have experienced the terroristic methods of the lawless regime. Recently four activists of Young Front have been imprisoned and put on trial as criminals on vain pretexts. A great number of people have been arrested after the election campaign have started. Подробнее >>>
Valiery Lievanieuski (Valery Levaneuski) was taken from Ivatsevichy prison to the Republican prison hospital, said Radio Liberty. According to the prisoner’s relations, the heart problems got worse after Lievanieuski had been on hunger-strikes to protest against the violation of his rights. According to Lievanieuski’s son Uladzimier, “he first started to have problems with the heart and back, but he does not know why. He decided to undergo treatment and get a medical checkup at the same time”. Подробнее >>>
Belarusian authorities have stroke the hardest blow on independent press so far. The only independent daily, Narodnaia Volia, faces the danger of disappearance. On 30 September, in his speech to the Defense Soviet, Aliaksandr Lukashenka stated it was necessary to protect Belarusian society from foreign informational expansion and “induction of instability by anti-Belarusian information resources”. Подробнее >>>
The leader of the Hrodna businessmen Valiery Lievanieuski (Valery Levaneuski) who is now serving a sentence in Ivatsevichy Prison asks the administration to open a chamber for believers of various denominations. Uladzimir Levanieuski, the prisoner`s son, told Radio Liberty about this initiative of his father. According to Valiery Lievanieuski, most of the prisoners are atheists and those who believe in God are mostly Orthodox. However, there are quite a few Catholics, Protestants and representatives of other denominations. Valiery Lievanieuski himself is Catholic. The prisoner`s son reminded that the father never was a staunch believer, however he went to church regularly. Подробнее >>>
After the hunger-strike the Hrodna businessman Valiery Lievanieuski (Valery Levaneuski) went to the prison hospital in the Ivatsevichy penal facility. Lievanieuski was on hunger-strike for a week since 1 June, protesting the imprisonment conditions. According to the information provided to Radio Liberty by Valiery Lievanieuski’s son Uladzimir, his father feels heartache and is undergoing a course of treatment. Подробнее >>>
Сегодня, 29 июня, в Минске в Верховном Суде Республики Беларусь рассматривается кассационная жалоба Президента Гродненского областного общества “ЛИОН” Валерия Левоневского на решение Гродненского областного суда. Особенностью данного процесса является то обстоятельство, что Общество защиты прав налогоплательщиков “ЛИОН” не признает декрет президента РБ от 26.01.1999 и не подавало документы на перерегистрацию, чем вынудило управление юстиции Гродненского облисполкома подать заявление в суд с требованием ликвидировать общество “ЛИОН”. Подробнее >>>
18.05.2000 в областном суде Гродненской области (к.19) начинается рассмотрение гражданского дела по иску Управления юстиции Гродненского облисполкома “О ликвидации Гродненского общества защиты прав налогоплательщиков, автолюбителей и потребителей “ЛИОН”". Общество “ЛИОН” существует с марта 1996 года. Благодаря данному обществу были созданы профсоюзы предпринимателей, информационно-правовые центры, молодежные, благотворительные, женские и другие организации. Уже в 1997 году общество насчитывало более 600 членов. Подробнее >>>