Vitsebsk

People say it was done by order of the authorities

Vitsebsk-based photographer and historian Viktar Barysenkau was sentenced to 7 days in jail for sharing a photo of the event from 77 years ago in social networks.

On Thursday, the police raided the flat of Tatsyana and Kanstantsin Sevyarynets in Vitsebsk. Three security officers and some witnesses took part in the search.

On June 22, Pershamayski district court of Vitsebsk ended hearing the case of 36-year-old local resident Vadzim Yermalovich.

Women were detained for Nordic walking in the woods near Vitebsk

Death row inmate Viktar Paulau was ‘most likely executed’, the convict’s sister Raisa told Andrey Paluda, coordinator of the campaign ‘Human Rights Defenders against the Death Penalty in Belarus’.

Vitsebsk resident Anhelina Turavets was detained during the official event on the occasion of Victory Day on May 9. She was wearing a cloth mask with an image closely resembling a white-red-white flag.

On March 18, Pershamayski district court of Vitsebsk imposed two maximum fines under part 3 of Art. 23.5 of the Code of Administrative Offences on journalist Zmitser Kazakevich for ‘cooperation with a foreign media outlet’ without being accredited by the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.

In spite of the certificate about the stay in the TDF, the university administration claimed that he had missed those days without any valid reasons and dismissed him under the appropriate article of the Labor Law.

Uladzislau Makavetski, a 27-year-old artist from Vitsebsk, has been sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a minimum-security penal colony, our local journalist reports.