The reason of the crackdown on the opposition leaders, activists and journalists was a peaceful mass protest rally on December 19, 2010 in Minsk. Belarusian citizens were outraged by the shocking fraud in the presidential election, with the help of which the Belarusian dictator Lukashenko tried to stay in power. [http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/206250] [http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/208071]
It has been informed by "Viasna" (Spring) Human Rights Center that as of December 30th, 2010, 26 people have been joined to the officially so-called "mass riots" (or peaceful mass protest) criminal case in Minsk, Belarus.
23 out of them are kept in the KGB detention center, Gregory Kostusev and Dmitriy Uss have given a written undertaking to leave the place, Nikita Likhavid is to be taken from Zhodzino prison to the KGB detention center in the nearest time. The last on the list of suspects is Andrey Fedarkevich, who had been arrested for 10 days of administrative arrest and served the sentence in the temporary detention facility in Zhodzino, then was transferred to the KGB detention facility in Minsk. KGB officers are searching for Nikita Krasnov. A search was held in his apartment on December 27. In the search warrant it was written that the young activist was also "a suspect."
Almost nothing is known about the prisoners of the KGB jail. Lawyers have signed non-disclosure obligations. But even without that one can guess that rights of the arrested are violated. A lawyer of Uladimir Neklyaev, a presidential candidate, was allowed to visit him only after a week. Before that there was no information about whereabouts and state of health of the poet. Nothing is known about the state of health of Andrey Sannikov, a presidential candidate. He had been brutally beaten up, his leg was injured. Natallia Radzina, an editor of charter97.org, did not get any medical assistance. As the lawyer of the journalist informed, "She is still bleeding from her ears" from police beating.
On December 29 charges are to be brought against most suspects. The list of suspects in the "Mass riots" criminal case opened under Article 293 Parts 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code of Belarus [A note: Article 293. Mass riots. Part 1. Organizing of mass riots accompanied by violence against persons, pogroms, arsons, destruction of property, armed resistance to representatives of authorities, - is punished by deprivation of liberty for a term from 5 to 15 years. Part 2. Participation in mass riots, consisting in immediate participation in actions mentioned in the first part of this article is punished by deprivation of liberty for a term from 3 to 8 years.]:
1. Andrey Sannikov - a presidential candidate
2. Uladimir Neklyaev - a presidential candidate
3. Gregory Kostusev - a presidential candidate (under a written undertaking not to leave the place)
4. Aleksandr Atroshchenkov - a press-secretary of Andrey Sannikov´s campaign headquarters
5. Aleksey Mikhalevich - a presidential candidate
6. Vitaliy Rymashevskiy - a presidential candidate
7. Pavel Severinetz - an electioneering agent of the candidate Vitaliy Rymashevskiy
8. Dmitriy Bandarenko - a coordinator of "European Belarus" civil campaign
9. Irina Khalip - a journalist, Andrey Sannikov´s wife
10. Natallia Radzina - a journalist, an editor of charter97.org website
11. Anatoliy Lebedko - the chair of the United Civil Party
12. Anastasiya Palazhanko - a deputy chairperson of the "Young Front"
13. Andrey Dmitriev -Uladimir Neklyaev´s campaign manager
14. Aleksandr Feduta - a political analyst, one of coordinators of Uladimir Neklyaev´s election campaign team
15. Nikolay Statkevich - a presidential candidate
16. Aleksandr Klaskovskiy- a former police officer
17. Uladimir Kobets - a campaign manager of Andrey Sannikov
18. Dmitriy Uss - a presidential candidate (under a written undertaking not to leave the place)
19. Sergei Vaznyak - Uladimir Neklyaev´s electioneering agent
20. Oleg Korban - one of the leaders of the UCP youth organization, "Young Democrats"
21. Aleksandr Arastovich - Nikolai Statkevich´s electioneering agent
22. Anatoliy Pavlov - Yaroslav Ramanchuk´s electioneering agent
23. Sergei Martsalev - Nikolai Statkevich´s campaign manager
24. Dmitriy Novik - a participant of the protest rally on December 19
25. Nikita Likhovid - "For Freedom" movement activist, the decision to detain him for 15 days has been annulled. He is to be transferred from Zhodzina to the KGB detention center.
26. Andrey Fedorkevich - a participant of the protest rally on December 19, the decision to detain him for 10 days has been annulled. He has been transferred from Zhodzino to the KGB detention center.
Despite Christmas, Belarusian law-enforcement agencies keep raiding opposition offices and apartments of civil and political activists, adding to the increasing atmosphere of fear in the society. All over Belarus dozens of apartments and offices have been searched by the police and the KGB, including those of former presidential candidate Ales Mikhalevich´s wife, Charter ´97 editor Natallia Radzina´s mother, Iryna Khalip´s father and pro-democratic activist Viachaslav Sivchuk.
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