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#1 | August | 1999 |
| FROM THE EDITORS We are glad to welcome all citizens at the pages of this bulletin. This edition will be printed regularly and in it we shall try to inform you about the processes taking place in Grodno and in region. The bulletin is created with the help and means of the young enthusiasts who have created only during one year a number of public organisations and legal centres. We are the students, lawyers, businessmen, working, pensioners, housewives, teachers of high schools and schools. Today our total number is about two thousand men. For such a large city as Grodno, it is certainly a little, but at WE have a lot of plans. ALL OF US are united by one thing – a desire to work together. Today we help to protect the rights of the consumer, we help when labour, civil, family and other rights of the citizens are broken. Our employees during one year have rendered the help to hundreds of people, have created a great number of trade-unions and public organisations and their regional structures. Engage OUR numbers, become the members of public organisations which protect right of workers, women, children, tax payers, consumers. On simple questions our lawyers will give you free-of-charge advice (Grodno, Telegraphnaya street, 5, tel. 72-11-73, on working days from 8.30 till 18.00), when the rights of the consumer are broken you can to receive a piece of advice and help at the Grodno municipal centre of protection of the rights at Grodno, Stefan Batory str 8-201 tel. . Only due to association of our efforts, we have begun to carry out the charitable actions under the common name «OUR CITY». While we have not enough means, so our bulletin will be printed in a small format. Read, criticise and praise us. How many people are so much opinions are. The main thing is that you or with our help could protect yourselves in difficult times, help a man who needs in your help, to learn to respect the interlocutor, neighbours, relatives and close. Attention!!! The charitable action - «OUR CITY» Dear sirs! We invite you to take part in the charitable action «Our city». The action is carried out under the initiative of the Grodno trade union of the citizens, of businessmen and persons working on hiring, of the United Civil Party in the Grodno region, of Grodno municipal centre of protection of the rights of the consumer, of the company “LION” and the Grodno municipal organisation – the Buelorussian Organisation of the Working Women (BOWW). The charitable action «Our city» began 21.07.99in Grodno at 16.00, near the Puppet Theatre (near Lenin square). The businessmen distributed balls (more than 1000) and sweets among children. The total number of the participants is about 5000 men. Up to the end of 1999 we plan to carry out some charitable large-scale actions. The plan of measures for first half of August, 1999: · Tuesday (10.08.99), Thursday (12.08.99) and 14.08.99 things and money resources will be gathered at the market "The Southern". Wednesday (11.08.99), Friday (13.08.99) things and money resources will be gathered at the central market and other markets of city. · From 7.08.99 till 15.08. 99 collection and distribution of things to concrete addresses. 15.08.99 (Sunday) at 13.00 distribution of things, balls, sweets, ice-cream among children and needy people (the market "The Southern", an asphalted platform between bus parking and grocery mini-market). · 15.08.99 (Sunday) at 17.00 distribution of balls, sweets, ice-cream, free-of-charge tickets on merry – go – rounds (at the expense of means of trade union) among children (the park of Zhiliber, near the Puppet theatre (Lenin square). It planned: to make 80.000 invitation cards and bulletins «Our city» to buy 200 (+1000-if there are means) tickets on merry – go - rounds and to distribute them among children, purchase 5 thousand balls, ice-cream and sweets, rent (purchase) of intensifying and other equipment, payment of work of volunteers and other persons who help to realise this measure. We shall be grateful, if you help and support the realisation of this measure. Than more means and more opportunities we shall have, the more scale this and other charitable actions will be. The collection of things and means will be made by trade-union volunteers with dark blue armlet. Those who want to hand over things under the sheet, can do it directly at the place. The appropriate document confirming his powers will be given to everyone volunteer. Those who want to hand over things personally, assist (at the home) can address to the trade union from 18 till 19.00 tel. (Stefan Batory str.8-201 the hotel “Neman”), or call to the pager tel. the subscriber #95200, address for the letters - 230005, Grodno - 5 subscriber box 63. Send in our address the lists of people who sharply need help. If it is necessary we can assist in the delivery of things. The questionnaires are lower. Each of us has unnecessary things, but these things, probably, can be useful for other people. Valery Levonevsky Tel/fax (0152) , pager (0152) subscribers # 95200, E-mail: levonevski2000@mail.ru How are prisoners kept behind bars? Or REALLY WE PAY TAXES TO BE INSULTED? As they tell: «One is never safe from misfortune and mishap». Each of you, your native and close can be in such conditions. ( This material has received wide publicity and was repeatedly printed in the Republic of Belarus and abroad) While you are at freedom, you still can try to change a situation in these organisations to the best. Especially, the conditions which are created in the special waiting-room "with the help" of the local chiefs of DDIA and the executive committee, contradict our internal legislation and international obligations of Belarus. So we should force these people who are obliged to protect our right and interests to carry out the official duties. We pay taxes. They, separate militiamen, workers of tax committee etc. are furuncles on our labour neck. Today a militiaman receives from 20 till 60 million roubles per one month, an engineer, a worker - no more than 10 million roubles. So they do nothing and get in 6 times more than our worker. And they dare to scoff at this man who actually maintains them. We shall make the most part of correspondence on this question on your court public. So, we shall continue. The underwritten letter is addressed to the authorities of city, AIA, republican authorities and, certainly, A. Lukashenko. We are offended with the conditions under which the persons, under administrative arrest are kept in the special waiting – room of the October District Department of Internal Affairs (DDIA) in Grodno In the special waiting-room of October DDIA in Grodno all sanitary and other norms concerning the persons who are under administrative arrest and established by the legislation, are broken. So, in particular: In rooms designed for 2-3 men, 10-22 men live simultaneously. In the same room they sleep, eat, satisfy natural needs. Completely there is no water to wash their faces and hands in cells. People sleep on a cold naked floor, not wash their faces, hands and bodies by hot water when they are in the cell (about two months). Water to drink is only unboiled, everyone drink water from one tankard which is never washed. The soap and toilet paper are absent. It is allowed to visit the lavatory only once per day and under an escort. The unsanitary conditions promote development of infections and distribution of infectious diseases. Any high-grade medical control over those who are in the special waiting-room is absent. The people suffering from the gastric ulcer, those who get over the Botkin’s disease and other illnesses, healthy people and people suffering from the infectious disease are in one small room, sleep on a naked floor. And they are compelled to sleep on one side because of the narrowness. To turn on other side it is necessary to wake the neighbour. People without certain place to live, criminals, people who are dependent on drugs and alcohol sit in one cell, "patients" practically daily have attacks of epilepsy or white fever. The light in the cells is bad, drafts, stench from decomposed wet, excrements, dirty bodies and clothes, it is cold there in the cold time of day, and in summer there is an intolerable heat. People eat once (!!!) per day - one spoon of porridge and some spoons of a soup, the grocery parcels are forbidden. Such norms established in the special waiting-room not only humiliate the human advantage, but also destroy health of people. The inhuman shouts of people who are tortured at 30-31 study of October DDIA from 8 o’clock in evening till morning and ask about mercy do not decorate a picture of the keeping in this special waiting-room. In the special waiting-room there is no any documentation stipulated by article 7 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus «About the protection of the rights of the consumer». Administration of DDIA and special waiting-room refuse to show the documents regulating the order and conditions of the keeping of people under administrative arrest, substantiation of the above mentioned norms of feeding and other documents concerning the belonging of the enterprise (special waiting-room), its activity and documents concerning the rights of the citizens under arrest when they are demanded by the citizens contained under arrest. Despite of it, the citizens pay 100.000 per day in the voluntary - compulsory order for "the services" in the special waiting-room in addition to money which are given by the state on the keeping under arrest. They are not practically brought out to work. In particular, the author of these lines who was under the administrative arrest was not brought out nor to work neither to walk for 13 day. Though on CAR of RB they were obliged to involve to work. The prohibitions on parcels including grocery, a prohibition on the appointment with native and close people, a prohibition on calls, a prohibition on getting of the books etc are not clear. Such attitude to people who are under administrative arrest is proved by nothing, as this citizen has all civil rights stipulated by the Constitution of RB and its laws connected with protection of health favourable environment for living, right on a high-grade feed, favourable environment the getting of the information etc. The State is obliged to protect the rights, freedom and interests of the citizens (articles 2, 21-25 of the Constitution of RB). These duties (on protection of the rights, freedom and interests of the citizens who are in the special waiting-rooms) are assigned to state bodies MIA and local executive authorities by the state. According to item 1 of article 15 of the Law of RB «About militia», the militia is obliged to accept necessary measures to protect life, health, honour, advantage, rights, freedom and lawful interests of the citizens from illegal encroachments. According to item 4 of this law the militia is obliged: to accept and to register the information about crimes, other offences and incidents, and to react immediately to the applications and messages about them. Militia and the authorities of the city refuse to carry out the duties as it is clear from these materials and facts. On the basis of above-stated I OFFER: 1) To stop the above described illegal actions concerning the citizens who are under administrative arrest in the special waiting-room of October DDIA. 2)To provide to the persons who are under administrative arrest with: · A high-grade three-single feed (if necessary, for sick people - dietary); · Visiting of the lavatory as required, but not less than 5 times per day: · Not to break sanitary norms of residing of the people in the cell. In the most conspicuous place it should be written how many people can be kept in the cell; · Everyone who are under administrative arrest should be provide with a separate bed, mattress, linen and other necessary things (on norms for hospitals or army); · Complete medical inspection of the persons who are in the special waiting-room; · These people should work or walk on fresh air for a long time; · Conditions for life and rest; · When it is time to wash body, face and hands not less than once per one week to take a shower with hot water; · Favourable ecological environment for living; · Drinking water separate tankard for water; · Access to hot water (for morning and evening acceptance of hygienic procedures); · Easy access to the documents connected with the conditions of the keeping in the special waiting-room; · Paper and pen for the writing of the of the complaints and applications for the first requirement; · Normal day time light in cells; · Opportunity to use the TV set, radio-receiver (brought from the home); 1)To have a dairy of registration of the oral and written applications of the citizens in the special waiting-room itself (18.05.99 there was no such dairy in the special waiting-room, the written applications were registered in DDIA with the large delay, the oral applications were not registered at all). 2)To take off the far-fetched restrictions on parcels including grocery. 3)To stop tortures of people who are in the special waiting-room and DDIA. To provide not less than two times per one week the rounds of cells by the workers of the public prosecutor’s office, the management of DDIA and medical workers. The note: For those who does not know: the author of these lines was arrested for 13 day on the accusation made beforehand by the authorities of the city «for the realisation of the non-authorised meeting to protect the rights of the consumer» and he tried himself the "Conveyor" on transformation of people in the stupid of animals in this special waiting-room. People there quickly "break". An atmosphere of lawlessness and lack of rights, humiliation of the human advantage physical and moral torture by the hunger, unsanitary conditions.... The security guards are glad to treat people better, but the heads of DDIA does not permit. It is the wildness of Middle Ages. The theme will be continued in the next number Look a photo: This magnificent beard is a modest gift of the special waiting-room of October DDIA in Grodno to Valery Levonevsky by the day of release |
