BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/02/2005

Belarus KGB slammed down an NGO financed by the US

State Security Committee (KGB) of Belarus has thwarted the activity of an illegal public association called Partnership Civic Initiative that was set up by an American non-governmental organization, spokespeople for the KGB press service said, Itar Tass reported

The Partnership was set up, managed and financed by the US National Democracy Institute, an NGO. Belarus law forbids the practice of financing national NGO's from abroad.

"Law enforcement agencies issued numerous official warnings that the Partnership's activity was illegal, and a number of its activists were brought to administrative responsibility from 2003 through 2005 but it continued operations this year, too," a spokesman said. The KGB instituted a criminal case over NGO's activity citing an article of the Criminal Code that envisions punishment for setting up a public association posing a threat to individuals or citizen's rights. The State Department condemned authorities in Belarus for their alleged harassment of citizens for exercising their civil and political rights.

Source:

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=699

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