BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

26/01/2007

KGB refuses to return passport of Belarus United Civil Party leader

Igar Shinkarik, deputy head of the United Civil Party of Belarus, could not leave for Lithuania on January 24, as the Department on Citizenship and Migration of the Partizansky district division for internal affairs of Minsk informed him that his passport had been with KGB, online site Khartiya'97 reports.

According to the press service of the party, a week ago Shinkarik submitted the document for extending his exit stamp. In compliance with the pricelist, he paid for a year stamp validity and for urgency. He was due to collect the passport on January 24 and leave for Vilnius to participate in the meeting of democratic forces of Belarus.

According to Khartiya'97, a year ago it was Anatol Lebedko, the head of the United Civil Party, who faced the same problem with his passport collection. Then he wrote a letter to the KGB concerning the violation of his constitutional right of free border crossing and promised picketing the KGB building until he would be given his passport with a stamp back. Then he was asked to the visa department once again and collected my passport there, however the stamp was given for two years instead of three the applicant had asked for.

Source:

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1208

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