Security services add opposition activists to lists of “dangerous persons"

Blacklists of opposition activists have appeared in Babruisk.

A local activist said to human rights defenders that his friend from the security services had called him 20 names from the blacklist, Viasna human rights centre informs.

The list contains members of the United Civil Party, the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, the Belarusian Popular Front, the Belarusian Social Democratic Party, the Fair World party, Tell the Truth campaign and local independent activists and journalists. The lists are supposed to be sent to police stations, ideological departments, banks, etc. with a mark “dangerous unreliable persons”.

The topic of blacklists was raised last week by Anatol Sanatenka, the editor of Bobruiski Kuryer newspaper (the local activist claims his name was in the blacklist). The journalist filed a complaint to figure out the situation, but officers of the prosecution agency answered such lists did not exist.