Responsibility for refusal to be fingerprinted imposed?

• 4.01.2010, 10:48

A dweller of the town of Byaroza tried to find out why he must be fingerprinted, but an administrative case was instigated against him.

The incident took place in an office of investigator Dzmitry Hukin, where Ruslan Sandrozd was invited to, Radio Racyja reports.

According to Ruslan Sandrozd, his bravery made the investigator wild. Moreover, there were a few witnesses in the office, who agreed to be fingerprinted.

A report drawn up in militia says: he behaved in an aggressive manner, insulted militia officer Hukin, threatened with punishment, firing from militia. According to the report, only militiamen were witnesses. The case of Ruslan Sandrozd will be tried by court of the Byaroza district (the Brest region) on January 4.

We remind that on December 17, 2009, the “council of the republic” approved the draft law on amending the law on state fingerprinting registration. According to the documents, all persons liable for military service must be fingerprinted.

Under the new law, all male persons liable for call up aged 18–55 will be fingerprinted.

It should be noticed that Aleh Pyakarski, the first deputy interior minister of Belarus, said in the middle of December 2009 that it was not planned to impose responsibility for refusal to be fingerprinted.

“At the moment, citizens of our country do not feel any pressure or influence to pass fingerprinting registration. A question of brining to responsibility may be considered later,” Pyakarski said.

Mass unlawful fingerprinting campaign has been started in Belarus after a bomb blast in Minsk on July 4, 2008. Belarusians are fingerprinted when they are invited to military enlistment offices and militia departments. The Ministry of internal Affairs began to fingerprint the minor in technical schools.