BHC human rights activist got a ban on profession

According to an order of an employer, human rights activist Raman Yurhel, a representative of the Helsinki Committee responsible for the Hrodna region, was dismissed.

The human rights activist worked as a guard for Grodnoselstroiproekt, but according to the director’s order on –personnel reduction, he had to quit: Grodnoselstroiproekt’s property passed into the ownership of Main Economic Board of the Administrative Department of president of the Republic of Belarus; and Raman Yurhel says there was no place for him:

“I was given to understand that I won’t receive a job because I have a record of conviction. But this is not so, because I was brought to administrative responsibility which is lifted within a year. I got a fine 160 basic units, or 4.080.000 Belarusian rubles for organizing and holding an unauthorized event some years ago. I know that places of quitted people were taken by former officers of the KGB, Ministry of Internal Affairs and other people,” the human rights activist told Radio Racyja.

In accordance with the restructuring, more than 50 people at Grodnoselstroiproekt faced redundancy: some of them were laid off, some had to transfer to the main economic board on worse conditions.