News on the topic: detention
03.02.2015 Horki: police seize pensioners after anonymous report on their involvement in early election campaigning
Maryia Kiryienka and Tatsiana Siarheyeva have been taken to the Horki District Police Department. As reported by the women, they are charged with electoral campaigning.
02.02.2015 Former political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich detained by police
As it became known to the Human Rights Centre “Viasna”, at 4 p.m. on February 2 Aliaksandr Frantskevich was detained by police.
01.02.2015 Health care department finds no violations in detention of protester in Svetlahorsk
The Health Care Department of the Homel Regional Executive Committee has found no violations in the forced hospitalization of Yury Liashenka, a disabled activist in Svetlahorsk, who staged a picket in the city’s central square on 25 November.
31.01.2015 Most administrative detainees report rights violations at stage of detention
Human rights defenders arrived at a conclusion that the majority of human rights violations against persons subjected to administrative arrest are committed during the initial stage of their detention. The findings are based on interviewing persons sentenced to short prison terms for political reasons during 2014 in different cities of Belarus.
30.01.2015 Former candidate keeps appealing detention
Valery Karankevich, a former candidate for the Mahiliou Regional Council of Deputies in the Khotsimsk-based constituency No. 54 and a candidate for the district council of Khotsimsk in constituency No. 13, sent on January 29 a request for a personal appointment to the First Deputy Prosecutor General Belarus.
21.01.2015 Anarchists stand trials in Minsk
On January 21, the Leninski District Court of Minsk sentenced two activists of the anarchist movement to an administrative arrest of 15 days each.
19.01.2015 Activist to stand trial in Brest
As told by Andrei Sharenda, he was detained on a city bus on January 16. The policemen said that the activist supposedly looked like a man who had committed an offense and took him to the Maskouski police department of Brest.
16.01.2015 Andrei Sharenda detained in Brest
An opposition activist is charged with making printed materials.
15.01.2015 Members of Hare Krishna community are charged with use of obscene language
Several days ago, Polatsk police detained two members of Hare Krishna community and charged them under Art. 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, “disorderly conduct".
14.01.2015 Detained participants of punk concert sentenced to fines and arrest terms
January 12, three participants of the December 10 punk concert in “Pirates”, detained during a police raid, were tried by Judge of the Leninski District Court of Minsk A. Kamushkin.
12.01.2015 Raid on a punk concert in Minsk
30 minutes after the beginning of a punk concert in Minsk club "Pirates" the club was stormed by the police and riot police in masks.30 minutes after the beginning of a punk concert in Minsk club "Pirates" the club was stormed by the police and riot police in masks.
03.01.2015 Hrodna prosecutors justify the use of force by “voluntary police aide”
Civil society activist from Hrodna Volha Krapotsina has received a response from the Hrodna City Prosecutor's Office to her complaint, in which she asked to verify the legitimacy of actions of citizen Uladzimir Harelau and representatives of the police and give them a proper legal assessment.
30.12.2014 UCP Deputy Chairman searched at border
On December 28, Vasil Paliakou, deputy chairman of the United Civil Party of Belarus, was taken off the train going to Minsk as he was crossing the Lithuanian-Belarusian border. During a thorough examination, he was forced to take off his clothes and even shoes.
26.12.2014 Opposition activist Siarhei Kavalenka detained in Vitsebsk
On December 24, unknown activists placed a huge white-red-white flag on a high-rise building in central Vitsebsk, presumably in support of Yury Belenki, deputy chair of the Conservative Christian Party BPF, who has been fined three times over the past month for organizing a number of authorized rallies in Minsk.
02.12.2014 Iryna Motsnaya got detained at court
Iryna Motsnaya, a mother who was denied the right to continue raising her adoptive children, was detained while coming out of the Klimavichy District Court, due to alleged earlier insubordination to the police.
