News on the topic: detention
15.03.2014 Participants of the project “Election observation: theory and practice” detained in Minsk
The project participants Hanna Azemsha and Palina Brodzik were to have held a training for election observers on March 14. They drove to the place of the training by car, carrying the necessary stationery and brochures for observers with them.
14.03.2014 Two opposition activists detained in Minsk
Pavel Vinahradau and Aliaksandr Artsybashau will be tried.
14.03.2014 Vaukavysk resident to be tried for solidarity with Ukraine
A Vaukavysk activist Vital Huliaka held an action against Russia’s intervention in Ukraine’s domestic affairs.
13.03.2014 Mahiliou police disrupt action “For Decent Roads”
The organizer of the spring action of motorists Illia Palonnikau was given administrative charges, the police took away two laptops during the examination of his apartment.
12.03.2014 Homel activists get jailed for solidarity with Ukraine
The Homel activists Zmitser Karashkou and Stanislau Bula who had been detained near the embassy of Russia in Minsk were sentenced to 15 and 11 days in custody respectively.
12.03.2014 Journalist detained in Homel for talking to people
The police detained Anatol Hatouchyts at the central railway station in Homel on March 12.
11.03.2014 BPF activist detained for white-red-white flag
March 11, BPF party’s candidate for Minsk city local council Yauhen Rybakou was detained at the site near Minsk Philharmonic Society building.
11.03.2014 Homel police detained social activist for distributing information for owners of private houses
March 10 in Homel the police detained an activist of the public initiative “Our Alternative” Andrei Papou who distributed the informational booklets “Don't Let Them Cheat You”, with information about the laws related to the dismantlement of private houses on the order of the authorities.
06.03.2014 Belarusian police marked their holiday day by torturing detainee
Late in the evening of 4 March, the Day of Belarusian Police, activist of the National-Bolshevik movement Dzmitry Paliyenka, who had been repeatedly arrested on fabricated charges, was detained by a police patrol near a fresh graffiti “Down with Police State!”
06.03.2014 Continuation of the trial over Viktar Sharshun and white-red-white flag
The Tsentralny District Court of Minsk held another hearing on the case of Minsker Viktar Sharshun, beaten by the police for hanging a white-red-white flag on his balcony.
06.03.2014 Maksim Viniarski sentenced to 15 days of arrest for action of solidarity with Ukraine
Maksim Viniarski, a coordinator of European Belarus, held a picket near the Embassy of Russia in Belarus on March 5.
05.03.2014 Baranavichy: activist gets detained for action of solidarity with Ukraine
On March 4, civil society activist Uladzimir Hundar held one-man picket of solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
05.03.2014 Journalist searched and questioned for six hours on the border
Pavel Mitskevich, correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belorusi, was searched and questioned by Russian border guards for six hours.
03.03.2014 Trial of pensioner Sharshun postponed to March 6
On Match 3 Judge of the Tsentralny District Court Valery Yesman, started considering the “disagreement of Viktar Sharshun to the administrative proceedings against him” - this is the formulation with which the Tsentralny District Prosecutor's Office of Minsk forwarded to the court Mr. Sharshun's appeal against unlawful actions of the police and the request to punish the perpetrators.
03.03.2014 Participants of protest action near the Russian Embassy sentenced to arrest terms
At 2 p.m. on March 2, activists of various social and political movements tried to hold an action of protest near the Embassy of the Russian Federation. They were met by policemen in civvies and paddy wagons. The dispersal of the protest action was directed by the head of the Minsk police, Aliaksandr Barsukou. All in all, 23 people were detained, including many journalists. All detainees were taken to the Tsentralny District Police Department. The journalists were soon released.
