News on the topic: detention
18.11.2013 Activists detained for anti-alcohol leaflets in Homel
The co-chairman of Young Front Andrej Cianiuta and an organization’s activist Stanislau Bula have been detained in Homel.
11.11.2013 Assault on Polatsk democrats
At 4.30 p.m. in Polatsk the police detained five activists of the Polatsk coalition of democratic forces, at the local office of the civil campaign “Tell the Truth!”: Yury Belski, Aleh Kraiko, Anatol Prakapenka, Anton Yasinovich and Yauhen Vilski.
08.11.2013 “Young Front” activist Raman Pratasevich sentenced to two days of arrest
Raman Pratasevich was detained during the trial of another “YF” activist, Dzmitry Dashkevich on 6 November. He was subsequently taken to the center for the isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street in Minsk and kept there for two days, as far as the courts didn't work on 7 November, a state holiday.
08.11.2013 Yury Rubtsou appeals his arrest and demands to be returned his T-shirt
Homel resident Yury Rubtsou filed an appeal to the Minsk City Court against the illegal administrative detention. The activist also requires the head of the Maskouski District Police Department to conduct an official investigation into the arbitrary seizure of the “garment with an inscription of a political nature".
06.11.2013 Citizens, detained near the detention facility in Akrestsin Street, released in three hours
On 6 November the police arrested nine people who came to the center for the isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street to meet the Homel resident Yury Rubtsou, detained after the end of the “Dziady” rally in Minsk and sentenced to 3 days of arrest for the alleged “insubordination to the police”.
06.11.2013 Zmitser Dashkevich sentenced to three days of arrest
“Young Front” members have been gathering signatures for renaming Lenin Street to Frantsyskanskaya Street (the historical name) near the central department store for the third day already.
04.11.2013 Human rights defenders consider the sentence to Yury Rubtsou as politically motivated revenge
On 4 November the Savetski District Court of Minsk sentenced the participant of the mass event “Dziady" (“Forefathers Eve") Yury Rubtsou to three-day administrative arrest. Judge Dzmitry Pauliuchenka, having considered the administrative case of the opposition activist, found him guilty of "insubordination" to police officers (Article 23.4 of the Administrative Code).
04.11.2013 Yury Rubtsou sentenced to 3 days of arrest for “insubordination to police”
On 4 November , an opposition activist Yury Rubtsou, detained while taking part in the yesterday's “Dziady” (“Forefathers Eve”) demonstration, was taken to the Savetski District Court of Minsk and charged underArticle 23.4 of the Administrative Code .
04.11.2013 "Dziady" rally held in Minsk
A traditional procession and rally in Kurapaty in the memory of the ancestors who died during the Bolshevik terror, was held in Minsk on 3 November to mark “Dziady” (“Forefathers Eve”). The monitoring of the action was held by members of the HRC “Viasna” with the participation of Belarusian Helsinki Committee and other volunteers.
30.10.2013 Journalists detained in Minsk again
Independent journalists Alyaksandr Barazenka and Maria Artsybashava were detained on Tuesday near the Pershamaiskaya metro station in Minsk.
29.10.2013 Marathon in memory of Stalin repression victims starts with detentions
Today, on the Day of Remembrance of the victims of totalitarian repression, police detained participants of a mourning marathon and journalists, Radio Liberty’s Belarus service reports.
24.10.2013 Good Cop or Bad Cop?
On October 23 the chairperson of BAJ Zhanna Litvina and her deputy Andrei Bastunets had a talk with the head of the police department of the Minsk City Executive Committee Aliaksandr Barsukou. The topic of the meeting was the detention of journalists on October 19 at the railway station in Minsk.
24.10.2013 More preventive detentions and trials ahead of CIS summit
Activist of the EuroBelarus movement from Dziarzhynsk, Aliaksandr Tarnahurski, was summoned for interrogation at 10 this morning. The police also detained an activist of the National Bolshevik movement Dzmitry Paliyenka. Later it became known that he was charged with disorderly conduct. As a result, the activist stood trial and was sentenced to six days of arrest.
23.10.2013 Activists of National Bolshevik Party detained ahead of CIS summit
The police organised a raid against activists of the National Bolshevik Party.
21.10.2013 Mass detentions of journalists in Minsk
Independent journalists were detained at Minsk's central railway station.
