News on the topic: detention
21.09.2012 Tell the Truth activist detained in Minsk
Aliaksei Mikulich, activist of the Tell the Truth civil campaign, was detained this afternoon, while distributing leaflets calling for a boycott of the lections in Minsk, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
21.09.2012 Australian TV reporter detained at Minsk airport
Amos Roberts, reporter of the Australian TV channel SBS, was detained at Minsk international airport this afternoon, press-service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.
20.09.2012 Maladechna resident detained for displaying national flag (updated)
Maladechna police detained last evening local youth activist Ihar Liushtanh for displaying a white-red-white flag in the town park to mark the adoption of Belarus’ national symbols in 1991.
19.09.2012 Vitsebsk observer to stand trial for illegal picketing
Yauhen Hutsalau, observer detained on 18 September at Vitsebsk polling station No. 71, is facing charges of staging an unauthorized picket, as he is being held in the city’s detention center.
19.09.2012 Foreigners detained in Mahiliou, await deportation
A number of foreign nationals, representatives of youth political organizations from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA, were detained yesterday at a meeting with NGO activists in Mahiliou.
18.09.2012 Minsk police detain youth activists and journalists
Four activists of the Zmena youth wing of the Tell the Truth campaign have been detained this afternoon in Minsk.
17.09.2012 Hrodna police detain and charge Arche editor Valery Bulhakau
Valery Bulhakau, editor-in-chief of the Arche intellectual magazine, was detained during a presentation in Hrodna on 15 September.
14.09.2012 BCD activist detained in Brest
Zmitser Shurkhai, activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, was detained last evening at Brest central bus station.
12.09.2012 Viasna’s lawyers on new “creative idea” by police
For quite a long time now, the harassment of activists of pro-democratic public organizations through charging them with an administrative offence has been to human rights defenders some kind of a "standard": people keep being taken to courts almost every day. Of especially concern to the human rights defenders is the traditional sentencing of activists and participants of peaceful rallies on charges of "petty hooliganism" (Art. 17.1 of the Administrative Code).
07.09.2012 Another activist of Tell the Truth detained in Minsk
Aliaksandr Artsybashau, activist of the Tell the Truth civil campaign, has been detained this afternoon outside his house in Minsk.
07.09.2012 Former political prisoner Pavel Vinahradau detained in Minsk
Pavel Vinahradau, activist of the Tell the Truth civil campaign, was detained in Minsk this morning.
03.09.2012 Smarhon: trial of participants of action in memory of Rastsislau Lapitski
On 2 September civil activists of Smarhon marked an anniversary of the birth of the head of thena national underground resistance movement in Smarhon and Vialeika Rastsislau Lapitski, whom the Soviet authorities had executed by shooting in 1950.
31.08.2012 Crackdown on social networks: interrogations, searches, arrests
Pavel Yeutsikhiyeu, moderator of an online community detained by Minsk police yesterday, has stood trial on disorderly conduct charges and sentenced to five days of arrest.
30.08.2012 Minsk police detain moderators of social networks’ communities
Minsk police have detained a number of moderators of online opposition communities, including Raman Pratasevich, Andrei Tkachou, Siarhei Biaspaly and Pavel Yeutsikheyeu.
28.08.2012 BCD Secretary Dzianis Sadouski sentenced to 10 days' arrest
Dzianis Sadouski, Secretary of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, has been detained by Minsk police this afternoon, as he was transporting printed materials campaigning for election boycott.
