News on the topic: detention
21.05.2012 Activist cruelly beaten for support of Kavalenka
An activist of “European Belarus” campaign Andrei Mouchan was detained and ferociously beaten by police in Minsk.
18.05.2012 Siarhei Kavalenka’s wife detained in Vitsebsk
Alena Kavalenka, wife of imprisoned opposition activist Siarhei Kavalenka, has been reportedly detained this morning outside the Vitsebsk Regional Court building, where an appeal against the activist’s prison term is expected to be heard today.
17.05.2012 More Young Front activists detained
Young Front members Uladzimir Yaromenak and Pavel Siarhei were detained by Minsk police this morning, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
16.05.2012 Youth activist Amelchanka to stand trial on administrative charges
Youth activist Ivan Amelchanka was detained yesterday at Minsk Leninski District Police Department and later taken to a detention center in Akrestsin Street. He is expected to stand administrative trial tomorrow morning.
15.05.2012 "Young Front" activists: detained, beaten, sentenced to arrest
On 14 May the apartment rented by the "Young Front" activists Mikalai Dzemidzenka, Zmitser Kremianetski and Raman Vasiliieu was assaulted by the riot police. The activists were beaten, detained and taken away in an unknown direction.
08.05.2012 Bartosik and Simbirou detained. Simbirou sentenced to 15 days of arrest
At 1 p.m. near Chaliuskintsau Park people in mufti forcedly pulled musicians Zmitser Bartosik and Ihar Simbirou into a black Mercedes car.
07.05.2012 Ihar Simbirou tried for disorderly conduct
The musician, detained at a picnic near Minsk in the evening of 6 May (together with signer Zmitser Bartosik and 12 listeners), spent the night at the delinquents’ isolation center in Akrestsin Street. All other people were released after finger-printing and videoing.
07.05.2012 Musicians and audience detained at picnic near Minsk
In the evening of 6 May, musicians Zmitser Bartosik and Ihar Simbirou who were playing a private concert near Minsk, as well as other 15 people were detained at Zialionaya station.
04.05.2012 Polatsk: court deprives silent protester of driver’s license
On 4 May the Court of Polatsk and the Polatsk district turned down the appeal of Yury Rudkouski against the ruling of the road police, according to which he was deprived of the right to drive for two years.
04.05.2012 Brest: police disperse international anarchist congress
Police detained 11 participants of an international anarchist forum. Anarchists organized an international congress in Brest. Over 150 people from Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Belarus gathered at “Krasny Dvor” recreation centre on the outskirts of Brest.
02.05.2012 Police don't hurry to return Vadzim Kabanchuk's car
Minsk police still haven't returned the car to the member of the steering committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Vadzim Kabanchuk. The car had been detained on the eve of the Freedom Day action, on 25 March. Some printed materials and a streamer were confiscated as a result.
02.05.2012 Detention of protester against construction works in Uruccha suburb
Dzianis Kabrusiou, an activist of "European Perspectives" campaign, was taking photos of soldiers of special task forces, who were digging out trees on a place of the future construction site. He was detained at 9 in the morning, European Radio for Belarus reports.
02.05.2012 Detentions of Dzmitry Uss' adherents in Brest and Baranavichy
At 8.30 a.m. on 1 May Baranavichy police detained a group of civil activists at the central railway station. The activists were heading for Minsk in order to take part in a sitting of Dzmitry Uss' initiative group. Among the detainees there were Artsiom Babei, Viachaslau Bolbat, Aliaksandr Davydau and Ryhor Hryk.
30.04.2012 Minsk police raid movie screening by Free Theatre
Some 20 people were reportedly detained in Minsk this evening by riot police during a screening of the “Europe’s Last Dictator” documentary at a flat rented by the Free Theatre.
30.04.2012 Biarozauka police seize independent newspapers
On 27 April, the police of the town of Biarozauka, Lida district, Hrodna region, detained local activists of the Belarusian Popular Front Party and For Freedom movement Siarhei Trafimchyk and Vitold Ashurak, and seized 800 copies of the Novy Chas independent newspaper.
