News on the topic: detention
09.03.2012 Barysau: detention of Anatol Askerka and Ivan Shutko
At about 11 a.m. on 9 March police officers came to Anatol Askerka's home and took him away to the Barysau District Police Bureau. He managed to phone to human rights defender Aleh Matskevich and tell him about it.
09.03.2012 Detention of "European Belarus" activist
Alena Lazarchuk, an activist of the civil movement "European Belarus", was detained at the metro station "Spartyunaya" in the morning of 8 March, while posting portraits of political prisoner Andrei Sannikau who celebrated his 58th birthday that day. She was guarded to the Frunzenski District Police Bureau and charged with violation of Article 21.14 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of urban maintenance rules).
09.03.2012 Minsk: detention of "Young Front" activists
At about 8 p.m. on 7 March police detained "Young Front" activists Raman Vasiliieu and Uladzimir Yaromenka on Nezalezhnasts Square in Minsk.
27.02.2012 Tell the Truth activist detained in Slonim
On 25 February, Slonim police detained activist of the Tell the Truth civil campaign Mikhail Pashkevich, as he was distributing leaflets outside the town’s central market.
24.02.2012 Homel activists released without charges
Four activists detained during yesterday’s picket in Homel have been released without charges.
23.02.2012 Orsha road police detain BCD activists
On 22 February, Orsha road police detained four members of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, as they were going to Vitsebsk to attend the trial of local pro-democratic activist Siarhei Kavalenka.
23.02.2012 Homel riot police detain pro-dem activists
Three pro-democratic activists have been detained by riot police as they were celebrating people on the Defender of the Fatherland Day in central Homel.
22.02.2012 Pavel Vinahradau found in detention centre in Akrestsin Street
He is to be tried in the Maskouski district court of Minsk on Wednesday.
21.02.2012 Detentions ahead of Siarhei Kavalenka trial in Vitsebsk
Vitsebsk road police have detained a number of cars heading for the trial of local pro-democratic activist Siarhei Kavalenka, who is currently standing trial on sentence evasion charges.
16.02.2012 Radio Racyja journalist detained in Barysau
Alyaksandr Yarashevich, a Radio Racyja journalist, was detained by police in Barysau.
15.02.2012 Protestant priest Antoni Bokun appeals police assault on his house
The priest filed an appeal with the Maskouski District Procuracy of Minsk in connection with the assault on his house, committed by a riot police brigade on 8 February.
14.02.2012 “Young Front” activist Ivan Shyla detained in Minsk
According to the head of the “Young Front” Anastasiya Palazhanka, Ivan Shyla was detained by riot policemen – they pulled him into their car as soon as he went out of the PEN-center's Minsk office.
13.02.2012 Three activists of “European Belarus” detained in Dziarzhynsk
The activists of the “European Belarus” Uladzimir Dzenisevich, Anatol Zhuletnikau and Aliaksandr Tarnahurski were detained at 1.30 p.m. on 11 February, while trying to hang out a streamer with the inscription “Freedom to Bialiatski!”.
13.02.2012 Custom officers seize Andrei Bandarenka’s laptop
Andrei Bandarenka, the head of Platform organization was ordered to get off the train by customs officers when he was returning from Warsaw to Minsk on Sunday.
09.02.2012 List of detainees of Litvins’ club
Late in the evening of 8 February 2012 all 32 people detained in the Protestant Church “Ian the Baptist” were released from the Maskouski District Police Department of Minsk. Among them there were three under-aged – Vitaut Siuchyk and his schoolmates Kasia and Maryna.
