News on the topic: detention
07.09.2010 Baranavichy: detention of Anatol Liabedzka and Yaraslau Ramanchuk
On 7 September, the leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka and the presidential candidate of UCP Yaraslau Ramanchuk were detained at the central market of Baranavichy.
06.09.2010 Hrodna: detention for leaflets with Yaraslau Ramanchuk’s address to entrepreneurs
On 4 September, policemen in mufti were waiting for distributors of opposition leaflets in the mini-markets of Hrodna.
06.09.2010 Detentions of activists of Belarusian Christian Democracy
The Minsk police keep detaining the activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy who are collecting signatures for returning St. Joseph’s church to believers.
06.09.2010 Homel: detention for ‘Popular Program’
An activist of the For Freedom movement, Aliaksandr Protska, was detained near the Davydauski market in Homel for handing out booklets with the Popular Program of the presidential candidate Aliaksandr Milinkevich.
01.09.2010 Activists of ’Young Belarus’ detained in Brest
The activists of the Young Belarus Yury Batsuk and Yury Miashkou were detained in Brest on 31 August for handing out Aliaksandr Milinkevich’s book lets in Lenin Square.
31.08.2010 Havary Praudu activist detained in Salihorsk
Salihorsk police detained Tatsiana Kuchynskaya, activist of the Havary Praudu opposition movement, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
30.08.2010 For Freedom activist Kisliak detained in Brest
Brest police detained Raman Kisliak, activist of the For Freedom opposition movement, as he was distributing leaflets ‘It should not happen again!”, featuring information on forced disappearances in Belarus, Aliaksandr Milinkevich’s press-service reports.
30.08.2010 Detained UCP activists released without charges
Two activists of the United Civic Party Aliaksandr Stsepanenka and Pavel Jaravik, detained yesterday at Zhdanovichy market for dissemination of leaflets, have been released without charges.
28.07.2010 Salihorsk: ‘Young Front’ activists to be tried for 27 July action as well
On 27 July members of the Salihorsk Young Front organization intended to hold a traditional contest of asphalt drawings dated to the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. However, one of them, Ivan Shyla was detained at his first attempt to take chalk in his hand.
28.07.2010 Minsk: trials over yesterday’s detainees postponed to 5 August
Yesterday, on 27 July, the Minsk police detained Katsiaryna Davydzik, Mikalai Dzemidzenka, Andrei Kim and Viachaslau Siwchyk for participation in the street action in the Yakub Kolas Square dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of Belarus.
27.07.2010 Vaukavysk: detention of Mikalai Kavalchuk
Mikalai Kavalchuk, an organizer of the festivities dated to the 100th anniversary of the birthday of a Belarusian poet Larysa Heniyush, has been detained by the police and is kept at the police station.
27.07.2010 Minsk: detentions and beating at action dated to 20th anniversary of Sovereignty Declaration
The action was held in Yakub Kolas Square in central Minsk and was attended by about 20 activists.
27.07.2010 More detentions in Homel
On 26 July the Homel police detained Vasil Paliakou, Chairperson of the Homel regional organization of the United Civil Party, Yury Hlushakou, first Deputy Chairperson of the Green Party, a civil activist Larysa Shchyrakova, a member of the Belarusian Popular Front Valery Repnin and a representative of the Human Rights Center Viasna, Anatol Paplauny.
23.07.2010 Guy François Toukam: I wanted to kill myself after 40 days in Akrestsin jail
In his interview to the European Radio for Belarus Guy François Toukam told about the conditions in the Minsk jail, beating, prison food, racist jokes of cellmates and also noted having to pay $250 for 1,5 months of the ‘rest’ in Akrestsin Street.
20.07.2010 Detentions in Brest
At 9.40 p.m. on 19 July, officers of the railway police detained Viktar Chaikouski, Deputy Chairperson of the republican NGO Perspective and Valiantsin Lazarenkau, Chairperson of the Brest organization of the Free Trade Union of Belarus who were returning from a conference dedicated to discussion of the law on small and middle-scale business adopted by the Chamber of Representatives.
