News on the topic: detention
07.05.2010 Kazulin to be tried for using obscene language near Supreme Court
Well-known politician Aliaksandr Kazulin, detained yesterday near the Supreme Court, will stand trial for alleged usage of obscene language there. The trial is scheduled for 11 a.m. on 12 May at the Leninski District Court of Minsk.
07.05.2010 Vitsebsk activist Siarhei Kavalenka detained
The official reason for the detention is violation of the traffic rules. On 6 May Kavalenka was detained for having crossed the road in a wrong place. However, when he offered to pay a fine, he was guarded to the police station. There the police drew a report for alleged use of obscene language towards the policemen who detained him.
06.05.2010 Detentions after announcement of verdict on criminal case against Autukhovich
Five people were detained near the building of the Supreme Court after the announcement of the verdict on the criminal case against Mikalai Autukhovich and other ‘terrorists’.
03.05.2010 Police apologized and paid 100,000 rubles as compensation
The transport police of Babruisk offered official apologies to Taisiya Kabanchuk, activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, for the violent actions of policemen on 25 March. The woman also received from them 100,000 Belarusian rubles as a compensation for an unused railway ticket and broken glasses.
03.05.2010 Activists of ‘Speak Truth’ campaign interrogated about 4 July explosion
10 activists of the Speak Truth civil campaign were detained on 3 May in the Peramohi Square in Minsk for coming there with air balloons with the campaign logo.
28.04.2010 Young Belarus activists detained
Young Belarus activists Andrei Kuzminski, Mikhail Naskou and Aliaksei Atroshchanka were detained for staging a protest picket for the extradition of the ousted Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev in Minsk’s central Kastrychnitskaya square, the independent Nasha Niva newspaper reports.
26.04.2010 Activists of Russia’s Oborona detained in Minsk
Three activists of the Russian ‘Oborona’ movement were detained by the police outside the Belarusian Popular Front’s central office in downtown Minsk. The activists were forced into a police bus. Their current whereabouts are not known.
26.04.2010 Free Youth activists detained
Two activists of the Free Youth movement Vika Ladzis and Aliaksandr Baradzinchyk were detained by the police in Minsk, ahead of the Chernobyl Shliakh demonstration due later this evening, the Nasha Niva newspaper reports.
24.04.2010 Mazyr: detention of candidate Frantsishak Viachorka
Frantsishak Viachorka, a candidate for deputy for the Mazyr District Council of Deputies running at the Stantsyinaya electioin constituency #25, was detained on 24 April near the Culture House 40 Hod Kastrychnika and guarded to the Mazyr District Police Department.
23.04.2010 UCP activist detained in Vaukavysk
The United Civil Party member Vital Huliak was detained by Vaukavysk police for distributing postcards of the ‘Tell the Truth’ public campaign and taken to the police station, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
23.04.2010 Akrestsin detention center to be equipped with blankets and pillows
The detention conditions in Belarus have repeatedly been criticized by both national and foreign human rights organizations. It is the civil convicts who are subject to extreme conditions while serving their sentences: overcrowded cells, lack of beds, showers, walks, inability to receive parcels, low quality of food and water.
08.04.2010 Vitsebsk: another detention of candidate for deputy
In the night of 7-8 April, the road police detained the car with Volha Karach, deputy of the Vitsebsk city council of the 24th convocation, and her husband Aleh Barshcheuski, on suspicion of carjacking.
08.04.2010 Police confiscated circulation of another edition of ‘Vitebskiy Kuryer’
The car of Vikar Ramniou, the founder of Vitebskiy Kuryer, was stopped by policemen in the Mahiliou region, on the way from a Smolensk printing house.
06.04.2010 Andrei Kasheuski detained again
Activist Andrei Kasheuski from Zhodzina was detained on 5April at about 7 p.m. on the Asipovichy–Minsk train.
05.04.2010 BPF Youth leader fined for action of solidarity with political prisoners
Andrei Krechka, leader of the BPF Youth, was fined 700,000 rubles by Nadzeya Navitskaya, Judge of the Leninski district court of Minsk, for an action on Kastrychnitskaya Square on the Solidarity Day, 16 March.
