News on the topic: detention
11.11.2009 Vitsebsk: Barys Khamaida detained again
The police officers of the Chyhunachny district police department of Vitsebsk detained the oppositionist Barys Khamaida for distribution of non-state press.
09.11.2009 Navahrudak: detentions on suspicion in flinging paint on Lenin monument
In the morning on 7 November the monument to Lenin in Navahrudak was flung with green paint. Not far from the monument the police detained Daryia Bakhur and Yury Kazak, activists of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Party in Navahrudak.
09.11.2009 Detention for barbed-wire wreath
On 7 November the police detained the car of Yury Karetnikau and ordered him to drive to the Kastrychnitski district police department without offering any explanations.
09.11.2009 Preventive arrest of ‘Young Front’ leaders in Minsk
The Young Front activists Mikalai Dzemidzenka and Anastasia Palazhanka were detained in Minsk on 7 November. They were going to hold a street action under the slogan ‘Tribunal for Communism’.
06.11.2009 Biaroza: journalists detained at ‘Nioman’ glass plant
Policemen detained journalists Aloaksandr Dzianisau and Aliaksandr Khilimon at the glass plant Nioman.
04.11.2009 Ales Mekh complains about police actions
The civil and political activist Ales Mekh filed to Kobryn district court a complaint about actions of the police during the Dazhynki celebration on 19 September 2009.
04.11.2009 Vitsebsk: huge fines for white-red-white flags on Ancestors’ Day
Judge of the Kastrychnitski district Edgar Martyrasian fined Vitsebsk activists Taras Surhan and Siarhei Kavalenka 700 000 rubles (about $255) each.
03.11.2009 Vitsebsk: new arrests for white-red-white flags
On 2 November in Vitsebsk activists of democratic forces walked through the town with Belarusian national flags.
03.11.2009 Activists of BPF Youth detained in Vitsebsk
At about 3 p.m. on 1 November the police detained the activist of the BPF Youth Siarzhuk Zviozdachkin and the head of Vitsebsk oblast organization Aliaksander Kuzniatsou, both of whom were heading for Minsk.
03.11.2009 Homel: journalists detained for public poll on swine flu
The independent journalists Tatsiana Bublikava and Aleh Ryzhkou were detained in Homel.
15.10.2009 Police detained activist of ‘European Belarus’ Maksim Viniarski
On 14 October the police officers of Minsk metro detained near Maladziozhnaya station the activist of the European Belarus Maksim Viniarski who was handing out informational materials with the demand to release political prisoners.
15.10.2009 Uladzimir Katsora demands to punish police perjurers
On 14 October the head of Homel branch of the For Freedom movement Uladzimir Katsora addressed Homel oblast prosecutor’s office with the demand to instigate a criminal case against the police officers who had drawn up on him deceitful reports following his detention on 16 September. Later Katsora and some other democratic activists of Homel were fined by court on the basis of these documents.
14.10.2009 Fined for rally that didn't take place
On 13 October the Chyhunachny district court of Homel tried 7 pro-democratic activists. As BelaPAN informs, on 16 September 16 oppositionists planned to hold a rally of solidarity with the families of the abducted, but were detained by police on their way to the place where the event was held. As a result, the rally hadn’t taken place.
13.10.2009 Minsk: detained for chanting ‘Long Live Belarus!’
On 12 October the member of the Conservative-Christian Party BPF Siarhei Kavalenka was detained by the police.
12.10.2009 Navapolatsk: police detain participants of action against death penalty
Navapolatsk police detained the human rights defender Zmitser Salauyou and the youth activsits Alina Kucharenka and Yury Palonski during an informational action dated to the Universal Day against the Death Penalty within the framework of the campaign Human Rights Defenders against Death Penalty in Belarus.
