02.02.2009 Alexander Barazenka detained

Alexander Barazenka, activist of the civil campaign Europena Belarus and a figurant of the ‘process of 14’, has been detained today in the center of Minsk.

27.01.2009 European Belarus activist Yauhen Afnahel arrested in Minsk

Activist of the civil campaign “European Belarus” Yauhen Afnahel has been detained in the center of Minsk.

According to witnesses, at 5.00 p.m., 5 or 6 officers of riot militia came up to the oppositionist on Victory square and asked to show his ID. However, they didn’t wait for him to perform their demand, pulled the activist into a car, and took him in an unknown direction.

The press service of “European Belarus” managed to phone the youth leader. Afnahel said he was in the Partyzanski district militia department of Minsk. He wasn’t said why he had been detained.

17.01.2009 Solidarity Day: Finkevich and Kastylenka detained

On 16 January, shortly after the end of a solidarity action plainclothes riot police officers detained leader of the Young Belarus movement Artur Finkevich and a YB activist Siarhei Kastylenka. The activists were distributing leaflets containing a list of kidnapped Belarusian journalists and politicians.

13.01.2009 Schoolmaster threatens ‘Young Front’ activist with imprisonment

Recently an activist of Homel branch of the Young Front Andrus Kuzmin has been called for a conversation to the headmaster of his school in connection to his detention during New Year celebrations.

12.01.2009 Salihorsk: police detain trade union activist

On 12 December in Salihorsk the police detained an activist of the independent trade union of radio-electronic industry (ITUREI) Mikalai Pakhabau.

12.01.2009 ‘European Belarus’ activists get arrested for handing out porridge

On 11 January activists of the civil campaign European Belarus unfurled a poster Crisis came to country! Handout! and brought a 25-liter pot of buckwheat porridge near Kamarouski Market of Minsk.

08.01.2009 Hrodna: detention and search of Uladzimir Khilmanovich and Viktar Sazonau

Human rights activist Viktar Sazonau and journalist Uladzimir Khilmanovich were detained at the railway station in Hrodna.

17.12.2008 BPF party activist detained, all information materials seized

On December 16 an activist of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Yauhen Soshka who planned to hand out the special edition of the bulletin of the regional party organization was detained in Brest.

16.12.2008 Five youth activists detained in Minsk

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16.12.2008 Riot police detained church minister for evangelization

Minister of New Life Church (Full Gospel Churches Association) Siarhei Lukanin was detained by riot policemen for evangelization in Minsk.

16.12.2008 Another Detention for Distributing "Novy Chas"

Distributor of independent newspaper detained at local administration

15.12.2008 Minsk: detention for distribution of independent press

On 15 December the police detained the activists of the Young Front Yuliyan Misiukevich and Aliaksei Savinkou for distribution of the Young Front newspapers Svislatskaye Recha and flags with inscriptions ‘Let MTS be in Belarusian!’

15.12.2008 Police detain busses with entrepreneurs heading for protest action in Minsk

Traffic police didn’t let two buses hired by entrepreneurs for a trip to Minsk out of Svetlahorsk.

15.12.2008 Slovakia condemns Belarus for harassment of human rights defenders

The Foreign Ministry of Slovakia condemns arrests of civil activists in Minsk on 10 December.

11.12.2008 10 December: chronicle of celebration (incomplete)

On 10 December the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was celebrated in Belarus. The event was marked by numerous detentions and other hindrance from the side of the Belarusian authorities.