News on the topic: search
01.04.2010 Mass searches of opposition activists in Belarus
Opposition activists are searched under pretence of receiving an anonymous message about a possible terrorist act.
30.03.2010 Police raid apartments of Brest anti-Fascists
The Brest police searched the private apartments of a number of local anti-Fascist activists and seized several PCs, European Radio for Belarus reports, quoting Belarusian Helsinki Committee human rights activist Valiantsin Lazarenkau.
17.03.2010 Charter-97 editor-in-chief appeals searches at prosecutor’s office
Natallia Radzina, editor-in-chief of the charter97.org major opposition web-site, lodged a complaint with Minsk Leninski Prosecutor’s Office against a number of illegal searches and confiscations carried out by the law enforcement agencies on 16 March.
17.03.2010 Committee to Protect Journalists denounces police raids on independent journalists in Belarus
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Tuesday`s wave of police raids targeting independent reporters in Belarus.
17.03.2010 Police stage fresh wave of raids on independent journalists
Minsk`s police staged Tuesday a new wave of searches targeting independent journalists in connection with a high-profile criminal case known as a hunting case.
16.03.2010 SEARCH IN CHARTER'97 PRESS-CENTER
On March 16, Police burst in Charter’97 website’s press-room. Computers seized. Editor of site charter97.org beaten.
Policemen and people in mufti have burst in the office rented by journalist Natalya Radzina, justifying that by the fact that they are carrying out operative work in the case on the suit of some criminal.
17.02.2010 Working place of journalist Maryna Koktysh searched by police
At about 12.30 a.m. on 17 February the Belarusian Association of Journalists learned about the search in the editorial office of the Narodnaya Volia newspaper, at the working place of deputy editor Maryna Koktysh.
13.01.2010 Vitsebsk: searh in apartment of journalist Siarhei Serabro
Police conduct a search in apartment rented by Siarhei Serabro, editor of the web-page Narodnyia Naviny Vitsebska (Popular news of Vitsebsk).
11.11.2009 Anatol Liabedzka detained on Lithianian border again
The leader of the United Civil Party was searched at Kamenny Loh border checkpoint.
14.10.2009 Kazulin and Liabedzka get searched on Lithuanian border
The Former presidential candidate Aliaksandr Kazulin and the leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka were detained at the border crossing point Kamenny Loh.
14.09.2009 Secret services to become first readers of Pavel Seviarynet’s new book?
On 6 September Pavel Seviarynets, head of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, gave the manuscript of his new novel to Dzianis Sadouski for making a Xerox copy. Mr. Sadouski passed the manuscript to a friend. KGB and police searched the apartment that was rented by this friend.
05.08.2009 Search in apartment of member of Belarusian Christian Democracy
A search has been performed in the apartment of Yury Zhylko, member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party.
03.08.2009 Oppositionists are still detained on the border
The oppositional politicians Alexander Bukhvostau, Viktar Harbachou, Leu Marholin and Vintsuk Viachorka have been searched on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border.
23.07.2009 Belarusian oppositionist and his 11-month-old baby taken to militia department
Militia searched the flat of Kanstantsin Chuvak in Pinsk and confiscated his correspondence with officials and courts, political literature, CDs.
At 7 a.m. July 22, militia officers rang at the door to activist of the “For Freedom” movement, but he choose not to open the door and turn off his phone, as his baby was sleeping,” the website milinkevich.org reports.
Then the law enforcement officer used a hoist to get to the fifth floor. The militiamen showed Kanstantsin Chuvak a search warrant signed by the prosecutor and began to search the flat.
16.06.2009 Apartment of Young Front member searched by police
As a result of an unauthorized search of the apartment of Andrei Tsianiuta, Young Front Homel activist, the police seized various printed materials and a personal computer. The activist had earlier been fined for participating in a Mother Language Day rally. However, Andrei Tsianiuta was unable to pay the fine due to financial straits. As a result, the activist’s apartment was visited by court executors. After Mr.Tsianiuta refused to open the door, the executors call the police, who broke into the flat and, seeing independent newspapers and national insignia, called for an investigator.