09.08.2010 Human rights activist Valery Schukin detained in Mahiliou

A human rights activist Valery Schukin has been detained in Mahiliou. He is being kept in Lenin District police office, reports Radio Liberty.

09.08.2010 Police seize newspaper Krynica in Hrodna

Mikola Bausyuk, a coordinator of the committee to organize the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, was detained in Hrodna, carrying the copies of Krynica newspaper, reports Radio Svaboda.

09.08.2010 Opposition activist arrested in Minsk. Criminal case initiated

Mikhail Bashura, an activist of Tell the Truth campaign, was detained at his apartment’s doors on August 6.

Radio Svaboda learnt this from Bashura’s associate Aleh Myatelitsa.

06.08.2010 Young Front activist fired for civil activity

Yaraslau Hryshchenia, activist of the unregistered Young Front youth opposition movement, has been dismissed from work for involvement in opposition activities. The activist has been reportedly fired for contributing to an exhibition of political satire posters arranged by the Belarusian Popular Front Minsk office.

06.08.2010 July 27 action participants get fines for petty hooliganizm

Participants of the action to mark 20 years of Belarus' Declaration of Independence have been fined by Sovietski District Court in Minsk.

05.08.2010 The prosecution of Teresa Sobol is reinstated

The public prosecutor's office reinstated the prosecution of the Chairman of Ivyanets office of House of Union of Poles in Belarus Teresa Sobol.

It was reported by Andrzej Poczobut, an activist of House of Union of Poles in his blog.

04.08.2010 Youth NGOs propose draft on alternative service

A number of Belarusian youth organizations, including ‘Civil Forum’, ‘Young Democrats’, ‘Movement of Future’, ‘Young Front’, as well as several human rights groups (‘Center for Legal Transformation’, and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee), have developed a draft bill on alternative service, an option provided by Article 57 of the Constitution, but not applied in reality as yet, the Young Front press-service reports.

04.08.2010 Security Council states youth and Internet are getting “politicized”

In the magazine “Belaruskaya Dumka” (A Belarusian Thought) Top Advisor of the State Secretariat of the Security Council Ihar Paddubski has published an article “Some aspects of radical formations’ activities”.

“Despite of a low popularity of radical ideas among the young, none of the really active unregistered structures have stopped its activities voluntarily. More than 10 youth radical formations continue their functioning in the country,” writes an expert on political extremis, and theoretical and practical aspects of counterterrorism, how the author was presented by the magazine.

03.08.2010 BCD activist summoned for interrogation

Belarusian Christian Democracy Vitsebsk activist Ales Halavan was summoned for a confrontation with a robber who attacked him three years ago. However, the activist says a provocation is being plotted by the police.

03.08.2010 Norwegian footsal federation indignant at cruel detention conditions of Toukam

Kurt Hartvetd, chair of Norwegian footsal club association IFS, addressed the Human Rights Center ‘Viasna’ with a letter, expressing his indignation at the severe detention conditions of goalkeeper Guy Francois Toukam. The footsal official says the Belarusian authorities should provide explanations for the 40-day detention of the goalkeeper.

02.08.2010 Youth activist Azarka faces civil charges

Nastassia Azarka, head of ‘Young Belarus’ Niasvizh office, will stand trial for violating residential care regulations. On 30 July she was summoned to Niasvizh town police department and officially charged under Article 23.14 of the Civil Code.

02.08.2010 OSCE criticizes mass media freedom in Belarus

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovich has come out in the support of Belarusian journalists.

On 30 July, Dunja Mijatovich has delivered her first report at the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna. In the report on two dozens of the OSCE participating States, to which Mijatovich addressed with different questions concerning freedom of mass media, Belarus is mentioned as well, Radio Svaboda informs.

02.08.2010 Young people in Belarus arrested for national symbols

On August 1 two Young Front activists were detained in the town of Barysau for propagation of national symbols.

On Sunday evening policemen detained Hanna Sharuba and Uladzislau Yaryomenka in Barysau. The Young Front members were decorating the town with national symbols, the press-service of the Young Front informs.