Edvard Balanchuk gets searched on the border again
27.05.2008.
Tags: human rights defenders, search.
On 1 May he was detained at the crossing point located near the city of Brest, for more than ten hours. The customs officers confiscated from him the money for ‘examination’. On 26 May he was detained only for 2.5 hours and no money was taken away.
After the detention in Brest the human rights activist directed complaints to the Prosecutor General and to the chairman of the Customs Committee. He believes that this correspondence will continue, because such actions of the customs officers are a manifestation of persecution and pressurization applied by the authorities because of his human rights activity.
See also
06.10.2008 Ales Bialiatski: ‘Authorities are no longer ashamed of observers’
02.10.2008 Co-chairman of Belarusian Christian Democracy detained at the airport
15.09.2008 Human rights center
11.09.2008 Human rights activist Uladzimir Labkovich questioned as a witness in the case of Minsk blast
11.09.2008 Brest: human rights activists and their families are questioned concerning 4 July blast
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