Vitsebsk oblast: agitator detained by policemen with machine guns
12.09.2008.
Tags: detentions, Party of Communists Belarusian, elections-2008.
On 10 September Sianno district police department held an operation on armed seizure of a ‘criminal’ in the post office of the town of Sianno.
The ‘criminal’ was handing out to electors the Tovarishch newspaper and agitated for its chief editor Siarhei Vazniak, candiate for deputy at Sianno electoral constituency #30 (Liozna, Siannoa and Talochyn districts).
The detained ‘criminal’ was a member of the Party of Communists Belarusian Mikalai Piatrushenka, citizen of this electoral constituency. Being asked why they detained him, the policemen answered that they did it on the order of the duty policemen of their department.
However, when the administration of the district police department saw Piatrushenka’s journalist ID, they tore their badges out of their clothes and ran away and the duty policeman guarded the detainee out of the police department.
Human rights activists for free elections
See also
11.11.2008 Haradok: harassment of election observer
11.11.2008 Minsk: ‘Young Front’ activist is detained for action near Leninski district court
10.11.2008 Polatsk: youth activists to stand trial for anti-communist action
10.11.2008 Minsk: detention at action in support of tried ‘Young Front’ activists
05.11.2008 Svetlahorsk: opposition activists get fined
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