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Homel: four people detained for collecting signatures

2011 2011-09-06T17:27:28+0300 1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300 en

At about 7 p.m. in Yubileinaya Street in Homel the police detained four civil activists who were collecting signatures for holding the People's Assembly in Homel on 8 October in order to discuss the political and economical situation and set forth proposals and demands to the authorities.

One of the detainees, Pavel Pryvalau, said they were taken to the police station in Savetskaya Street,97. They are interrogated by police major Koshman, head of the law and order section of the Chyhunachny District Police Department of Homel. Koshman said that the activist were detained because of a complaint of one of the signers that the activists collected the signatures in an improper way.

Kastus Zhukouski, a representative of the Our Alternative campaign who collected signatures as well, thinks that the authorities are trying to trade in political prisoners with the West on one hand and smother all civil initiatives of the electorate on the other.

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