09.07.2010 Goalkeeper of Norwegian Football Club is still in Minsk jail

Inmaculada Gonzales, Spanish girlfriend of the Cameroonian Guy Francois Toukam (goalkeeper of the Norwegian football club IOF) informed the Human Rights Center Viasna that she had passed the money for paying his fine and the return ticket to Spain for him (as Mr. Toukam has a Spanish residence permit) through the Honorary Consul of Spain in Minsk. Bear in mind that the goalkeeper was detained at the Minsk-2 airport ahead of the football match on suspicion in forgery of the passport.

09.07.2010 Clear-up before ‘Slavonic Bazaar’: Kavalenka brothers detained in Vitsebsk

Siarhei Kavalenka, activist of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front was detained in the evening of 8 July. According to his mother, Lidziya Kavalenka, it happened at about 9 p.m. near his house.

09.07.2010 Car of leaders of the Union of Poles searched for firearms

The present leader of the disgraced Union of Poles in Belarus, Anzelika Orechva, and her deputy, Andrei Pachobut, were detained on 8 July afternoon in Slonim and guarded to the Slonim District Police Department.

05.07.2010 BSU rector reprimands ‘Young Front’ activist

On 14 May, the first day of the City Is Ours campaign, launched by the Young Front, a student of the physical faculty of Belarusian State University Yulyan Misiukevich was detained by the riot police. He was accused of using obscene language and fined.

05.07.2010 Attempt to detain Artur Finkevich

People in mufti tried to detain the leader of the Young Belarus movement, Artur Finkevich, and Nasta Mashchava, a coordinator of the movement.

05.07.2010 Minsk: detention of activists of ‘Speak Truth’ campaign

On 3 July, activists of the civil campaign Speak Truth laid down flowers to the Chaliuskintsy monument and the Military cemetery where victims of the Soviet regime and World War II were buried as well as the Belarusian poets Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala.

02.07.2010 BCD activist detained at pilgrimage in Budslau

On 1 July, an activist of the Party of Belarusian Christian Democracy, Kastus Shytal, was detained in the village of the Budslau in the Miadzel district of the Minsk region during the traditional festivities in honor of the icon of Our Lay of Budslau.

01.07.2010 Detained ‘Young Front’ activist complains about police boundlessness

At 12.45 a.m. Uladzimir Yaromenka, a Young Front activist, was detained by the police near the Kamarouski market in Minsk for posting stickers.

25.06.2010 Young Front activists detained in Minsk

Today, on 25 June the Minsk police detained two members of the unregistered ‘Young Front’ youth movement Alena Makarevich and Zmitser Yasevich, as they were distributing red-white-red flags, stickers and leaflets as part of the ‘City is Ours’ civil campaign, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.

24.06.2010 Belarusian national Bolsheviks detained for protests against decree #60

The national Bolsheviks organized a street action in Minsk in the evening of June 23 against decree #60 on regulation of the Internet.

The action ended with detentions of the participants, BelaPAN reports.

17.06.2010 Detentions on Solidarity Day

Two activists of the ‘European Belarus’ youth movement – Andrei Ilyushyn and Maksim Viniarski – were detained by the police during the Solidarity Day events on 16 June. Both activists were later released without charges.

16.06.2010 Journalists detained in Minsk

Journalists Nasta Krauchuk and Volha Zharnasek were detained by the police outside the Belarusian State University main building, as they were covering an event arranged by the ‘Havary Praudu’ civil campaign, the press-service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists reports.

15.06.2010 Detention of activists of United Civil Party and 'Speak Truth' campaign

A camera crew of the Polish TV channel BelSat was detained on 15 June while making video shots in the yard of Belarusian State University. A camera was damaged during the detention.

14.06.2010 Human rights defenders cannot find detained Barysau activists

The civil activists Ales Abramovich and Alesia Yasiuk were detained in the Barysau suburb Liadzishcha during a rally gainst the construction of a nuclear power-plant in Belarus.

11.06.2010 Mikola Dzemidzenka is charged with posting leaflets in Vitsebsk

On 10 June, a leader of the Young Front, Mikola Dzemidzenka, was detained by policemen with assault rifles in Vitsebsk, where he come to meet with activists of the Young Front and the Party of Belarusian Christian Democracy. The activist was detained on a trolleybus, before the eyes of passengers.