The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

On 2 May police visited flats situated near Peramoha Square, where a parade of 9 May rehearsal is to be held. Policemen visited the head office of Radio Racyja in Minsk at about 8.30 p.m., Radio "Racyja" informs.

283 copies of the newspaper Golos Razuma were withdrawn from Ivan Kruk. Mikola Ulasievich’s house in Varniany village, Astravets district, was searched, too, although the owner wasn’t home.

Unknown representatives of law enforcement agencies have searched the residence of Young Front activist Mrs. Kasia Halitskaya, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.

In the morning of 13 April the police searched an apartment which was rented by activists of “Young Front”. When one of them came home, he saw that the windows were opened, their belongings were scattered on the floor, and white-red-white flags and agitation materials disappeared.

Former political prisoner Mikita Likhavid and his mother Alena were searched on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border for 6 hours, RFE/RL reports.

Riot police raided the Minsk office of an opposition group called European Belarus on Wednesday evening, claiming that they had been tipped off about drugs in the apartment.