Activist Franak Viachorka detained
Youth opposition leader Franak Viachorka was reportedly detained this afternoon in Minsk. Franak Viachorka, together with two other youth activists, were taken to pre-trial prison.
Pavel Viltouski and Zmitser Hvedaruk have been released from the detention centre in Akrestsina Street. Both guys have given a written undertaking not to leave the country. An acquaintance of the guys who preferred to remain unknown has informed Euroradio about it.
On 5 September an officer of the Baranavichy Town Military Enlistment Office presented a summons to the local activist Yaraslau Hryshchenia while he was collecting signatures at an electoral picket in the center of Baranavichy. According to the summons, he must come to the military enlistment office at 9 a.m. on 8 October.
In the magazine “Belaruskaya Dumka” (A Belarusian Thought) Top Advisor of the State Secretariat of the Security Council Ihar Paddubski has published an article “Some aspects of radical formations’ activities”.
“Despite of a low popularity of radical ideas among the young, none of the really active unregistered structures have stopped its activities voluntarily. More than 10 youth radical formations continue their functioning in the country,” writes an expert on political extremis, and theoretical and practical aspects of counterterrorism, how the author was presented by the magazine.
On 30 July Stanislau Ramanovich, Chairperson of the Mahiliou branch of the Young Front, was sent to serve in the special task force unit near Minsk. The young man was recently operated, but the military enlistment office refused a deferment to him.
National flags were seized from the flat of Andrus Krachko by policemen who didn't draw up a report.
On the eve of the Freedom Day celebration 20 white-red-white flags were sezied from the place of the leader of "Moladz BPF" (1 to 2 metre) and 500 flags with symbols of this organisation and "Pahonya" coat of arms.