Navapolatsk: detention for banner “Freedom to Bialiatski!”
In the evening of 5 August an activist of the civil
association “Free Region” Aliaksandr Drazdou was detained during an attempt to
hang out a banner “Freedom to Bialiatski!”.
The activist didn't even manage to come up to the bridge where he intended to
hang the banner. Drazdou was guarded to the police station and searched. After
this he was issued with a warning about the inadmissibility of holding
unauthorized actions. It is not known how the police found about his plans.
Several days ago, on 2 August, the banner “Freedom to Statkevich!” hanged in
Polatsk for about an hour. The banner was hanged by activists of the “Free
Region”. The police arrived in 10 minutes, but didn't remove the banner.
Instead, their car stood near it for about 20 minutes, after which there came
some people in mufti, who made photos of the banner and then took it away with
themselves.
