News on the topic: detention
06.04.2015 Kastus Zhukouski's car twice examined on the border
The customs officers detained the car of the civil society activist Kanstantsin Zhukouski for several hours.
18.03.2015 Independent journalist detained in Minsk
Radio Svaboda's journalist Halina Abakunchyk was detained near the shopping mall that Lukashenka visits today.
11.03.2015 Detention for taking photos is a law violation
Lawyer Pavel Sapelka commented on the incident with the detention of a journalist of “Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi”, Dzmitry Lasko, for photographing the facade of the Academy of Sciences.
05.03.2015 Brest: KGB is looking for authors of leaflets of missing Belarusian politicians
The police have detained and questioned social activist Siarhei Sukhaverkhau about the leaflets that had been posted in Pinsk to remind the citizens about the fate of the well-known opposition activists who had been kidnapped.
04.03.2015 Police insist that photographer Uladzimir Hrydzin return to police station
Photojournalist Uladzimir Hrydzin was arrested today in Zavodzki district court in Minsk. As Euroradio reported earlier, there is now held a trial of Dzianis Zamiatalin, son of the famous Belarusian official and ideologue Uladzimir Zamiatalin. Information about the arrest was contradictory. Euroradio phoned Ulad to learn more about the incident.
04.03.2015 Photojournalist Uladzimir Hrydzin detained in Minsk
The journalist was detained at the trial against Dzianis Zamiatalin.
02.03.2015 Entrepreneurs’ protest leader detained in Minsk
At about 11.30 this morning, businessman Ales Makayeu received a phone call from an unknown person who tried to find out where he lived, according to his wife Yuliya Stsiapanava.
02.03.2015 About 100 football fans detained in Minsk
Fans were going to play a friendly match, but got detained by police.
27.02.2015 Journalist held at police station 4 hours for photographing Academy of Science
A journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi, Dzmitry Lasko, was held at a police station for four hours.
20.02.2015 Police detain 4 opposition activists in Minsk
According to a message posted on the Facebook account of Aleh Korban, leader of the Alternatyva opposition initiative, four members of this group were detained by police in the center of Minsk today. The incident occurred at about 12 p.m. near Yakub Kolas Square, as the activists were pasting posters to mark the International Mother Tongue Day.
03.02.2015 Horki: police seize pensioners after anonymous report on their involvement in early election campaigning
Maryia Kiryienka and Tatsiana Siarheyeva have been taken to the Horki District Police Department. As reported by the women, they are charged with electoral campaigning.
02.02.2015 Former political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich detained by police
As it became known to the Human Rights Centre “Viasna”, at 4 p.m. on February 2 Aliaksandr Frantskevich was detained by police.
01.02.2015 Health care department finds no violations in detention of protester in Svetlahorsk
The Health Care Department of the Homel Regional Executive Committee has found no violations in the forced hospitalization of Yury Liashenka, a disabled activist in Svetlahorsk, who staged a picket in the city’s central square on 25 November.
31.01.2015 Most administrative detainees report rights violations at stage of detention
Human rights defenders arrived at a conclusion that the majority of human rights violations against persons subjected to administrative arrest are committed during the initial stage of their detention. The findings are based on interviewing persons sentenced to short prison terms for political reasons during 2014 in different cities of Belarus.
30.01.2015 Former candidate keeps appealing detention
Valery Karankevich, a former candidate for the Mahiliou Regional Council of Deputies in the Khotsimsk-based constituency No. 54 and a candidate for the district council of Khotsimsk in constituency No. 13, sent on January 29 a request for a personal appointment to the First Deputy Prosecutor General Belarus.
