News on the topic: detention
19.05.2014 Journalist stands trial in Brest
Yauhen Skrabets was detained on May 17 near the house where he lives. He told about this in a text message, saying that he was held in the Leninski district police department of Brest.
19.05.2014 Dzianis Karnou: There are opposition activists, tramps and prostitutes in Akrestsin Street detention center
In the evening of May 16, Dzianis Karnou, an activist of the Young Front’s Salihorsk branch, was released from the Center of Isolation of Offenders located in Akrestsin Street in Minsk, after serving 20 days of arrest. After his release, he described the circumstances of his detention, the trial and conditions in prison.
19.05.2014 EU condemns arbitrary detentions of more than 30 civil society and political activists in Belarus
We are concerned about the harassment, arbitrary arrest and detention of several dozens of representatives of civil society and opposition organisations in the run up to the World Ice Hockey Championship in Belarus. We condemn the use of administrative detention by the Belarusian authorities as an instrument aimed at creating pressure, fear and uncertainty among the young generation of people in Belarus.
14.05.2014 Aleh Kirol detained in Minsk, trial pending
Aleh Kirol detained in Minsk, trial pending
07.05.2014 When will the activists be released? (list of detained persons)
In general, the activists are being detained on purely fabricated, similar grounds such as “disorderly conduct" and “disobedience to the law-enforcement officials”. The courts conduct administrative trial proceedings formalistically, implicitly trust the law-enforcement officials and don’t take account of the evidence provided by the defense.
06.05.2014 A black Patrick is waiting for deportation at Akrescina Isolation Centre knowing nothing about his destiny
A black man, probably a resident of an African country, has been held at Akrescina Centre for Isolation of Offenders for a long period of time. He speaks neither Russian nor English which makes it impossible for him to communicate with the administration of the Centre.
06.05.2014 National bolsheviks are being persecuted for the banner “You cannot put everyone into jail!”
Today, apartments of several activists of organizing committee for the establishment of the National Bolshevik Party have been under a police siege. Reportedly, national bolshevik Aliaksandr Paliakou has been already detained.
05.05.2014 Human rights defenders informed the United Nations about arbitrary detentions ahead of Ice Hockey World Championship - 2014
Human Rights Center “Viasna” informed UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the preventive detentions of Belarusian citizens ahead of Ice Hockey World Championship - 2014.
26.04.2014 Former political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich detained in Minsk
Former political prisoner Aliaksandr Frantskevich has been detained in Minsk, according to by his mother Tatsiana Frantskevich, who wrote on her Facebook account: “Just can’t figure out why. At eight o’clock after work. Now he’s also in Akrestsin Street”.
16.04.2014 Activists threatened with arrests ahead of Hockey World Champ
Human rights defenders have received information about possible provocations against opposition activists and their preventive detention ahead of the forthcoming Ice Hockey World Championship, due to open on 9 May. This was confirmed by the coordinator of the European Belarus movement Maksim Viniarski, who was recently released after a 15-day arrest.
15.04.2014 Brest: activist of “Tell the Truth” blocked in apartment while collecting signatures
The incident happened with an activist of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth" Sviatlana Nikadzimuk who collected signatures of residents of Brest for “People's Referendum” and visited a multi-storey building for it.
10.04.2014 Brest resident to be punished for picket against quick execution of death sentences
The action, which was attended by Dzmitry Rabtsevich, took place on 28 March, when he went into the city center with a banner on which was written "No toFast Executions" and "Life or Death".
04.04.2014 Slavamir Adamovich detained for Ukrainian state symbols again
The poet was detained for a yellow-blue ribbon in central Minsk.
28.03.2014 Belarusian anarchist detained in Russia, charged with terrorism
A resident of Homel, Dzmitry Rezanovich, was detained when crossing the border from Ukraine to Russia in the night of 13 March. Dzmitry Rezanovich is an activist in the anarchist movement in Belarus. He was an active participant in the Kyiv Maidan protests.
27.03.2014 Vitsebsk activists convicted in secret trial
Vitsebsk opposition activists Barys Khamaida and Yan Salauyan are expected to be released today after they were detained ahead of Freedom Day in the evening on March 24.
