News on the topic: detention
15.03.2013 "Detention of journalists was justified"
The Investigative Committee refused to bring a criminal case on the fact of the detention of members of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
13.03.2013 "Lifesound" leaders got detained near Lukashenka's residence
In the evening of 12 March the members of the musical band "Lifesound", brothers Uladzimir and Dzmitry Karakin, were detained near Zaslauye reservoir pond.
13.03.2013 BCD member got detained in Hrodna
As reported by the head of Hrodna branch of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, Mikola Bausiuk, Hrodna police detained a BCD member Siarhei Verameyenka who was heading to the party office in 48 Budzionny Street with a packet of leaflets.
28.02.2013 Slutsk football fans charged with illegal demonstrating
As the web-site of the regional newspaper “Infa-Kurier” (www.kurjer.info) reports, its readers witnessed on February 23 a police raid on a group of young men marching with a banner in the town center.
28.02.2013 Journalists shortly detained in Minsk
Journalists Vasil Siamashka, Hanna Afonina and Siarhei Satsiuk were detained by the police this afternoon in Minsk.
25.02.2013 Youth activists detained in Minsk
Several activists of the European Action movement were detained last afternoon in Minsk.
21.02.2013 Sculptor Henik Loika detained for staging picket on International Mother Language Day
Henik Loika, sculptor and campaigner for the protection of the Belarusian language, was detained by the police this morning, after staging a picket outside a high school in Minsk, where his daughter is a student. The action was meant to attract public attention to the discrimination of Belarusian-speaking schoolchildren.
17.02.2013 Brest customs officers detain two Belarusian Wikipedia authors over suspicious books
Brest customs officers detained today two men, Ulad Hurynovich and Ruslan Yasayeu, who were returned from the meeting of the “Day of the Belarusian Wikipedia in Warsaw”, which was held yesterday at the University Collegium Civitas in the Palace of Culture and Science, Nasha Niva reports.
17.02.2013 Vitsebsk activists detained for displaying banner (Photo)
The detention took place at 12.10 yesterday. Aliaksei Kishchuk and Stanislau Laurenau, members of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, were taken to the police station. Soon both guys were unavailable on the phone, and then they sent a text message that they would be tried on Monday, and before that they were placed in the detention center.
04.02.2013 Another police raid on gay club. About 40 detained
About ten policemen in mufti have held another "check-up" in the Minsk club "6A" this month. The passport data of all present people were put down. About 40 of them were detained for identification and guarded to the police department.
01.02.2013 Biaroza and Pruzhany activists commemorate executed participants of the national liberation uprising of Kastus Kalinouski (photo)
Civil activists from Biaroza and Pruzhany proceeded by the road of death of Kastus Kalinouski's insurgents. This is the 3-kilometer road from the village of Sharashava to the village of Kupichy, where Muravyov's hangmen executed insurgents in 1863.
01.02.2013 Kobryn: Ales Mekh detained for talking
The civil activist Aliaksandr Mekh was detained by the police officer Anatol Dzhyha for discussing the state debts of Belarus in a queue for fluorography.
21.01.2013 Riot police disrupt concert in Brest
From 50 to 70 people are reported to have been detained.
21.01.2013 GayBelarus leader shortly detained by border troops
Siarhei Androsenka, leader of the GayBelarus NGO, was shortly detained by the Belarusian border officers while returning from Warsaw on 19 January, Radio Free Europe/Radio Europe reports.
16.01.2013 Uladzimir Lemesh: "The police didn't let me go after the trial"
The Salihorsk activist of the "European Belarus" Uladzimir Lemesh, fined by the Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk, told about the circumstances of his detention.
