News on the topic: detention
03.12.2012 Ivan Kruk files another appeal against the police actions
On 21 September the environmental activists Ivan Kruk and Mikalai Ulasevich were detained by the police. The detainees' apartments were searched, Kruk and Ulasevich were questioned concerning the alleged distribution of illegal electoral agitation matter.
30.11.2012 Antifascist detained short before the “Slavonic March” in Mahiliou
A civil activist was detained in the center of Mahiliou why posting DIY antifa leaflets (in the photo) opposing neo-Nazism and Russian imperialism.
22.11.2012 European Belarus activists detained in Minsk
Two activists of the European Belarus opposition movement were detained this afternoon while handing out the printed version of the Charter97 web-site.
21.11.2012 Andrei Stryzhak detained on border
A trade union activist had his belongings searched. His laptop was seized.
16.11.2012 Who was arrested over explosion near Vitsebsk KGB?
The Investigative Committee said on November 15 that all the detainees were released and there were no more suspects in the case initiated after an explosion outside the KGB Vitsebsk office. But the question is till open, says local human rights defender Pavel Levinau.
12.11.2012 Raman Kisliak applies against inclusion in lawbreakers' database
The unlawful inclusion of the human rights defender in this database by the police became the reason for his detention and subsequent fingerprinting on 8 November.
09.11.2012 Former political prisoner Siarhei Kazakou gets detained
Siarhei Kazakou, a former political prisoner and activist of the “European Belarus” civil campaign, was detained in the evening of 8 November at the central railway station in Minsk.
09.11.2012 “Young Front” activist Raman Vasiliieu arrested for 15 days too
As it was found during today's trial, the activist was charged for the same thing as his comrade Uladzimir Yaromenak – he also wanted to spill Valerian tincture on the monument to Lenin. Vasillieu charted with “disorderly conducted” (Article 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and was sentenced to the same 15 days of imprisonment.
09.11.2012 Human rights defender Raman Kisliak detained for fingerprinting
Raman Kisliak, a human rights activist from Brest, was detained by the traffic police today as a “person hiding from administrative prosecution”.
06.11.2012 Vasil Paliakou appeals groundless detention
On 5 November the head of the Homel regional branch of the Unitec Civil Party and the party's deputy head Vasil Paliakou applied to the Savetski District Prosecutor's Office of Homel in connection with a groundless detention by police.
29.10.2012 Young Front activists detained in Miory
Two activists of the Young Front opposition movement were detained on 27 October in the town of Miory, Vitsebsk region, following the wedding ceremony of Young Front member Mikola Dzemidzenka.
29.10.2012 1863 Uprising Remembrance Day marred by detentions in Svislach
The traditional action to commemorate the heroes of the 1863 anti-Russian uprising in the town of Svislach, Hrodna region, was marred by the detention of a number of opposition activists.
15.10.2012 Opposition activist Uladzimir Siakerka searched on the border
Uladzimir Siakerka, a member of the “Fair World” party, was taken off Chernihiv-Homel train at Tsiarukha station on the border on 14 October.
09.10.2012 Detentions on Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk
The cameraman of “Nasha Niva” Tatsiana Haurylchyk was detained why videoing an art performance on the Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk.
09.10.2012 Mahiliou: volunteers detained for stickers against death penalty
Several volunteers were detained for distributing stickers on 8 October, on the eve of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, 10 October.
