24.07.2012 Euroradio reporter Vital Ruhain detained on Lithuanian border

Vital Ruhain, journalist of the Euroradio independent channel, was detained when crossing the Lithuanian border this morning, the Nasha Niva newspaper reports.

20.07.2012 Slutsk activist to stand administrative trial

Slutsk civil activist Vital Amialkovich is going to be tried on charges of violating Par. 1 Art.21.14 of the Administrative Code for allegedly posting stickers on a wall in central Slutsk.

19.07.2012 Youth activist detained in Minsk

Youth activist Mrs. Varvara Krasutskaya was detained yesterday evening in Minsk Kastrychnitskaya Square, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, quoting Young Front member Ivan Shyla.

18.07.2012 Arrests of opponents of nuclear power plant in Minsk

Activists of an anti-nuclear campaign, who were going to convey an adress to Medvedev, are being arrested in Minsk.

17.07.2012 Police arrest opposition activist Ivan Amelchanka

Young opposition activist Ivan Amelchanka, whose stunt during an opposition march earlier this year was watched by hundreds of thousands on the Internet, was arrested again in Minsk on July 17.

17.07.2012 “Mopping-up” operation ahead of Medvedev's visit to Minsk

Opposition activists are being detained at their homes, in courts and in streets.

Ivan Amelchanka, the author of hype causing performance “Musorok”, was detained in Minsk on July 17.

The reason for the detention is unknown.

16.07.2012 Slutsk police detain civil activist

Vital Amialkovich, civil activist from the town of Slutsk, Minsk region, was detained by local police at about 12 p.m. 14 July.

16.07.2012 Opposition activist Molchan to stand trial on Monday

Andrey Molchan, an activist of an opposition group called European Belarus, will stand trial in Minsk’s Pershamayski District Court on Monday on a charge of “petty hooliganism,” his associate Maksim Vinyarski told BelaPAN.

16.07.2012 Photographer Anton Surapin detained for three days

They will check whether he is connected with the teddy bears incident.

13.07.2012 Oppositionist detained for children's coloring books

Yanina Liasneuskaya, an activist of Our Home civil campaign, was detained in Vitebsk as 11 a.m. on 13 July by Orsha police, Our Home campaign website reports.

12.07.2012 Salihorsk: former colonel continues struggle against arbitrary detentions

Retired colonel of the Salihorsk police Viktar Malochka continues appealing against his arbitrary detentions during the last year's silent protest actions in Salihorsk.

12.07.2012 Dziarzhynsk: persecution of traffickers of bulletin “For Free Elections”

On 11 July Hrodna activists of the Belarusian Leftist Party “Fair World” Viktar Mikhalchyk and Pavel Staneuski were carrying copies of the bulletin “For Free Elections” in their car. On the territory of the Dziarzhynsk district their car was overtaken by a road police patrol.

11.07.2012 Vitsebsk: detention of Barys Khamaida ahead of Lukashenka's visit

Independent newspapers distributor Barys Khamaida has been detained in Vitebsk.

06.07.2012 Three violation reports drawn up on Uruccha protester

Leanid Mazhalski, an protector of the public garden in the suburb of Uruccha, was detained in the morning of 5 July, during the dispersal of a protest of local dwellers against the construction of a multi-stored house for riot policemen on the garden’s place.

05.07.2012 Uruccha protesters dispersed by police

Leanid Mazhalski, one of the leader of a group of people protesting against infill construction in Uruchcha city district was detained in Russiyanau Park in Minsk At 11 a.m. on 5 July. He and his wife are in the city police department in Uruchskaya Street. An ambulance was called for the detainee, udf.by reports.