News on the topic: detention
08.05.2012 Bartosik and Simbirou detained. Simbirou sentenced to 15 days of arrest
At 1 p.m. near Chaliuskintsau Park people in mufti forcedly pulled musicians Zmitser Bartosik and Ihar Simbirou into a black Mercedes car.
07.05.2012 Ihar Simbirou tried for disorderly conduct
The musician, detained at a picnic near Minsk in the evening of 6 May (together with signer Zmitser Bartosik and 12 listeners), spent the night at the delinquents’ isolation center in Akrestsin Street. All other people were released after finger-printing and videoing.
07.05.2012 Musicians and audience detained at picnic near Minsk
In the evening of 6 May, musicians Zmitser Bartosik and Ihar Simbirou who were playing a private concert near Minsk, as well as other 15 people were detained at Zialionaya station.
04.05.2012 Polatsk: court deprives silent protester of driver’s license
On 4 May the Court of Polatsk and the Polatsk district turned down the appeal of Yury Rudkouski against the ruling of the road police, according to which he was deprived of the right to drive for two years.
04.05.2012 Brest: police disperse international anarchist congress
Police detained 11 participants of an international anarchist forum. Anarchists organized an international congress in Brest. Over 150 people from Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Belarus gathered at “Krasny Dvor” recreation centre on the outskirts of Brest.
02.05.2012 Police don't hurry to return Vadzim Kabanchuk's car
Minsk police still haven't returned the car to the member of the steering committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Vadzim Kabanchuk. The car had been detained on the eve of the Freedom Day action, on 25 March. Some printed materials and a streamer were confiscated as a result.
02.05.2012 Detention of protester against construction works in Uruccha suburb
Dzianis Kabrusiou, an activist of "European Perspectives" campaign, was taking photos of soldiers of special task forces, who were digging out trees on a place of the future construction site. He was detained at 9 in the morning, European Radio for Belarus reports.
02.05.2012 Detentions of Dzmitry Uss' adherents in Brest and Baranavichy
At 8.30 a.m. on 1 May Baranavichy police detained a group of civil activists at the central railway station. The activists were heading for Minsk in order to take part in a sitting of Dzmitry Uss' initiative group. Among the detainees there were Artsiom Babei, Viachaslau Bolbat, Aliaksandr Davydau and Ryhor Hryk.
30.04.2012 Minsk police raid movie screening by Free Theatre
Some 20 people were reportedly detained in Minsk this evening by riot police during a screening of the “Europe’s Last Dictator” documentary at a flat rented by the Free Theatre.
30.04.2012 Biarozauka police seize independent newspapers
On 27 April, the police of the town of Biarozauka, Lida district, Hrodna region, detained local activists of the Belarusian Popular Front Party and For Freedom movement Siarhei Trafimchyk and Vitold Ashurak, and seized 800 copies of the Novy Chas independent newspaper.
27.04.2012 40 detained in Chernobyl Way march
Some 40 protesters were reportedly detained and taken to police stations during yesterday’s Chernobyl Way opposition march. Most of the detained protesters were eventually released without charges.
26.04.2012 Asipovichy activist detained and convicted in Minsk
Ihar Simbirou, activist from the town of Asipovichy, Mahiliou region, was detained by police at the central railway station in Minsk. The activist was later taken to Kastrychnitski District Court and sentenced to ten days of administrative arrest on hooliganism charges.
26.04.2012 Brest police detained local pro-dem activists
Brest civil activists Marat Nestsiarenka and Aliaksandr Akhmach have been detained by local police, as they were distributing information materials on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and the construction of a nuclear power plant.
26.04.2012 Anatol Lyabedzka detained on his way to Astravets
The leader of the United Civil Party (UCP), Anatol Lyabedzka, and other UCP members were detained on their way to the town of Astravets (the Hrodna region).
25.04.2012 Former political prisoner Pavel Vinahradau detained
Pavel Vinahradau, activist of the Tell the Truth civil campaign and former political prisoner, has been detained during his visit to the Minsk Maskouski District Criminal Executive Inspection, the Nasha Niva independent weekly reports, quoting the activist’s wife Sviatlana.
