News on the topic: detention
29.08.2011 Civil activist Ihar Sluchak detained in Homel
Special police troops accused him of swearing in a public place.
26.08.2011 Hlybokaye journalist detained
Hlybokaye journalist Kastus Shytal was detained by local police after a publication on www.westki.info on an incident on 25 August, when the local district executive committee building was smeared with paint, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
26.08.2011 Minsk resident detained for laying flowers outside Libyan embassy
On 24 August, Minsk police detained Stanislau Ramanovich, as he attempted to lay flowers outside the Libyan embassy to Belarus.
23.08.2011 Journalists detained in picket of support to ales Bialiatski in Mahiliou
2 journalists (Alina Skrybunova and Yauhen Hlushakou), as well as civil activist Pavel Varashylau have been detained as a result of a picket of support to chair of Human Rights Center “Viasna” in Mahiliou.
23.08.2011 6 activists detained in picket of support to Ales Bialiatski in Minsk
6 activists have been detained following a picket of support to Viasna’s leader Ales Bialiatski staged in downtown Minsk this afternoon.
23.08.2011 Hrodna human rights defender Sazonau detained
Hrodna human rights defender Viktar Sazonau has been detained in a protest staged by local activists in support of Viasna’s leader Ales Bialiatski this afternoon.
23.08.2011 Bialiatski’s son to stand trial today
Adam Bialiatski, son of imprisoned Viasna’s leader Ales Bialiatski, is to stand trial today for alleged disorderly conduct.
18.08.2011 Vaukavysk activist detained
Activist Vital Huliak has been detained by Vaukavysk police this afternoon, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
18.08.2011 Detentions in Homel
Some 20 persons gathered in Homel’s Uprising Square on 17 August to stage another “silent protest”, the BelaPAN news agency reports, quoting Young Front activist Andrei Tsianiuta.
17.08.2011 Homel inhabitant arrested for speaking Belarusian at bank
Vasil Takarenka visited “Belprambudbank” to buy foreign currency needed for his 12-year-old son’s vacations.
10.08.2011 Homel: detention of member of United Civil Party Natallia Shchukina
Natallia Shchukina, a member of the UCP and the initiative group for the National Assembly was detained on 9 August in Zhukau Street in Homel.
03.08.2011 General Procuracy finished check-up on appeal of European Radio journalists
Nasta Mantsevich, Pavel Sviardlou and Andrei Yeliseyeu, journalists for the European Radio for Belarus which has an official accreditation in Belarus, suffered from unlawful actions of people in mufti during the silent protest actions that were held in Minsk in June-July. Pavel Sviardlou was detained twice.
03.08.2011 Horki: action in support of political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich ended with detentions
About 30 people arrived to the colony in Horki on 2 August. They demanded that political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich was allowed to meet with his lawyer. The colony's administration refuses to let the lawyer in until receiving a corresponding request from Dashkevich himself.
01.08.2011 Homel: journalist appeals policeman's actions
On 3 July Alena Hermanovich, a journalist for the BelaPAN information agency, was detained by the police at the Pryvakzalnaya Square in Homel. The woman was taken to the police station. During the detention police major Aliaksandr Koshman gave the following order to his subordinates: “Seize her, she is a journalist!”, which means that he deliberately created obstacles to her professional activities.
29.07.2011 Plain-clothes policeman beats Baranavichy activist
On 27 July, Baranavichy civil activist Aliaksandr Vaitseshyk lodged a complaint with the town’s police chief against an incident that reportedly took place in the activist’s flat on the same day.
