12.07.2011 Fine to Radio Liberty's correspondent

The Leninski District Court of Hrodna fined Mikalai Karnevich, the Hrodna correspondent for Radio Liberty, 1,050,000 rubles for “participation in the unauthorized action” held there on 3 July. The court ignored the document confirming that the journalist worked there.

12.07.2011 Tatsiana Seviarynets got fined

Tatsiana Seviarynets, the mother of the political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets and a member of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, was detained in Vitsebsk in the evening of 8 July and taken to the police where she was interrogated. She spent the weekend at the police station.

12.07.2011 Navapolatsk: newspaper distributor fined for “obscene language”

Mikalai Chartkou, a distributor of the Tut i Zaraz bulletin, was fined 70,000 rubles under Article 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, “disorderly conduct”.

11.07.2011 Baranavichy: civil activist Uladzimir Hundar appeals unlawful actions of police

On 8 July 2011 civil activist Uladzimir Hundar lodged an appeal against unlawful actions of officials of the Baranavichy City Police Department and the head of the Baranavichy police.

08.07.2011 Vitsebsk: Barys Khamaida detained

Mr. Khamaida was detained near the so-called “blue house” – he usually distributes the independent press there. Radio Liberty informs that he has been brought to Railway District Department of the Interior according to a police order.

07.07.2011 6 July protest action: list of detained journalists

The following journalists were detained during the protests actions that were held in different towns and cities of Belarus on 6 July:

07.07.2011 About 1,730 people detained at silent revolutions

Silent protest actions are still held all over Belarus each Wednesday. About 1,730 people were detained during the actions which took place on 15, 22, 29 June and 3, 6 July. 980 of them were detained in Minsk.

06.07.2011 Homel: UCP member Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh detained and fined

A former policeman, member of the United Civil Party Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh was detained on Peramoha street on 5 July.

05.07.2011 Andrei Kasheuski was kept at Leninski District Police Department for 3 days

On July 4 the Leninski District court of Minsk sentenced Andrei Kasheuski, amember of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, to 10 days of arrest.. He was detained on 1 July for distributing leaflets and was kept at the Leninski District Police Department for 3 days. His mother was informed about it only on the fourth day of the detention.

05.07.2011 Minsk: journalist detained at court

On 4 July the cameraman of the satellite TV channel BelSat Siarhei Kavaliou was detained in the corridor of the Frunzenski District Court of Minsk. He was preparing a report about the trials of the detained participants of the 3 July silent protest action when he was approached by three people in civvies who took him away in unknown direction.

04.07.2011 Forced dispersals of peaceful assemblies by the police are a gross violation of human rights

Statement by the Human Rights Center Viasna

At the time of the peaceful assemblies in Minsk and other Belarusian cities on 22, 29 June 29 and 3 July officers of the Ministry of Interior used physical violence and police gear against peaceful protesters. Mass detentions were conducted: occasional passers-by were detained together with protesters. As a result, hundreds of citizens were drawn to administrative responsibility (including arrest) on false charges of disorderly conduct, the use foul language in public places. The Human Rights Centre Viasna registered numerous cases of illegal use of physical force against detainees, facts of the lawless interference with professional activities of journalists on the part of law-enforcement officers and cases of detention of human rights defenders who monitored the aforementioned events.

04.07.2011 Belarus: chronicle of silent revolution (updated)

According to human rights defenders, about 310 people were detained in different parts of Belarus on 3 July, 160 of them – in Minsk alone. 5 people were detained in Baranavichy, about 30 – in Homel, about 80 – in Hrodna, 15 – in Mahiliou, 6 – in Smaliavichy, 7 – in Vitsebsk, 2 – in Zhlobin.

04.07.2011 Stanislau Shushkevich and 15 EHU students detained on Belarusian border

On 2 July evening the politician Stanislau Shushkevich and 15 students of the European Humanities University set down the train Vilnius-Minsk on the Belarusian border. The detainees were kept on the border for six hours.

04.07.2011 Hrodna: detention of journalist Ihar Bantsar

Ihar Bantsar, a journalist and activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus, was detained on 3 July morning near his house. He managed to phone somebody and tell that most probably he would be tried for the unauthorized picket he had held on 28 June, during the trial of another journalist and UPB activist, Andrei Pachobut.

04.07.2011 Preventive detentions in Homel

On 1 July in Homel Andrei Tsianiuta, head of the Homel branch of the Young Front, was detained in the yard of his house and put in jail. Two more activists, Pavel Pryvalau and Ruslan Ustsimenka, were detained as well. Pryvalau is charged with disorderly conduct.