News on the topic: detention
13.09.2010 Activists of ‘Speak Truth’ complain to FIFA, UEFA and CHL
As stated to the BelaPAN by Yury Aleinik, activists of the civil campaign Speak Truth filed complaints to FIFA, UEFA and CHL against violation of their rights as fans by the police.
13.09.2010 Only about 20 people managed to get to ’Battle of Orsha’ feast
The traditional festival dedicated to the important historical date - the victory of Orsha in 1514 troops of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, was scheduled for 12 September this year. 8 September, the day of the battle, is celebrated as the Day of the Belarusian military glory by the opposition.
13.09.2010 Andrei Sannikau detained in airport
The leader of the civil campaign European Belarus Andrei Sannikau was detained on the way from a high-level international conference in Riga. His passport was seized.
10.09.2010 Hrodna: detention of Dzmitry Bandarchuk
The activist of the civil campaign Speak Truth Dzmitry Bandarchuk was arrested yesterday in Hrodna and is still kept at the police station of the Dzeviatouka suburb. The detention followed the attempt of the police to examine his car. The activist didn’t allow them to do it without showing him the warrant.
10.09.2010 Activists of 'Speak Truth' deatined at hockey match
As told to the European Radio for Belarus by the press-secretary of the civil campaign Speak Truth, Yuliya Rymasheuskaya, 12 activists of the campaign were detained at the yesterday’s hockey match between the Minsk Dynama and the Russian Torpedo (from Nizhniy Novgorod). The detainees were guarded to the Tsentralny District Police Department. This time, the police acted more violently than during the detention of participants of the football match between Romania and Belarus. The people were forced to take off the T-shirts with the Speak Truth logo. Police officers tore off the T-shirts from those who didn’t obey this order.
09.09.2010 New circumstances of Cameroonian Football Player Guy Toukam’s case
Several weeks ago 28-year-old Guy François Toukam who had been detained in Belarus for 44 days on accusation in forgery of the passport received an answer from Belarusian officials, from which it follows that he had allegedly refused from services of a counsel, that he had been provided with a interpreter from the very beginning and he hag even confessed that his passport had been forged!
09.09.2010 Detentions for pillow fight
The attempt to hold a pillow fight that hadn’t been permitted by the Minsk authorities ended with mass detentions. The action was dated to the 496th anniversary of the Battle of Orsha, which is celebrated by the Belarusian Military Glory Day by the opposition circles.
08.09.2010 Detention of five ‘Young Front’ activists near Russian Embassy
The Young Front members Ihar Aliakseyeu, Eduard Lobau, Ales Stasiuk, Vadzim Petryk and Dzmitry Yasevich were detained near the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Minsk in order to pass an address on the occasion of the Day of the Belarusian Military Glory (that is not recognized by the Belarusian authorities).
08.09.2010 About 50 oppositionists arrested before match Romania-Belarus
About 50 activists of the Speak Truth campaign were arrested by the police in Minsk at the Minsk stadium Dinamo. Those who came to the stadium were told to unfasten their coats. Those who were wearing T-shirts with the inscription Speak Truth (about 50 people) were detained. The civil activists Yury Aleinik, Dzianis Kobruseu, Aleh Miatselitsa and about 40 other detainees were taken first to the police room of the stadium and then guarded to police station #1.
07.09.2010 Statement of secretariat of Union of Belarusian Writers concerning detention of Mikhail Bashura
More than a month ago, on 6 August 2010, the member of the Union of Belarusian Writers, poet and editor Mikhail Bashura was forcedly detained. The investigation charged him with an ‘economical crime’ – the forgery of financial documents so that his wife could receive a bank loan. Ignoring the presumption of innocence and the possibility of a mistake, they charge Mikhail Bashura with the forgery of the certificate from the place of his work.
07.09.2010 Baranavichy: detention of Anatol Liabedzka and Yaraslau Ramanchuk
On 7 September, the leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka and the presidential candidate of UCP Yaraslau Ramanchuk were detained at the central market of Baranavichy.
06.09.2010 Hrodna: detention for leaflets with Yaraslau Ramanchuk’s address to entrepreneurs
On 4 September, policemen in mufti were waiting for distributors of opposition leaflets in the mini-markets of Hrodna.
06.09.2010 Detentions of activists of Belarusian Christian Democracy
The Minsk police keep detaining the activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy who are collecting signatures for returning St. Joseph’s church to believers.
06.09.2010 Homel: detention for ‘Popular Program’
An activist of the For Freedom movement, Aliaksandr Protska, was detained near the Davydauski market in Homel for handing out booklets with the Popular Program of the presidential candidate Aliaksandr Milinkevich.
01.09.2010 Activists of ’Young Belarus’ detained in Brest
The activists of the Young Belarus Yury Batsuk and Yury Miashkou were detained in Brest on 31 August for handing out Aliaksandr Milinkevich’s book lets in Lenin Square.
