News on the topic: detention
10.06.2010 Homel: detention of 'Young Front' activists
The campaign of the Young Front City is Ours! in Homel is accompanied by arrests. Police seized ribbons in colors of the national flag and leaflets from two members of the Young Front, but the activists still managed to spread national symbols in Homel and placed a white-red-white flag on one of the bridges of the city.
03.06.2010 Homel: civil activists detained for collecting signatures for abolishment of Decree #60
Three activists of the Young Front movement, Kiryl Kavaliou, Zmitser Skachkou and Ivan Zaitsau, were detained on 2 June in Homel, while collecting signatures for the abolishment of Decree #60 On measures to improve the use of the national segment of the internet.
02.06.2010 Vitsebsk: another detention of Barys Khamaida
Oppositionist Barys Khamaida was detained in the center of Vitsebsk for spreading independent press.
01.06.2010 Detention of defenders of children’s facilitations
On 1 June, the International Children’s Day, representatives of the initiative group for returning the children’s facilitations were detained by police in the Gorky Park in the center of Minsk.
19.05.2010 More searches at Havary Praudu offices
The police continue searching the offices and private apartments of the ‘Havary Praudu’ activists.
19.05.2010 Niakliayeu in prison
Uladzimir Niakliayeu, leader of the ‘Havary Praudu’ civil campaign, has officially been declared suspect in the case initiated under Par. 1 Art. 250 of the Criminal Code – ‘willful spreading of knowingly false information or application of advertising misleading the consumer about the quality, quantity, composition, method of fabrication or other characteristics of the products (commodities, work, services).’
18.05.2010 Minsk police break educational seminar
On 17 May Minsk police detained the participants of an educational meeting of the ‘Bespartshkola’ open school, entitled ‘The Civil War in Spain and the Communes of Aragon’, www.belaruspartisan.org reports.
18.05.2010 Minor detained and released without charges
On 14 May the under-aged Viktoryja Ladzis was detained by the police on her way to Minsk art school in Makayonak Street. The police seized the girl’s mobile phone and took her to Minsk Pershamaiski police department.
14.05.2010 Mikola Dzemidzenka detined for walking on Kastrychnitskaya Square
On 13 May evening the riot police detained Mikola Dzemidzenka, Deputy Chairperson of the Young Front, in Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk.
12.05.2010 Orsha: police regard air balloons as printed editions
On 30 April the Orsha police confiscated from Ruslan Kanavalau, an activist of the Speak Truth campaign, 1,700 air balloons. On 12 May, Ruslan Kanavalau was summoned to the Orsha Town Procuracy for drawing up a violation report on this incident.
07.05.2010 Kazulin to be tried for using obscene language near Supreme Court
Well-known politician Aliaksandr Kazulin, detained yesterday near the Supreme Court, will stand trial for alleged usage of obscene language there. The trial is scheduled for 11 a.m. on 12 May at the Leninski District Court of Minsk.
07.05.2010 Vitsebsk activist Siarhei Kavalenka detained
The official reason for the detention is violation of the traffic rules. On 6 May Kavalenka was detained for having crossed the road in a wrong place. However, when he offered to pay a fine, he was guarded to the police station. There the police drew a report for alleged use of obscene language towards the policemen who detained him.
06.05.2010 Detentions after announcement of verdict on criminal case against Autukhovich
Five people were detained near the building of the Supreme Court after the announcement of the verdict on the criminal case against Mikalai Autukhovich and other ‘terrorists’.
03.05.2010 Police apologized and paid 100,000 rubles as compensation
The transport police of Babruisk offered official apologies to Taisiya Kabanchuk, activist of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party, for the violent actions of policemen on 25 March. The woman also received from them 100,000 Belarusian rubles as a compensation for an unused railway ticket and broken glasses.
03.05.2010 Activists of ‘Speak Truth’ campaign interrogated about 4 July explosion
10 activists of the Speak Truth civil campaign were detained on 3 May in the Peramohi Square in Minsk for coming there with air balloons with the campaign logo.
