News on the topic: detention
28.04.2010 Young Belarus activists detained
Young Belarus activists Andrei Kuzminski, Mikhail Naskou and Aliaksei Atroshchanka were detained for staging a protest picket for the extradition of the ousted Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev in Minsk’s central Kastrychnitskaya square, the independent Nasha Niva newspaper reports.
26.04.2010 Activists of Russia’s Oborona detained in Minsk
Three activists of the Russian ‘Oborona’ movement were detained by the police outside the Belarusian Popular Front’s central office in downtown Minsk. The activists were forced into a police bus. Their current whereabouts are not known.
26.04.2010 Free Youth activists detained
Two activists of the Free Youth movement Vika Ladzis and Aliaksandr Baradzinchyk were detained by the police in Minsk, ahead of the Chernobyl Shliakh demonstration due later this evening, the Nasha Niva newspaper reports.
24.04.2010 Mazyr: detention of candidate Frantsishak Viachorka
Frantsishak Viachorka, a candidate for deputy for the Mazyr District Council of Deputies running at the Stantsyinaya electioin constituency #25, was detained on 24 April near the Culture House 40 Hod Kastrychnika and guarded to the Mazyr District Police Department.
23.04.2010 UCP activist detained in Vaukavysk
The United Civil Party member Vital Huliak was detained by Vaukavysk police for distributing postcards of the ‘Tell the Truth’ public campaign and taken to the police station, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
23.04.2010 Akrestsin detention center to be equipped with blankets and pillows
The detention conditions in Belarus have repeatedly been criticized by both national and foreign human rights organizations. It is the civil convicts who are subject to extreme conditions while serving their sentences: overcrowded cells, lack of beds, showers, walks, inability to receive parcels, low quality of food and water.
08.04.2010 Vitsebsk: another detention of candidate for deputy
In the night of 7-8 April, the road police detained the car with Volha Karach, deputy of the Vitsebsk city council of the 24th convocation, and her husband Aleh Barshcheuski, on suspicion of carjacking.
08.04.2010 Police confiscated circulation of another edition of ‘Vitebskiy Kuryer’
The car of Vikar Ramniou, the founder of Vitebskiy Kuryer, was stopped by policemen in the Mahiliou region, on the way from a Smolensk printing house.
06.04.2010 Andrei Kasheuski detained again
Activist Andrei Kasheuski from Zhodzina was detained on 5April at about 7 p.m. on the Asipovichy–Minsk train.
05.04.2010 BPF Youth leader fined for action of solidarity with political prisoners
Andrei Krechka, leader of the BPF Youth, was fined 700,000 rubles by Nadzeya Navitskaya, Judge of the Leninski district court of Minsk, for an action on Kastrychnitskaya Square on the Solidarity Day, 16 March.
02.04.2010 Viktar Ramniou and Volha Karach detained in Vitsebsk
V. Ramniou was detained for 'distribution of the Vitebskiy Kuryer newspaper' and V.Karach – for disobedience to the police. As said by human rights defender Pavel Levinau, Mr. Ramniou was guarded to the Pershamaiski district police department and confiscated 53 copies of the newspaper.
01.04.2010 Detentions of activists of Union of Poles in Belarus
Mechyslau Yaskevich, Deputy Chairperson of the Union of Poles in Belarus, and Veranika Sebastyianovich, Chairperson of the Association of Officers of the Polish Army at the UPB, were detained by police not far from Shchychyn.
23.03.2010 Viasna’s activists detained
Four members of the Human Rights Center Viasna Ales Bialiatski, Valiantsin Stefanovich, Iryna Toustsik and Siarhei Sys were detained by the police while staging a picket against the execution of Andrei Zhuk and Vasil Yuzepchuk in front of the Presidential Administration building in Minsk.
16.03.2010 Border guards seize car of Maryna Koktysh, ‘Narodnaya Volia’ journalist
The car Maryna Koktysh bought in Lithuania was seized and sent for expert evaluation. The journalist detained at Kamenny Loh border crossing point at 2:30 p.m. on 12 March. The woman was driving the car from Lithuania. The Belarusian border guards told the journalist the car was on the international wanted list. The journalist told RFE/RL that Lithuania denies this information. Koktysh went on hunger strike protesting against actions of customs officers.
11.03.2010 Fines for picket near Lithuanian Embassy
On 10 March Maksim Viniarski, Palina Kuryianovich and Palina Dziiakava were detained by police for an unauthorized picket near the Lithuanian Embassy where they unfurled a streamer ‘No to cooperation with Belarusian dictatorship’ in order to protest against the invitation of Aliaksandr Lukashenka to festivities on occasion of the 20th anniversary of Reestablishment of independence of Lithuania.
