News on the topic: detention
12.01.2009 ‘European Belarus’ activists get arrested for handing out porridge
On 11 January activists of the civil campaign European Belarus unfurled a poster Crisis came to country! Handout! and brought a 25-liter pot of buckwheat porridge near Kamarouski Market of Minsk.
08.01.2009 Hrodna: detention and search of Uladzimir Khilmanovich and Viktar Sazonau
Human rights activist Viktar Sazonau and journalist Uladzimir Khilmanovich were detained at the railway station in Hrodna.
17.12.2008 BPF party activist detained, all information materials seized
On December 16 an activist of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Yauhen Soshka who planned to hand out the special edition of the bulletin of the regional party organization was detained in Brest.
16.12.2008 Five youth activists detained in Minsk
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16.12.2008 Riot police detained church minister for evangelization
Minister of New Life Church (Full Gospel Churches Association) Siarhei Lukanin was detained by riot policemen for evangelization in Minsk.
16.12.2008 Another Detention for Distributing "Novy Chas"
Distributor of independent newspaper detained at local administration
15.12.2008 Minsk: detention for distribution of independent press
On 15 December the police detained the activists of the Young Front Yuliyan Misiukevich and Aliaksei Savinkou for distribution of the Young Front newspapers Svislatskaye Recha and flags with inscriptions ‘Let MTS be in Belarusian!’
15.12.2008 Police detain busses with entrepreneurs heading for protest action in Minsk
Traffic police didn’t let two buses hired by entrepreneurs for a trip to Minsk out of Svetlahorsk.
15.12.2008 Slovakia condemns Belarus for harassment of human rights defenders
The Foreign Ministry of Slovakia condemns arrests of civil activists in Minsk on 10 December.
11.12.2008 10 December: chronicle of celebration (incomplete)
On 10 December the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was celebrated in Belarus. The event was marked by numerous detentions and other hindrance from the side of the Belarusian authorities.
11.12.2008 Hrodna: harassment of civil activists continues
Civil and political activists are still detained in Hrodna. In the morning the road police stopped the car by which a member of the For Freedom movement Ales Zarembiuk, the head of Hrodna city organization of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Vadzim Saranchukou and the head of Hrodna oblast organization of the Belarusian Social Democratic Hramada Viktar Sazonau were driving. The car was guarded to the building of the narcological dispensary.
11.12.2008 Ales Bialiatski: ‘It is prohibited to distribute Declaration of Human Rights in the country that signed it’
Vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights comments on the arrests in Minsk at 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclamation.
11.12.2008 Minsk: attempt of detention at yesterday’s ‘Young Front’ action
A policeman tried to detain one of the participants of a street action ‘Tribunal for Communism!’, but had to give up under pressure of ... elderly women passing by.
11.12.2008 Kobryn: detention for white-red-white flag
Two activists of the Young Front were detained while fixing a national white-red-white flag to a flagpole in the main square of Kobryn near the district executive committee.
10.12.2008 Belarus celebrates 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: about 30 detentions
Celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration in Belarus was marked with mass (and in some cases, quite rude) detentions of human rights defenders and civil activists.
