News on the topic: political parties & movements
09.07.2010 Artur Finkevich hospitalized after assault
Artur Finkevich and Aliaksandr Lykshyn were going to the central office of the Belarusian Popular Front along Masherau Avenue in Minsk. Suddently, several people ran towards them, sprayed an unknown liquid in Artur's eyes and knocked him down.
08.07.2010 ‘Speak Truth’ wins trial
On 8 July, the Minsk Economic Court didn’t grant the claim of the Minsk City Executive Committee about the liquidation of the educational establishment Movement Forward, the organizer of the Speak Truth civil campaign.
07.07.2010 Court dismissed Yury Varonezhtsau's lawsuit
Ryhor Dzmitrenka, Chairperson of the Tsentralny District Court of Homel, returned without consideration the lawsuit that had been filed by the civil and political activist Yury Varonezhtsau against the Police Department of the Homel Region Executive Committee and advised the plaintiff to apply to procuracy.
07.07.2010 Activist of 'Speak Truth' Aksana Samuilava fined 350,000 rubles
The opposition activist was detained while handing out the Svobodnye Novosti Plus newspaper near the Liftmash plant on 19 May. The plant’s chief security officer Shulau and two guards took 15 copies of the paper from the girl and forced her to go to the office of the plant’s administration. Aksana had to spend here about an hour and then was passed to the police.
05.07.2010 BSU rector reprimands ‘Young Front’ activist
On 14 May, the first day of the City Is Ours campaign, launched by the Young Front, a student of the physical faculty of Belarusian State University Yulyan Misiukevich was detained by the riot police. He was accused of using obscene language and fined.
05.07.2010 Attempt to detain Artur Finkevich
People in mufti tried to detain the leader of the Young Belarus movement, Artur Finkevich, and Nasta Mashchava, a coordinator of the movement.
05.07.2010 Minsk: detention of activists of ‘Speak Truth’ campaign
On 3 July, activists of the civil campaign Speak Truth laid down flowers to the Chaliuskintsy monument and the Military cemetery where victims of the Soviet regime and World War II were buried as well as the Belarusian poets Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala.
05.07.2010 ’Investigation’ of Zakharanka’s abduction extended once again
Human rights activists are of the opinion that there’s no real investigation of the cases of the abducted political and civil activists.
02.07.2010 BCD activist detained at pilgrimage in Budslau
On 1 July, an activist of the Party of Belarusian Christian Democracy, Kastus Shytal, was detained in the village of the Budslau in the Miadzel district of the Minsk region during the traditional festivities in honor of the icon of Our Lay of Budslau.
01.07.2010 Detained ‘Young Front’ activist complains about police boundlessness
At 12.45 a.m. Uladzimir Yaromenka, a Young Front activist, was detained by the police near the Kamarouski market in Minsk for posting stickers.
25.06.2010 Young Front activists detained in Minsk
Today, on 25 June the Minsk police detained two members of the unregistered ‘Young Front’ youth movement Alena Makarevich and Zmitser Yasevich, as they were distributing red-white-red flags, stickers and leaflets as part of the ‘City is Ours’ civil campaign, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
15.06.2010 Detention of activists of United Civil Party and 'Speak Truth' campaign
A camera crew of the Polish TV channel BelSat was detained on 15 June while making video shots in the yard of Belarusian State University. A camera was damaged during the detention.
14.06.2010 Slonim: BPF activists charged with crossing the street in the wrong place
On 13 June, two activists of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, Aliaksandr Harasiuk and Pavel Sevastsyan, were detained by a road policeman while going to the city park by pavement. He demanded that they got into his car for drawing a report about a violation of the traffic rules.
11.06.2010 Mikola Dzemidzenka is charged with posting leaflets in Vitsebsk
On 10 June, a leader of the Young Front, Mikola Dzemidzenka, was detained by policemen with assault rifles in Vitsebsk, where he come to meet with activists of the Young Front and the Party of Belarusian Christian Democracy. The activist was detained on a trolleybus, before the eyes of passengers.
11.06.2010 Car with circulation of ‘Tovarishch’ newspaper detained on the border
Dzmitry Yaneka, a member of the central committee of the Belarusian Leftist Party Fair World, told BelaPAN that all copies of the fifth issue of Tovarishch were detained.
