10.06.2010 Counsel Hrabouski: verdict to Yakavenka was copied from prosecutor's ruling

On 9 June, lawyer Yauhen Hrabouski familiarized with a copy of the verdict to his client, conscientious objector Yauhen Yakavenka, who has been recently punished by the Tsentralny District Court of Homel with 1 year of personal restraint with direction to an open penitentiary institution.

10.06.2010 Ales Ramanovich to be tried

On 9 June, Ales Ramanovich, Pinsk activist of the Belarusian Popular Front Party and the movement For Freedom, was interrogated for about 1.5 hours by a police inspector Andrei Rusin. The KGB officer, who watched the activist during the last several days, was present at the interrogation as well.

10.06.2010 Vitsebsk: Mikola Dzemidzenka detained again

Mikola Dzemidzenka, a Young Front leader, came to Vitsebsk to meet with the local youth.

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.

09.06.2010 Pinsk: KGB continues harassment of Ales Ramanovich

As said by Ales Ramanovich, a Pinsk activist of the Belarusian Popular Front Party, officers of the police and KGB have been trying to guard him to the Pinsk Town Police Department y any means during the last three days, referring to an administrative case instigated against him. However, they refused to present him an official writ, that's why he refused to come to the police department.

09.06.2010 Opposition newspaper 'Tovarishch' warned as well

The Information Ministry of Belarus has issued an official warning to founders of Tovarishch, the printed organ of the Belarusian Leftist Party Fair World.

08.06.2010 Vaukavysk: disabled UCP activist can go on hunger-strike of protest

A UCP activist from Vaukavysk, Vital Huliak, was unable to receive his disability pension, because his bank card had been seized by the police.

04.06.2010 Belarusian human rights defenders informed Amnesty International about sentence to Yauhen Yakavenka

On 4 June, Tatsiana Shvets, Judge of the Tsentralny District Court of Homel, sentenced Yauhen Yakavenka, an activist of the organizing committee of the Party of Belarusian Christian Democracy, to a year of personal restraint for 'evasion from military service'. Mr. Yakavenka was released till the enforcement of the sentence under a written undertaking not to leave. The activist and his counsel, Yauhen Hrabouski, disagree with the verdict and stated they would appeal against it.

03.06.2010 Beaten youth activist demands a criminal case be instigated against policemen

On 27 May, the police violently dispersed a bicycle rally organized by activists of the BPF Youth. Several participants of the action were detained and beaten. One of them, Zmitser Parmon, was taken to clinical hospital #6 with fracture of a clavicle.

02.06.2010 Brest: interrogations of activists of BSDP 'Hramada'

Brest activists of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party Hramada were summoned to police for interrogation in connection with the recent searches at the places of activists of the Speak Truth campaign.

02.06.2010 Mazyr: opposition ex-candidate Uladzimir Tseliapun is dismissed from work

On 31 May, having returned to work from vacations, the member of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Uladzimir Tselyapun, a former candidate for the Homel Regional Council of Deputies at Palesskaya election constituency #43, received a notice about the termination of his labor contract since 30 January 2010.

01.06.2010 'BPF Youth' activists apply to procuracy concerning their beating by police

Two BPF Youth activists, Franak Viachorka and Zmitser Parmon, addressed the procuracy in order to find out the names of riot policemen who had beaten them during the detention.

31.05.2010 Opposition activist from Mahiliou detained after Young Front congress

Uladzimir Zorki from Mahiliou ended up being detained and interrogated by special agents after the 7th founding congress of the Malady Front (Young Front) organization.

The policemen arrested the young man on October Square, when he was with his friends in the center of Minsk awaiting his train to Mahiliou, Young Front spokesman Stanislau Stesik told Euroradio.

28.05.2010 UCP Hrodna activist faces civil charges

Dzmitry Bandarchuk, Hrodna activist of the United Civil Party, is charged with illegal distribution of the ‘Novy Chas’ independent newspaper.

21.05.2010 KGB interested in Homel member of Young Front

A Homel member of 'Young Front' Antos Nazaranka (2-year student of law faculty of Francysk Skaryna state university) has been summoned for an interrogation in KGB today, on May 20. The press secretary of 'Young Front' Stanislau Stesik has informed ERB about it.