News on the topic: political parties & movements
13.05.2009 Baranavichy: police detain ‘Young Front’ activist Piatro Ruzau
In the night of 12-13 May in Baranavichy the police detained the activist Piatro Ruzau for making graffiti ‘Freedom to political prisoners!’ and ‘Freedom to Autukhovich!’ on the walls of the local meat processing and packing factory in the center of the city.
13.05.2009 Detention of youth activists in Minsk
On 12 May the Young Front Minsk coordinator Pavel Kuryianovich and an activist Viktoryia Ladzis were detained in Minsk.
12.05.2009 Belarusian Christian Democracy Party gets no registration
Co-chairmen of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party call the decision of the authorities illegal and ungrounded. According to them, the Justice Ministry has simply executed a political order.
12.05.2009 ‘Young Social Democrats’ denied registration
The Ministry of Justice of Belarus refused to register the pubic association Young Social Democrats – Young Hramada.
11.05.2009 Neonazi attack activists of ‘BNF Youth’
On 9 May several teenagers in Navapolatsk, who call themselves members of the neo-Nazi organization Russian National Unity attacked girls, activists of the local branch of the BNF Youth (youth organization of the Belarusian Popular Front party).
11.05.2009 Detention of political activists on the eve of Victory Day Parade
Two Young Front activists were detained when they left the BPF office to buy water.
11.05.2009 8 May: detentions in the center of Minsk
Riot police forces were thrown in Minsk center in the evening of 8 May. Many people, both opposition activists and passers-by, were detained.
09.05.2009 Vadzim Kanapatski filed complaint to prosecutor’s office
The deputy head of Minsk city organization of the BPF Party Vadzim Kanapatski, unlawfully detained on the eve of 7 May action, has filed a complaint to Tsentralny district prosecutor’s office against the unlawful actions of the police officers.
09.05.2009 Police beat up participants of 7 May action
Participants of the rally on 7 May were beaten even for a denial to be fingerprinted, though formally this procedure is voluntary.
08.05.2009 26 people on hunger strike in solidarity with political prisoners
The number of participants of a hunger strike in solidarity with political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich is increasing every day.
07.05.2009 Action in the memory of Yury Zakharanka ends with mass detentions
On 7 May at 6 p.m. several hundred people came to an action of commemoration of the ex-minister of interior Yury Zakharanka who has been missing for ten years already. The people were holding the photos of Zakharanka and the photos of the political prisoners Mikalai Autukhovich, Uladzimir Asipenka and Yury Liavonau.
07.05.2009 6th day of action of solidarity: Mikalai Autukhovich hungers for 20 days already
On 6 May the action of solidarity with political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich, who has gone on indefinite hunger strike, was held in Kastrychnitskaya Square of Minsk in presence of riot policemen and law enforcement officers in mufti.
06.05.2009 Brest city executive committee banned the picket dedicated to the tenth anniversary of disappearance of Yury Zakharanka
Brest city executive committee did not grant the application for the picket, dedicated to the tenth anniversary of disappearance of the former minister of interior Yury Zakharanka. The politician was kidnapped on 7 May 1999 and has been missing since then.
06.05.2009 Ministry of Justice is considering an anonymous letter related to Belarusian Christian Democracy Party
On 6 May a co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Pavel Seviarynets and the responsible secretary of the party Dzianis Sadouski had a meeting with the justice minister Viktar Halavanau concerning registration of the party.
06.05.2009 Action of solidarity with political prisoners: day five
Before the rally of solidarity that was to start in Kastrychnitskaya Square of Minsk on 5 May in the evening, several street cleaning machines arrived to the scene. For some time people couldn’t stay on the square, as they risked to be showered by water.
