News on the topic: political parties & movements
04.12.2008 Navapolatsk:: opposition activists unlawfully kept at sobering station all night
The chairman of Navapolatsk branch of BPF Youth (youth wing of the BPF Party) Mikhas Novikau and a member of the organization Andrus Halavyryn had to sped a night in a sobering station.
03.12.2008 Signatures against construction of nuclear power plant are collected in Astravets district
Ivan Kruk and Mikola Ulasevich, members of the United Civil Party from Astravets, have started collecting signatures against construction of a nuclear power plant on the territory of Astravets district.
03.12.2008 Pickets near monuments to Lenin are banned
Minsk city executive committee didn’t permit holding a picket near a monument to Vladimir Lenin in Independence square on 8 December.
03.12.2008 Democratic activist Ihar Salavei is… wanted
It has been found out today that activist of the For Freedom movement Ihar Salavei is put on the wanted list. He learnt it when he came to the Pinsk military enlistment office.
02.12.2008 Astravets: police detain civil activists on the way to nuclear power station building site
The leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka, a journalist Vadzim Kaznacheyeu and a leader of the youth wing of the UCP, ‘Young Democrats’, Alexander Serhiyenka, have been detained in Astravets.
02.12.2008 Minsk: action of solidarity with political prisoner Barazenka
An action of solidarity with political prisoner Alexander Barazenka was traditionally held near the prison in Valadarski Street of Minsk yesterday.
20.11.2008 Young Front activists detained near Supreme Court
Security guards of the Supreme Court detained “Young Front” activists Nasta Palazhanka and minor Yulya Mikhailava.
19.11.2008 Authorities hide truth about political prisoner Barazenka
A lawyer wasn’t allowed to visit political prisoner Barazenka, activist of the civil campaign “European Belarus”, kept in a detention facility in Valadarski Street.
18.11.2008 “Young Front” activist faces trial for solidarity rally
Leader of Pinsk branch of the “Young Front” Ales Liubianchuk faces trial for a recent rally in support of the political prisoner Aliaksandar Barazenka.
18.11.2008 Wife of opposition politician called to KGB
On November 14, Nasta Chernik-Rymasheuskaya, wife of the co-chairman of the organising committee for creation of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Vital Rymasheuski, was called to the KGB for giving evidence.
18.11.2008 Opposition member Dzianis Sadouski searched on border
Dzianis Sadouski, executive secretary of the Organising committee for creation of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party, was detained when crossing the Belarusian-Polish border last weekend.
11.11.2008 Minsk: ‘Young Front’ activist is detained for action near Leninski district court
On 10 November at 10 p.m. the police detained the activist of the Young Front Mikalai Dzemidzenka who had taken part in the action in support to the young oppositionists who had been tried at Leninski district court for holding an anticommunist picket near the KGB office on 7 November.
10.11.2008 Hrodna oblast: police continue harassment of Anatol Valiuk
Anatol Valiuk, political activist and head of the Belarusian Popular Front party of Svislach town (the Hrodna oblast), is persecuted by local police.
10.11.2008 Polatsk: youth activists to stand trial for anti-communist action
Reports were drawn up against Polatsk youth activists for they unfurled a national white-red-white flag and an orange flag of the initiative Young Belarus in the city center.
10.11.2008 Saliahorsk: human rights activist Yana Paliakova is guarded to court by police
On 10 November in Salihorsk, a police officer came up to Yana Palyakova and ordered to follow him to the court.
