News on the topic: arrest
13.03.2012 Barysau: Ihar Askerka sentenced to 10 days of arrest
Ihar Askerka, the son of activist Anatoly Askerka, was tried today in Barysau. Anatol was arrested earlier for an action to support political prisoner Andrei Sannikau.
12.03.2012 Antol Askerka's son gets detained
On 11 March Barysau police detained activist of "European Belarus" Ihar Askerka who was holding a picket of solidarity with his father, sentenced to 15 days of arrest for holding an action of solidarity with political prisoner Andrei Sannikau.
12.03.2012 Barysau: detained activists sentenced to arrest
On 10 March Herasimovich, Judge of the Barysau District Court, considered the administrative cases against Anatol Askerka and Ivan Shutko and sentenced them to 15 and 10 days of arrest for participation in an unauthorized mass action.
06.03.2012 Uladzimir Katsora appeals fine at UN Human Rights Committee
On 5 March Homel oppositionist Uladzimir Katsora filed an individual communication with the UN Human Rights Committee. The activist is of the opinion that the Belarusian authorities who were represented by the police officers who detained him and fined for the organization of a People's Assembly, violated Articles 19 and 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – the right to disseminate information and freedom of peaceful assemblies.
06.03.2012 Uladzimir Katsora appeals fine at UN Human Rights Committee
On 5 March Homel oppositionist Uladzimir Katsora filed an individual communication with the UN Human Rights Committee. The activist is of the opinion that the Belarusian authorities who were represented by the police officers who detained him and fined for the organization of a People's Assembly, violated Articles 19 and 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – the right to disseminate information and freedom of peaceful assemblies.
05.03.2012 “Young Front” activist Ivan Shyla describes prison conditions
On 4 March, Ivan Shyla, the “Young Front” deputy head, was released from the detention centre in Akrestsin Street after 19 days in custody.
05.03.2012 Liavontsi Chapurnykh applies to UN Human Rights Committee
Liavontsi Chapurnykh, a member of the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World", filed an individual communication with the UN Human Rights Committee. He asks the committee to consider the 5-day arrest to which he was sentenced for the distribution of invitations to a People's Assembly, as a violation of his rights.
05.03.2012 Pavel Vinahradau tried again
Pavel Vinahradau, activist of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth!" was to have been released from jail on 2 March, after serving 10-day arrest for participation in an "unauthorized picket of toys" on Nezalezhnasts Square in Minsk.
05.03.2012 Aliaksandr Artsybashau gets 7 more days of arrest instead of release from jail
Aliaksandr Artsybashau, activist of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth!", was detained near the Maskouski District Court of Minsk on 22 February and sentenced to 10 days of arrest for participation in the "unauthorized picket of toys" on Nezalezhnasts Square in Minsk.
01.03.2012 Minsk: mail correspondence restrictions applied to Ivan Shyla
The parents of Ivan Shyla, the “Young Front” activist who is serving a 22-day prison term in the delinquents’ isolation center in Akrestsin Street in Minsk, received only two out of the three letters he had sent them. Fellow activist from Salihorsk, who had sent letters of support to him, received them back with the mark “doesn’t reside”.
23.02.2012 Young Front activists convicted in absentia
On 22 February, Vitsebsk District Court sentenced four Young Front activists to three days of administrative arrest each for alleged disorderly conduct.
23.02.2012 Alyaksandr Artsybashau sentenced to 10 days in custody
Alyaksandr Artsybashau, who was detained in the building of the Maskouski district court of Minsk, was sentenced to 10 days in custody.
22.02.2012 Pavel Vinahradau sentenced to 10 days of arrest, another activist awaiting charges
Today, Minsk Maskouski District Court has sentenced activist of the “Tell the Truth” civil campaign Pavel Vinahradau to 10 days of administrative arrest for staging an event outside the city’s executive committee on 10 February.
15.02.2012 Ivan Shyla to spend 22 days in jail
Ivan Shyla, one of the leaders of the “Young Front”, who was detained by riot police before “I Love Belarus” award giving ceremony, is in a detention center in Akrestsin Street now.
15.02.2012 Soviet of Republic doesn’t support proposal of Homel oppositionists
The Administration of the President and the Soviet of the Republic rejected the request of Homel opposition to initiate proceedings at the Constitutional Court for putting the administrative legislation in line with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Administration of the President did not even consider the appeal filed by Uladzimir Katsora and Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh on its merrits and the Soviet of the Republic responded that the administrative legislation, namely the Procedural-Executive Code of Administrative Offences complies with the Constitution and the International Covenant.
