News on the topic: arrest
08.08.2011 FIDH calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Ales Bialiatski
FIDH expresses its deepest concern following the arrest today of Aliaksandr (Ales) Bialiatski, FIDH Vice-President and President of Human Rights Center Viasna.
08.08.2011 UK Minister for Europe voices concern over Bialiatski's arrest
David Lidington, minister of state for Europe at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has expressed deep concern over the detention of Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski.
08.08.2011 Journalist Tatsiana Shaputska sentenced to 10 days of arrest
Tatsiana Shaputska, a journalist of the Novy Chas newspaper, who had been detained in Horki, was sentenced to10 days of administrative arrest.
05.08.2011 Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Urgent Appeal concerning arrest of Ales Bialiatski
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your intervention in the following situation in Belarus.
05.08.2011 Human rights defender Ales Bialiatski arrested (updated)
Ales Bialiatski, Chair of the Human Rights Center Viasna, was detained at about 4.45 p.m. near Peramoha Square, by people in mufti who introduced themselves as officers of financial police. This is all he managed to tell to his colleague Uladzimir Labkovich on the phone. Then he was prohibited to talk.
05.08.2011 Statement of Human Rights Center Viasna
On 4 August 2011 Ales Bialiatski, Chair of the Human Rights Center Viasna, vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), was detained within the framework of a criminal case instigated under Article 243, part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, “concealment of profits on an especially large scale”. This article envisages up to 7 years of imprisonment with the confiscation of property.
20.07.2011 Gay movement activist Natallya Pradzed arrested for 10 days
She has been punished for an unauthorized action this way. LGBT movement activist Syarhei Pradzed has informed Euroradio about it on air.
15.07.2011 Salihorsk: Young Front activist Ivan Shyla sentenced to 8 days of arrest
Ivan Shyla, Deputy Chair of the Young Front, was detained on 13 July in the evening in the town supermarket. The hearings on his case started at the Salihorsk District Court Yesterday, but were postponed to 15 July after he demanded to be provided with advocatory services.
14.07.2011 Chronicle of 13 July protests in Minsk: people are sentenced to arrest
Policemen and people in mufti controlled the main places of gathering of protesters: the supermarkets Eurapeiski, Ryha, Chkalauski, Belarus, Karona and Niamiha. The Belarusian Internet providers temporary blocked the access to the social network Vkontakte all over Belarus.
14.07.2011 Vileika: Dzmitry Kaptsiuh sentenced to 7 days of arrest
On 13 July the third court hearing on the case of Dzmitry Kaptsiuh took place in the Vileika District Court. Judge A.Artsimovich sentenced him to 7 days of arrest for participation in the silent protest action on 6 July.
12.07.2011 Minsk protesters transferred to prison in Zhodzina
According to our information, all people who had been sentenced to arrest for participation in the silent protest actions in Minsk, except for Natallia Bakinouskaya, were transferred from the prison in Akrestsin Street to the prison in the town of Zhodzina, including the five people who were left there after the transfer of the majority of prisoners.
11.07.2011 Valery Klimichenka sentenced to 15 days of arrest
The activist was detained at the silent protest action in the town of Maladechna on 6 July. However, at the trial he demanded to summon additional witnesses. As a result, the proceedings were postponed to 11 July. However, it didn’t help the defendant, who was sentenced to 15 days of arrest, a maximal sentence provided by Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offences, “violation of the rules of organizing or holding a mass event”.
11.07.2011 Yury Salodki: beaten, imprisoned, keeping dry hunger-strike
Hanna, the wife of the arrested protester Yury Salodki, says that her husband has been keeping a dry hunger-strike for 7 days already in the prison in Akrestsin Street in Minsk. He has been sentenced to 13 days of arrest for participation in the silent protest action on Pryvakzalnaya Square in Minsk on 3 July.
11.07.2011 Uladzimir Shulzhytski sentenced to 15 days of arrest
Uladzimir Shulzhytski, a youth activist from Smarhon, was detained at the silent protest action on 6 July in Maladechna. The following day he was released from jail because of the absence of witnesses of his “misdemeanor”.
11.07.2011 Police with machine guns took journalist and human rights defender Valery Shchukin to a desolate place
Policemen with machine guns transported the well-known human rights activist to a deserted district of Minsk.
