News on the topic: arrest
04.07.2011 Mahiliou: intimidation and arrests
Unidentified persons threatened opposition activists and journalists with “responsibility” for participation in the silent action of protest Revolution Through Social Networks.
04.07.2011 Head of Rahachou Belarusian Christian Democracy sentenced to 5 days in jail
On 1 July Dzianis Dashkevich, the head of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy in the town of Rahachou, was sentenced to 5 days of jail.
29.06.2011 BCD Brest activist sentenced to 7 days of arrest
Zmitser Shurkhai, Brest regional coordinator of the Belarusian Christian Democracy organizing committee, has been convicted of disorderly conduct (Art. 17.1) by Brest Maskouski District Court this morning.
15.06.2011 UPB Activist Ihar Bantsar sentenced to 5 days of arrest
Journalist Andrzej Pisalnik said that Ihar Bantsar, an activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus, was sentenced to five days of arrest.
06.05.2011 Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka serves arrest with breaks
On 1 April the criminal-executive commission sentenced the Vitsebsk activist of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front Siarhei Kavalenka to 15 days of arrest for an alleged violation of the regime of personal restraint, to three years of which he had been sentenced to putting a white-red-white flag atop the main New Year tree of Vitsebsk on 7 January 2010.
04.05.2011 Journalist Uladzimir Laptsevich appeals prison nutrition fee
On 26 March – 1 April Uladzimir Laptsevich, a journalist with the information agency BelaPAN served an administrative arrest term in the Mahiliou isolator.
25.04.2011 Ales Kalita sentenced to 10 days of arrest
Today, Homel Chyhunachny District Court sentenced Ales Kalita, former leader of the BPF Youth, to 10 days of administrative arrest for alleged disorderly conduct.
20.04.2011 Journalist Uladzimir Laptsevich appeals judge's actions
On 19 April Uladzimir Laptsevich, a journalist with the BelaPAN information agency, lodged a claim with the Chair of the main justice department of the Mahiliou Region Executive Committee, Aliaksandr Maimusau. He appeals actions of a judge of the Leninski District Court of Mahiliou Lanchava and an answer of the Chair of the court, Kuzhaleva, to him.
12.04.2011 Mahiliou: sentence to Maksim Antsypovich left standing
On 12 April Uladzimir Navitaniuk, Judge of the Mahiliou Region Court, considered the appeal of Maksim Antsypovich against the fine imposed on him for participation in an unauthorized picket in Mahiliou on 16 January.
07.04.2011 Vitsebsk prosecutor is required to stop unlawful prosecution of Siarhei Kavalenka
Siarhei Kavalenka, activist of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front was hospitalized from jail because of problems with his heart. His comrade Barys Khamaida addressed the city prosecutor with the demand to stop the unlawful prosecution of the activist aimed at spoiling his health, breaking him as a person and doing harm to his pregnant wife and 6-year-old son.
04.04.2011 Siarhei Kavalenka holds two protest hunger-strikes in a row
Siarhei Kavalenka, an activist of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front, was detained for coming to the center of Vitsebsk with three white-red-white flags and chanting slogans on 25 March. He was charged with “disorderly conduct” and sentenced to 7 days of arrest.
04.04.2011 Administration of detention center in Akrestsin Street doesn’t accept medicines for Yauhen Kontush
A National-Bolshevik Yauhen Kontush, arrested for participation in an action of protest against the decision of the penalty execution department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to close the only hospital for prisoners, was in a poor health condition and had fever when he was delivered to Akrestsin Street detention center. The court sentenced him to 12 days of arrest. Yauhen Kontush had a sick note with the diagnosis "quinsy" with him, moreover, he was appointed to visit his doctor that day.
29.03.2011 Homel activist appeals illegal arrest
Homel opposition activist Uladzimir Niapomniashchykh has lodged a complaint with Homel Regional Court, arguing that he was illegally prosecuted for alleged disorderly conduct on 25 March.
01.03.2011 Mahiliou: Maksim Antsypovich fined 525,000 rubles for participation in unauthorized picket
On 1 March Iryna Saroka, judge of the Mahiliou Leninski District Court, considered the administrative case of Maksim Antsypovich, charged with participation in an unauthorized picket on 16 January, and fined him 525,000 rubles (about $175).
15.02.2011 Vadzim Kabanchuk sentenced to 10 days of arrest
In the morning of 15 February Vadzim's mother, Taisiya Kabanchuk, was waiting for him at the Maskouski District Court of Minsk, where he was to have been taken for a trial. His friends phoned to all Minsk courts trying to find about the time and place of the trial. Only in the afternoon they were informed that the trial had already taken place, Vadzim had been sentenced to 10 days of arrest for participation in the 19 December protest action in central Minsk, and guarded to the delinquents' isolation center in Akrestsin Street.
