09.08.2010 Human rights activist Valery Schukin detained in Mahiliou

A human rights activist Valery Schukin has been detained in Mahiliou. He is being kept in Lenin District police office, reports Radio Liberty.

09.08.2010 Opposition activist arrested in Minsk. Criminal case initiated

Mikhail Bashura, an activist of Tell the Truth campaign, was detained at his apartment’s doors on August 6.

Radio Svaboda learnt this from Bashura’s associate Aleh Myatelitsa.

02.08.2010 Young people in Belarus arrested for national symbols

On August 1 two Young Front activists were detained in the town of Barysau for propagation of national symbols.

On Sunday evening policemen detained Hanna Sharuba and Uladzislau Yaryomenka in Barysau. The Young Front members were decorating the town with national symbols, the press-service of the Young Front informs.

27.07.2010 Vitsebsk: Aleh Surhan released from jail

On 27 July 27 morning Aleh Surhan, a political prisoner, was released from the colony in the town of Hlybokaye.

14.07.2010 Vitsebsk: Siarhei Kavalenka goes on hunger-strike in prison

On 8 July, the Vitsebsk activist of the Conservative-Christian Party Belarusian Popular Front was put in a temporary detention facility for 10 days on decision of the Pershamaiski District Police Department.

28.06.2010 Opposition activist Kavalenka arrested

On 25 June, opposition activist Siarhei Kavalenka was arrested by Vitsebsk special police squad and taken to the city’s Pershamaiski court, www.charter97.org reports, quoting the activist’s mother.

23.06.2010 Mahiliou: Havary Praudu volunteers released

The four activists of the ‘Havary Praudu’ civil campaign detained yesterday by Mahiliou police were finally released without charges, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.

22.06.2010 Detentions in Mahiliou

Today, on 22 June the Mahiliou police detained two groups of activists, as they were distributing printed materials of the ‘Havary Praudu’ civil campaign in the city’s ‘Salominka’ district.

15.06.2010 Anatol Paplauny reports UN Human Rights Committee about unlawful punishment

Anatol Paplauny, a Homel human rights defender who had received administrative punishment for participation in the Chain of Concerned People, an action dedicated to commemoration of the missing public and political activists and support to their families and political prisoners, passed an individual communication to the UN Human Rights Committee in connection with violation by Belarus of his rights to fair trial and freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.

31.05.2010 Opposition activist from Mahiliou detained after Young Front congress

Uladzimir Zorki from Mahiliou ended up being detained and interrogated by special agents after the 7th founding congress of the Malady Front (Young Front) organization.

The policemen arrested the young man on October Square, when he was with his friends in the center of Minsk awaiting his train to Mahiliou, Young Front spokesman Stanislau Stesik told Euroradio.

27.05.2010 Belgium national to appeal illegal arrest by Belarusian police

Today, on 27 May, a Belgium citizen Adrien Baudouin lodged a complaint with Minsk Maskouski Court, appealing against illegal actions by the police on 17 May, when he was illegally detained together with other participants of an educational event – screening of a film.

18.05.2010 Dozens searches across Belarus

The local offices of the ‘Havary Praudu’ civil campaign are searched by the police and the KGB, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports. The cities under attack include Brest, Homel, Hrodna, Barysau, Mahiliou and Minsk. The search at the campaign’s Minsk office was sanctioned by the city’s Leninski Prosecutor’s Office. The law enforcement agencies seize office equipment and printed materials.

17.05.2010 Distributor of ‘Novy Chas’ independent newspaper detained by Hrodna police

Dzmitry Bandarchuk, activist of the United Civic Party, was arrested by the Hrodna city police as he was carrying 200 copies of officially registered newspaper ‘Novy Chas’. The distributor was detained outside the city’s bus station, a few minutes after he received the newspapers from his partner and reported this to a friend of his by the phone.

11.05.2010 Vitsebsk: Kavalenka brothers released from jail

On 10 May morning, the Vitsebsk activists Siarhei and Vital Kavalenkas were released from the pre-trial prison where they were kept for a day.

22.04.2010 Three more Young Front activists detained

On 21 April the Minsk police detained three Young Front activists Uladzimer Yaromenka, Uladzimer Dziaviatka and Ilya Murayeu for distributing the Chernobyl Shliakh-2010 newspaper, advertising the event, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.