News on the topic: arrest
20.12.2013 Opposition activist goes on hunger strike over arrest
Judge Viktorya Shabunia of Minsk Tsentralny District Court punished opposition activist Maksim Viniarski with an administrative arrest of 15 days for involvement in a picket of solidarity with Ukrine’s pro-EU protest, which was held outside the Embassy of Ukraine in Minsk on November 30.
19.11.2013 Human rights defender Andrei Bandarenka released
Andrei Bandarenka, leader of the of the human rights institution “Platform Innovation”, was released today after serving five days of arrest.
14.11.2013 Hrodna resident Vadzim Tsiarletski sentenced to three days of arrest
On 13 November the Kastrychnitski District Cour of Minsk considered the administrative case of Vadzim Tsiarletski, detained at the central railway station of Minsk on 12 November.
11.11.2013 Leanid Smouzh sentenced to five days of arrest
The Leninski District Court of Minsk considered the administrative case of Leanid Smouzh, detained on 10 November after a procession and rally in Loshytsa. The reason for the detention was the fact that the resident of Stoubtsy district was wearing a T-shirt with the inscription "For Belarus without Lukashenka".
11.11.2013 Dzmitry Dashkevich complains about the conditions in the center for the isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street
On 11 November the co-chairman of the “Young Front" Dzmitry Dashkevich complained to the prosecutor of Minsk. Dashkevich asks to check whether the conditions of detention comply with the standards in the Center for isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street.
06.11.2013 Citizens, detained near the detention facility in Akrestsin Street, released in three hours
On 6 November the police arrested nine people who came to the center for the isolation of offenders in Akrestsin Street to meet the Homel resident Yury Rubtsou, detained after the end of the “Dziady” rally in Minsk and sentenced to 3 days of arrest for the alleged “insubordination to the police”.
04.11.2013 Human rights defenders consider the sentence to Yury Rubtsou as politically motivated revenge
On 4 November the Savetski District Court of Minsk sentenced the participant of the mass event “Dziady" (“Forefathers Eve") Yury Rubtsou to three-day administrative arrest. Judge Dzmitry Pauliuchenka, having considered the administrative case of the opposition activist, found him guilty of "insubordination" to police officers (Article 23.4 of the Administrative Code).
30.09.2013 Young opposition activist Pavel Vinahradaw arrested by police over «pig protest»
Prominent young opposition activist Pavel Vinahradaw was arrested by police near his home in Minsk on Friday and is expected to be charged for displaying pig heads with signs attached to them in downtown Yakub Kolas Square earlier in the day, BelaPAN said.
04.08.2013 Barysau: human rights defender didn't manage to find about the location of priest Uladzislau Lazar
A month ago the Barysau society was astonished by the news about the arrest of reverend Uladzislau Lazar, rector of the local parish of Holy Spirit, and his placement in the remand prison of the KGB. Human rights defender Maryna Statkevich unsuccessfully tried to find out where he was kept, in order to pass him the necessary things.
29.07.2013 Minsk activists sentenced to short prison terms for displaying white-red-white flags
The Court of Minsk Partyzanski district considered today the cases of three activists of the Alternatyva opposition campaign, Aleh Korban, Zmitser Silchanka and Aleh Keral, who were detained on Friday while displaying the national white-red-white flags on a bridge near the Partyzanskaya metro station.
26.07.2013 Tell the Truth activist arrested for 10 days
Vital Vasilkou, activist of the Tell the Truth civic campaign, is at the jail in Akrescina Street.
05.06.2013 Ministry of Foreign Affairs is asked about publication of the decision of the UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus is asked to tell where a decision of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women was published.
15.05.2013 BAJ demands Review Proceedings in the Cases of Arrested Journalists
On May 13 the public association BAJ filed official letters to the Investigative Committee, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Home Affairs, and the Prosecutor General, demanding to investigate the allegations of arbitrary detentions and arrests of journalists on May 7 and April 25.
13.05.2013 Health Service assures politician that prisoners are kept in good conditions in Vitsebsk detention center
Having served five days of arrest at the Vitsebsk detention center for spreading leaflets with invitation to Freedom Day rally, the head of the Vitsebsk regional branch of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Leanid Autukhou had to apply for medical assistance.
08.05.2013 Journalists Halko and Yarashevich sentenced to arrest
In the evening of 6 May Aliaksandr Yarashevich, a journalist of the Belarusian service of Radio "Racyja", and blogger Dzmitry Halko were detained near the metro station "Mikhalova". At about 8.40 p.m. a bus with riot policemen stopped near them, the guys were pulled into a car and taken to Maskouski District Police Department in Minsk.
