News on the topic: arrest
05.03.2013 Uladzimir Yaromenak's case to be reconsidered
On 15 January 2013 Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk found the "Young Front" activist Uladzimir Yaromenak guilty of a repeated violation of the norms of preventive supervision and punished with 12 days of arrest.
25.02.2013 Minsk court convicts youth activists
Minsk Tsentralny District Court convicted today eight members of the European Action movement detained yesterday outside Minsk Arena.
25.02.2013 Former political prisoner Mikita Likhavid gets extra term for December 2010 events
Representatives of Minsk Pershamaiski District Police Department demand that former political prisoner Mikita Likhavid gets an additional 10 days of administrative arrest for participation in the post-election protest back on December 19, 2010, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
21.02.2013 Minsk court convicts activist Henik Loika
Henik Loika, the activist who staged this morning a picket in support of the Belarusian language to mark International Mother Language Day, was sentenced to five days of administrative arrest.
08.02.2013 Ten days of arrest for a flash-mob about unemployment in Belarus
On 7 February an activist of the "Alternative" Dzmitry Silchanka was sentenced to ten days of arrest under Article 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, "Violation of the order of organization and holding mass events". The verdict was pronounced by the Savetski District Court of Minsk.
24.01.2013 Young Front member Uladzimir Yaromenak arrested for 12 days for violation of supervision
The Young Front activist will serve his sentence at the Minsk-based Delinquents Isolation Center in Akrestsin Street, the Young Front’s press-service reports.
14.01.2013 Aleh Volchak addresses UN Human Rights Committee in connection with arrests
The head of the human rights center "Legal Assistance to the Population" Aleh Volchak applied to the UN Human Rights Committee with a complaint in which he lists the facts of systemic violation of the civil rights to freedom and personal immunity, as well as the use of politically motivated adverse discrimination.
10.01.2013 "Tell the Truth!" activists sentenced to arrest
The Kastrychnitski District Court of Minsk sentenced the activist of the "Tell the Truth!" movement Sviatlana Volkava to 5 days of arrest. Two other activists, Yury Fabisheuski and Aliaksei Marozau, were sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
19.12.2012 Young Front activist Mikola Dzemidzenka sentenced to 5 days in prison
Mikola Dzemidzenka, deputy chairman of the Young Front opposition movement, was sentenced yesterday to 5 days of administrative arrest, Nasha Niva newspaper reports.
17.12.2012 Pavel Vinahradau sentenced to 5 days of arrest
Pavel Vinahradau, leader of the Zmena youth wing of the civil campaign “Tell the Truth!”, was sentenced today to 5 days of administrative arrest.
06.12.2012 Artist Ales Pushkin sentenced to 12 days of arrest
The artist was tried behind closed doors. The trial was conducted by Maryna Zapasnikava, a judge from the Leninski District Court of Minsk.
05.12.2012 Hrodna region: authorities continue haunting participants of insurgents' commemoration
The police continue looking for participants of the commemorative action in honor of the anti-Russian insurgents of 1863-1864, held on 27 October 2012 in the Svislach district.
05.12.2012 Pushkin holds performance before appealing against his arrest
The artist Ales Pushkin appealed an earlier verdict of the Smarhon District Court at the Supreme Court of Belarus.
03.12.2012 Ivan Kruk files another appeal against the police actions
On 21 September the environmental activists Ivan Kruk and Mikalai Ulasevich were detained by the police. The detainees' apartments were searched, Kruk and Ulasevich were questioned concerning the alleged distribution of illegal electoral agitation matter.
29.11.2012 Have charges to Haidukou been changed?
The arrested civil activist is being transferred from Minsk to Vitsebsk. Andrei Haidukou's mother received this information from a lawyer, RFE/RL reports.
