News on the topic: search
04.04.2024 "You will travel around the world and tell us how the Belarusian diaspora lives." How the KGB were trying to persuade a Minsk resident to cooperate
A woman told Viasna how she managed to delete Telegram from her phone during the search and how she did not agree to cooperate with the KGB.
20.03.2024 Human rights defender Aliaksandr Vaitseshyk detained in Baranavičy during house raid
The police released a video of the raid on his home, which shows him lying on the floor during the arrest.
22.12.2023 "We need to check how well Viasna works." A former observer of the 2020 elections spoke about his detention by the KGB
Last week, employees of the State Security Committee (KGB) conducted numerous searches and inspections of former independent observers of the 2020 presidential elections.
19.12.2023 Leanid Sudalenka's house was searched, and a criminal case was opened against the former political prisoner
A new criminal case has been opened against Leanid Sudalenka under Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code (other assistance to extremist activities).
12.12.2023 A wave of searches of 2020 election observers taking place across the country
The acts of intimidation are carried out by the State Security Committee.
05.12.2023 The case of the Coordinating Council is a new attack on the civil society of Belarus
Inform human rights defenders about detentions and searches in the Coordinating Council case.
19.02.2022 Wave of searches in open penitentiaries
KGB officers arrested, searched, and interrogated convicts and former convicts serving their sentences in open penitentiaries
03.12.2021 Political persecution in Belarus on December, 2-3
With the referendum coming up, repressions against Belarusians are strengthening: people are being detained, searched and intimidated in other ways.
01.12.2021 Police search homes of Viasna activists across the country
According to the human rights defenders, searches have been conducted in the homes of at least 10 people.
09.04.2019 Belsat TV office raided by police
Police officers have searched the Minsk-based office of the TV channel Belsat, Belarusian Association of Journalists said.
20.08.2015 Apartment of Biarozauka activist searched
Two police officers in plain-clothes seized a computer and a printer from Yury Dziashuk, resident of Biarozauka, Lida district.
25.05.2015 Border guards seize laptop from human rights activist Leanid Sudalenka
Belarusian border guards searched human rights activist Leanid Sudalenka as he was returning from Lithuania last evening. As a result, they took several data storage devices and a laptop.
29.04.2015 Police search apartment of former political prisoner Aliaksandr Malchanau after return from Ukraine
Former political prisoner Aliaksandr Malchanau, who returned from Ukraine two weeks ago, wrote today on his Facebook account: “They came to seek drugs, all approved by the prosecutor. They did not find anything. They took a hard disk (now I’m without an Internet connection) and two Ukrainian SIM cards. In general, a trifle, but unpleasant, now I am without money, the Internet, and waiting for the return of the HDD, which has been confiscated dozens of times.”
06.04.2015 Kastus Zhukouski's car twice examined on the border
The customs officers detained the car of the civil society activist Kanstantsin Zhukouski for several hours.
16.03.2015 Ales Bialiatski: Authorities are trying to beat journalists and human rights activists out of the electoral process
The head of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" commented on the recent facts of the persecution of journalists and human rights defenders in Mahiliou at his public Facebook page.
