News on the topic: search
26.03.2014 Hrodna-based activist searched for stickers with Putin
The home of activist and journalist of Hrodna Ales Kirkevich was searched. The police were looking for stickers depicting Putin, but didn't found anything.
25.03.2014 Police, village soviet checking on Zhyznewski’s nephew ahead of Freedom Day demonstration in Minsk
A nephew of a Mikhail Zhyznewski, a Belarusian young man killed in Kyiv in late January, has been visited by police and contacted by the village soviet over his plans to participate in a "Dzen Voli" (Freedom Day) demonstration in Minsk on March 25.
21.03.2014 Home of Smarhon resident searched over bulletin about election boycott
Uladzimir Shulzhytski was detained for handing out human rights bulletins.
05.03.2014 Journalist searched and questioned for six hours on the border
Pavel Mitskevich, correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belorusi, was searched and questioned by Russian border guards for six hours.
22.12.2013 Mother of BCD activist writes to Baranavichy Prosecutor’s Office
Iryna Karnitskaya, mother of Artsiom Babei, activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, filed a complaint with Baranavichy Interdistrict Prosecutor’s Office about the 18 December raid on their apartment. She says that two plainclothes policemen showed a search warrant signed by the Investigative Committee, but refused to leave a copy of this document.
19.12.2013 Police search apartment of BCD activist in Baranavichy
The police Baranavichy searched last evening the apartment of Artsiom Babei, local activist of the Belarusian Christian Democracy, the BCD press-service reports quoting its coordinator in the Brest region Zmitser Shurkhai.
24.10.2013 Raid on blogger's home in Babruisk
Police officers raided the flat of blogger Aleh Zhalnou.
11.10.2013 Baranavichy police search the apartment of social activist Mikalai Charnavus
At 18 p.m. on 10 October officers of the Baranavichy City Police Department conducted a search at the apartment of Mikalai Charnavus.
19.08.2013 Police raid apartment of blogger who filmed house of head of Svetlahorsk district government
Police raided the apartment of blogger and civil society activist Henadz Zhuleha in Svetlahorsk, Homyel region, on August 17, days after he filmed the luxurious house of the head of the Svetlahorsk District Executive Committee and posted the clip on the Internet.
19.07.2013 Babruisk police raid apartment of civil society activist
The apartment of Valiantsina Kavalenka, an activist of a civil Initiative against lawlessness in the courts and the prosecutor's offices, was searched by Babruisk police. As the woman told human rights defenders, the police searched her home for drugs.
21.05.2013 LGBT activist searched by customs officials
Aliaksei Kulik, activist of the Belarusian LGBT community, was searched by the customs officials while returning from Ukraine this morning.
01.05.2013 Babruisk: customs officers are ready to return Niakliayeu's poems to political activist
The leader of Babruisk branch of the United Civil Party Viktar Buzinayeu received a notice from the customs officers due to the "completion of the customs examination". Bear in mind that on 29 March the Buzinayeus' car was detained on the border and several brochures and a book of Uladzimir Niakliayeu's poems were found in it.
15.04.2013 Ilona Tkachova still not returned her laptop
Zhlobin member of the "Fair World" Ilona Tkachova still hasn't been returned her laptop and photo camera which have been confiscated at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
28.03.2013 LGBT human rights activist Siarhei Androsenka stripped to shorts at customs control, his passport seized
Siarhei Androsenka, activist of the GayBelarus LGBT human rights movement, was detained at the Hudahai border check point while returning from Vilnius by train. His personal belongings were carefully examined.
08.02.2013 Human rights defender Uladzimir Khilmanovich searched on the border again
In the evening of 7 February the Hrodna publicist and human rights defender Uladzimir Khilmanovich was returning to Belarus by the route bus Bialystok-Hrodna.
