The Belarusian authorities have
apparently decided to neutralize Belarusian activists in the run-up of
the Freedom Day march on March 25.
Moreover, brutal arrest of the people for unknown reasons began after Lukashenka’s statement that gunmen with weapons who were preparing a provocation had been detained in Belarus.
20.39 Minsk: Civil activist and co-founder of the
youth organization Zubr Yauhen Afnagel has been detained on Wednesday
evening. His flat is being searched.
Homiel
The police attempted to break in Mikalai Peshkou’s flat; as of 21.30, the activist is at liberty;
A protocol was drawn upon Andrey Makarau; the activist is facing trial;
In addition to a fine and 10 days in jail, another protocol was drawn upon Uladzimir Nyapomnyashchykh;
Maxim Filipovich who has been hungerstriking for 9 days will be tried tomorrow;
Artsyom Shaporau was summoned;
Plainclothes policemen are constantly on the watch near the block of flats where activist Andrey Strizhak lives. He was tried in absentia and sentenced to 10 days in prison.
Belsat TV contributors Volha Davydava and Lyubou Luniova were detained in Minsk.The women were present at the meeting for journalists held by activist Nasta Dashkevich
whose husband was arrested a few hours earlier. Then they went to
Leninski district police department, where, according to preliminary
information, arrestees Zmitser Dashkevich and Artsyom Leuvchanka might
be kept. The journalists and Nasta Dashkevich were detained for ‘filming
in a security facility’, their smartfones were siezed. At the same
time, they did not film anything, the women state.
(UPD) After searching, the police released them.
On March 22, the Minsk police arrested former political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich and activist Artsyom Leuchanka who were assembling kitchen furniture in the flat of the famous Belarusian historian and writer Uladzimir Arlou.
(UPD) They are reportedly being kept in the KGB prison in Minsk.
“[Kurapaty defender] Syarhei Palcheuski took our car to carry necessary tools. They must have arrested him when he drove back. Perhaps, he decided not to get out of the car. Its side windows are broken, the car is opened, we don’t know where Syarhei is,” Zmitser Dashkevich’s wife Nasta says.
“I saw a crowd of unknown people; Zmitser Dashkevich
and Artsym Leuchanka were facing the wall. When I asked what had
happened, I was told that at my place bad workers had worked – they had
knocked the kitchen door, so they [police] came to detain them. I said I
had not called the police. And he stopped talking to me,” Arlou’s wife Valyantsina Aksak told Belsat.eu.
Pinsk-based activist Dzmitry Serhiyevich was sentenced to 5 days in jail for calling to participate in the ‘non-parasite’ rally on March, 11.
In Baranavichy, activists Ryhor Hryk and Mikalai Charnavus were tried for participating in protests.
In Hrodna, several civil activists were summoned to
Leninski district court over their taking to the streets during the
march of ‘non-parasites’ which was held in the city on March 15.
Pinsk-based freelance journalist and Belsat TV contributor Viktar Yarashuk was detained on the street at about 10:00: two plainclothes men ordered him to go to the police station.
After a while, the police drew up a protocol on the
journalist for ‘illegal production and distribution of media products’
and took him to court where Yarashuk was BYN 920 fined (appr. €450).
Activist Ales Mekh, a resident of Kobryn, was detained, he said on Facebook. Now his telephone is out of reach.
Natallya Papkova, one of the organizers of ‘non-parasite’ marches in Brest,
has been detained at the railway station. She was going to participate
in the rally on March 25 in Minsk. Human rights activists consider it a
preventive detention. At 14:00 the hearing of her case started in
Leninski district court. But it is still unknown why she was detained.
In Dobrush, Belsat TV contributor Kastus Zhukouski was detained. He was taken to a local police station for investigation, but released without drawing up a report.
Meanwhile, Homiel-based freelance journalist Andrey Tolchyn
was contacted by the local police and told he would be summoned. The
man is facing trial now. “But I have no idea what they will accuse me of
– I have not broken any laws,” he says.
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