Minsk Police Detain UCP Activists

On 5 August workers of Leninski borough police department of Minsk detained the activists of United Civil Party Artsiom Dareuski and Aliaksandr Siarhiyenka. In their bags the policemen found newspapers Freedom to Belarus, which the guys handed out. The policemen composed violation reports, confiscated 400 copies of the newspape, they recorded the detainees on video and took their fingerprints. The detention lasted for about three hours, then Dareuski and Siarhiyenka were let go.