Navapolatsk: Police Detain Bicyclists
14.09.2007.
Tags: actions, detentions, Kazulin, BSDP.
Source: Radio Racyja.
The local activists believe that it was the reaction of the police to the preliminary information about a cycle race For Freedom to Kazulin. Navapolatsk city police department states that the reason is the search for stolen bicycles. The policemen checked the bicycles, put down the dates and places of purchase and also asked where the detained bicyclers were going and why.
Among the detainees there were the public activists Yury Belski, Valery Shauchenka, Ihar Sukharukau and Anton Yasinovich.
The police also detained and searched the car of the chair of Polatsk branch of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) Albert Markau.
See also
17.11.2008 “Freedom to Aliaksandar Barazenka!” actions held in Minsk
11.11.2008 Minsk: ‘Young Front’ activist is detained for action near Leninski district court
10.11.2008 Polatsk: youth activists to stand trial for anti-communist action
10.11.2008 Minsk: detention at action in support of tried ‘Young Front’ activists
06.11.2008 Participants of action against foreign travel restrictions are beaten by police
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