Belarusian Fighters for Justice Detained at the Boarder 18:47, 16/09/2005
The OSCE conference on issues of domestic independent election watch is being held in Warsaw these days. Among those invited to the conference were also the activists of the Belarusian Civil Initiative “Partnerstva” who conducted independent monitoring of the elections in 2004. On their way to Warsaw, however, they were detained by the Belarusian customs officers who refused to allow them to cross the boarder. They also took away published materials belonging to the activists of “Partnerstva” including the book “Referendum and Elections to the “House of Representatives” in 2004” published by the Initiative “Partnerstva” which describes numerous law violations during elections.
In this case there was no legal ground for detainment or material confiscation. And the customs officers refused to explain the actual reason for confiscation.
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