On October 13 in the evening, on the entry road to Hrodna from Minsk direction, policemen detained representatives of Hrodna regional branch of the United Civil party, Uladzimir Chervonenka, Yury Istomin, Artur Smyatanin. The UCP representatives were on their way home after funerals of Valyantsina Adamauna Hanchar, a mother of the abducted vice prime Minister of Belarus. Under a pretext of identity check, officers of the Road patrol service of the State car inspection stopped a car belonging to the chairman of Hrodna regional branch of the UCP Uladzimir Chervonenka, and demanded him to open the boot. 6 packs of the newspaper “Narodnaya Volya” were found there.
Officers of the Road patrol service told about that over a walkie-talkie. Some time later policemen of the interior affairs department of Hrodna region arrived. They offered the UCP activist to follow them to a police department.
In the police department Istomin, Chervonenka and Smyatanin were to give written explanation to police officers.
“Policemen were not at all interested by the fact that an agreement between the UCP and the “Narodnaya Volya” on dissemination of the newspaper exists, and that there was a stamp “For advertising purposes” on every copy of the newspaper,” Chervonenka said.
He also informed that Hrodna police department officers had decided to arrest the newspaper pressrun until the circumstances of the case clarified.
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