Opposition Activists Detained in Brest Region :: Charter'97 :: News

Democratic activists Andrei Sharenda and Dzyanis Turchanyak were detained in Brest. The press-service of the United Civil party has been informed about that by the candidate for deputy of Brest regional and district councils Stsyapan Navaselchan. The detainees have been taken to the police department of Maskouski district on Brest. It is known that Dzyanis Turchanyak was detained on suspicion in a carjack.

Stsyapan Navaselchan does not rule out that the authorities repeat the scenario of the last presidential election campaign. As we have informed, in spring - 2006 hundreds of democratic activists, supporting candidate Alyaksandr Milinkevich, were detained all over Belarus. in spring-2006 Stsyapan Navaselchan was arrested for 20 days.

A member of the United Civil Party Uladzimir Radzivonchyk was detained in Pruzhany. He managed to tell on the phone that three persons detained him, supposedly, police officers. Radzivonchyk was taken to a police department. He is charged with hooliganism against a person completely unknown for the politician. At the moment the UCP member is prohibited to answer the phone.

Uladzimir Radzivonchyk was collecting signatures as a candidate for deputy, however in an election commission he was denied registration on far-fetched reasons. One cannot exclude that local authorities fear the activist’s participation in election observation, that is why they tried to stop him.