Detention in Belarus

Uladzimir Kumets has been jailed for 20 days.

The users of social networking sites report detentions of civil activists ahead of the world ice hockey championship in Minsk.

Head of the public order department of the Belarusian MIA Ivan Kubrakou announced it at a press conference on May 6.

Opposition activists get locked for duration of world ice hockey championship in Minsk.

They were arrested on May 4 and 5.

Alyaksandr Marozau has been accused of using bad language and arrested for it.

The co-leader of the youth organization registered in the Czech Republic left his friends’ place on the evening of May 4 and did not reach home.

The police in Minsk on May 5 detained Mikola Dzemidzenka from the Czech Republic-based youth pressure group Young Front.

Young Front leader Zmitser Dashkevich is sentenced by Minsk's Pershamaiski District Court ahead of opposition-staged Chernobyl March on April 26.