Activists from Belarusian regions not allowed to Social March

• 4.11.2007, 11:26

Chairperson of the Grodna city United Civil Party office Yury Istomin and 10 people going to Minsk to join the Social March were detained. The road police stopped their minivan 10 km from Grodna claiming the vehicle had been stolen. The detained activists were taken to the town of Skidal to study the incident.

The minivan with supporters of Aliaksandar Kazulin and liquidators of Charnobyl tragedy consequences was detained by the road police when driving out from Grodna.

Party of Communists Belarusian couldn’t leave Vitsiebsk: the car driven by head of Vitsiebsk municipal organization of the party Mikalai Selivashka was stopped by the police. Now all the passengers are kept in regional road police station.

The police said they were to verify the minivan’s owner, head of the municipal organization of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party “Gramada” Volga Shpakouskaya and head of the regional organization Anatol Gneuka told Radio Svaboda. The police had no claims against the passengers, and the party members have to seek other ways to get to Minsk.

The minivan with supporters of Aliaksandar Kazulin and liquidators of Charnobyl tragedy consequences was detained by the road police when driving out from Grodna.

The press-center Charter97 found out that democrats are not allowed to leave Barysau. Police cars are parked near the houses of democratic activists Zmitser Barodka, Anatol Askierka, Maryna Statkievich.