Arrests for symbols of European Union continue in Belarus

• 9.03.2009, 16:16

Arrests of Belarusian oppositionists for leaflets with depiction of symbols of the European Unio continue.

An activist of the civil campaign “European Belarus” Alyaksaei Masetych was detained on March 7 in the evening in the town of Byaroza Brest region.

The young oppositionist was pasting leaflets with the flag of the European Union. Alyaksei was held in the police department of Byaroza for about 3 hours and then released.

On March 6 Maxim Vinyarski, Aleh Ladutska, Marta Kruglova, Iryna Pyatrova, Vlad Ihnatovich were detained in Minsk. They were pasting stickers of the “European Belarus” along Independence Avenue. The young people were detained by riot policemen and taken to a bus where they were searched and then released.

As we have informed, crackdown for distribution of leaflets and stickers with symbols of the European Union are taking place in Belarus all the time. The flags of the European Union seized from young people are destroyed (burnt down) by policemen.