day of solidarity | artur finkevich | europe | belarus

[Sidwak84]

Fuck Lukashenko!!!

[Gyvulevichius]

Fuck off Lukashenko!!!The bastard of his own nation!!!

[joooshka]

16th January 2009

Riot policemen in mufti detained the leader of Young Belarus movement Artur Finkevich after a rally held by activists of the Young Belarus in Minsk, dedicated to the Solidarity Day.

[joooshka]

19th December 2008 | Artur Finkevich beaten up by unknown people.

Finkevich was attacked in Parnikovaya Street, pulled a winter cap over his head and dragged into a minibus. There he was beaten up by supposedly eight people. After 3 hours he was set free, more than 20 km out of Minsk. He could stopp a van later and call a taxi to Minsk, where he filed a complaint at the Pershamaiski district militia department. Artur said, he feared to be killed. He was stolen documents, his purse and keys.

[joooshka]

16th December 2008 | Activists of Young Belarus movement including Artur Finkevich detained in a campus of the Belarusian State University.

The activists were handing out leaflets with information about the disappeared Belarusian politicians. They were detained by people in plain clothes. After the detention the head of the police of Maskouski district of Minsk arrived in a car. He ordered to take the young people in the police department. They were set free later. No reports were drawn up.

[joooshka]

10th December 2008 | More than 20 people, among them Artur Finkevich, were detained in Minsk for street actions on Human Rights Day.

Belarusian activists, dressed in makeshift prison clothing, came to the KGB building and went round a circle with their hands behind their heads.

Dozen of militiamen drove up and forced the oppositionists behind the KGB building, where they were arrested. After two hours in the Tsentralny district militia department they were set free. No reports were drawn up.

[joooshka]

24th November 2008 | Artur Finkevich detained near the detention facility in Valadarski Street in Minsk

Activists gathered near the Minsk detention facility with portraits of Alyaksandr Barazenka demanding to release the prisoner of conscience. 13 oppositionists were violently detained by militiamen in uniform and in mufti, guarded to the Maskouski district militia department of Minsk, fingerprinted and then released. No reports were drawn up.

[joooshka]

16th October 2008 | Artur Finkevich arrested by riot militia in Minsk.

The opposition activist was detained at 6.30 pm near October Square. A militia car drove up to him, then riot militiamen pushed him inside a car and drove away, first moving around the city aimlessly, then to the Moscow highway, where the police unit left him alone. During the detention his mobile phone was broken. Finkevich went back to the centre of the city by taxi.

[joooshka]

7th August 2008 | Riot policemen, policemen and KGB officers broke into the head office of the Young Front in Minsk. The leaders of the organization Zmitser Dashkevich and Arthur Finkevich, as well as four activists of the Young Front and the activist of the civil campaign European Belarus, Pavel Kuryianovich, were arrested.

[joooshka]

May 2008 | Artur Finkevic sentenced in absentia to 7 days of arrest for participation in the 1st May rally dedicated to the anniversary of the European Union enlargement

[joooshka]

25th March 2008 | Artur Finkevich arrested and detained for 15 days for participation in the Freedom Day Demonstration in Minsk

[joooshka]

Artur Finkevich was released on February 5th, 2008. This video should remain as an public document as long as there are political prisoners in Belarus. PS. until today, the EU commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner never responded to any of many emails to here office on behalf of Artur Finkevich . - the autor -

[BartonFunk]

Terrible to think this is still going on in Europe in 2008. Excellent video Joooshka. Email sent.