"Babruisk Courier" journalist Jauhen Vaskovich detained for 10 days
A 19-year-old journalist of the newspaper "Babruisk Courier", a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists Jauhen Vaskovich was detained for 10 days in Mahileu on January 17. A search was conduced at the address where he is domiciled in Babruisk on the same day, informs the newspaper's web-site.
Vaskovich was in Mahileu at the examination session and lived in a rented apartment there. He was supposed to take an exam on Janury 17. The representatives of the law-enforcement authorities called his mother on her cell phone in the afternoon and informed that her son had been detained for 10 days for an act of hooliganism, committed on December 16 in Babruisk.
According to the newspaper's information, Vaskovich observed the presidential election at several electoral precincts in Babruisk in that time period.
Vaskovich was in Mahileu at the examination session and lived in a rented apartment there. He was supposed to take an exam on Janury 17. The representatives of the law-enforcement authorities called his mother on her cell phone in the afternoon and informed that her son had been detained for 10 days for an act of hooliganism, committed on December 16 in Babruisk.
According to the newspaper's information, Vaskovich observed the presidential election at several electoral precincts in Babruisk in that time period.
Vaskovich, who is also an activist of the steering committee for creating a party "Belarusian Christian Democracy" was detained in Minsk at the Independence Square on December 19 as a participant of the protest action, and sentenced to 12 days of detention.
He was summoned for a conversation to the Mahileu regional KGB administration on January 11. They "suggested to sign a document promising not to take part in such actions anymore". "He signed this document only after they had changed the last sentence so that it said that he will take part in peaceful actions further on as it is his civil position and a constitutional right. Maybe this became the reason for the second detention of the journalist and civil activist. As a revenge", — writes "Babruisk Courier".
He was summoned for a conversation to the Mahileu regional KGB administration on January 11. They "suggested to sign a document promising not to take part in such actions anymore". "He signed this document only after they had changed the last sentence so that it said that he will take part in peaceful actions further on as it is his civil position and a constitutional right. Maybe this became the reason for the second detention of the journalist and civil activist. As a revenge", — writes "Babruisk Courier".
