21 August 2001
Police search oppositionist's apartment over anti-Lukashenko newspapers

 Yelena Yushkevich, a member of the opposition Belarusian Social Democratic Party, had her apartment in Baranovichi searched by police on August 14.
According to Ms. Yushkevich, the police showed no warrant, explaining only that her underage children had been caught passing out a Russian newspaper called President and that it was an offense. Two dozen copies of the newspaper, containing sharp criticism of the Belarusian incumbent
ruler, Aleksandr Lukashenko, were seized as a result of the search.
Ms. Yushkevich says a man who claimed to be a Committee for State Security (KGB) officer has phoned her to advise her to keep quiet about what happened. However, the woman considers the search illegal and promises to report it to the local public prosecutor.