A Russian citizen and three Ukrainian nationals who arrived in the Belarus capital, Minsk, to attend a human rights seminar and were arrested on Saturday were released after interrogations, said an international human rights group.
"The arrested foreign national were interrogated about what they were doing in Belarus. Explanatory reports were written after the interrogations," the Committee on International Control over the Human Rights Situation in Belarus said in a statement.
Ukrainians Vadym Pyvovarov, Oleh Martynenko and Alla Blaha, Russian Olga Salomatova and Belarusians Oleg Gulak, Alexander Sosnov and Lyudmila Isakova were issued with an admonishment to the effect that they had been violating legislation on mass events but they refused to sign the document, the committee said.
The committee was set up in December last year by nongovernmental groups in member countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Its declared mission is to monitor the observation of fundamental human rights and the status of rights activists and rights organizations in Belarus.
