Police tried to disband a new rally of solidarity of young people who demanded release of the political prisoner Alyaksandr Barazenka held near the remand prison in Valadarski Street in Minsk.
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Repression still rules despite thaw towards EU
When Pavel Kuryanovich first attended political demonstrations three years ago he was still at school. Now aged 19, he is an opposition veteran with four prison sentences to his name.
Political prisoner Barazenka went on hunger strike in detention facility
Activist of the civil campaign “European Belarus” Alyaksandr Barazenka has gone on a protest hunger strike in the Minsk detention facility and is going to continue it unless he is released. He wrote this in a letter to his friends. The letter was written on November 10, so the strike may be lasting for a week.
Young activists reminded participants of Minsk Forum about political prisoners
Young oppositionists have come to the XI Minsk Forum with portraits of Belarusian prisoners of conscience.
Andrei Sannikov: “Games of Europeans are not doing any good to democracy in Belarus”
A month ago the Council of the European Union suspended visa sanctions against Alyaksandr Lukashenka and a number of his officials.
Lenin still alive in Belarus
Participants of the protest action on November 7 had trials in the Leninski district court of Minsk today. On the day, when the Belarusian authorities officially celebrated the anniversary of the “great October”, Young Front activists came to the KGB building with a banner “Communism Must be Tried by Tribunal!”
Obama wins historic US election
“It’s been a long time coming, but tonight… change has come to America,” the president-elect told a jubilant crowd at a park in Chicago.
Belarus Asks IMF for Credit Line as Economy Falters
Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) — Belarus requested aid from the International Monetary Fund, joining Iceland, Pakistan, Hungary and the Ukraine in asking for assistance in weathering the global financial crisis.
Lord Bell: “country has a perfectly nice atmosphere about it. People are relaxed.”
British PR-specialist Timothy Bell said in an interview to Russian media the Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka is “a very friendly person”, and “most Belarusians are glad and happy”. According to the lord, he learnt this through speaking with common Belarusians “in hotels, bars, and restaurants”.
Lukashenko’s PR man sheds light on EU campaign
– With EU states nearing agreement on relaxing Belarus sanctions on Monday (13 October), the man that Minsk hired to help do the job – British public relations magnate Lord Timothy Bell – tells EUobserver about unmaking the image of a dictator.