Today in Hrodna an activist of the Union of Poles in Belarus, a musician Stanislaw Poczobutt has been detained during a solidarity rally at Savetskaya Square. The Charter’97 press-center has been informed about that by his brother Andrzej Poczobutt.
Today near the railway station an attempt to detain young activists Krystsina Shatsikava, Zmitser Fedaruk, Syarhei Humilin, Nadzeja Klimovich and Volha Zhuraulyova has taken place. Passports have been seized from the activists. Policemen tried to take them to a police department for identification.
Today Belarusians living in London had a mass for intention of the abducted politicians and a journalist, their families and all those who are struggling and suffering for free and democratic Belarus.
Today solidarity actions with Belarus are to be held in several cities of Poland: in Warsaw, Lublin, Krakow, Wroclaw, Bialystok. The Charter’97 press-center has been informed about that by one of the organizers of the rallies, a chairman of the “Union for Democracy Support in Belarus” Anton Tsyalezhnikau. Meetings, marches and pickets are to be held in central squares of the cities.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka is positive that energy and resources saving is a number one issue at the local level. “We will have as much oil and gas as needed. But would you be able to pay? Do not think about natural gas; use your own resources, urge people to use resources efficiently. Those who have money should economize as well. There is no superfluous money. Shift everything possible to own r energy sources. If we would not spare in agriculture, there would be loss-making production,” he underlined when considering cadre questions. Today A. Lukashenka agreed on appointment of a number of chairmen of regional executive committees.
In the prosecutor’s office working groups for legislative execution have been created for the period of elections to local Soviets of deputies. As the BELTA reporter has been informed by the prosecutor’s office of Belarus, the “most important task” for the bodies of prosecutor’s office for the period of local elections would be “ensuring the constitutional right of Belarusian citizens to freedom of the will, and for proper execution of the current law by all participants of the election process”.
Today Vyachaslau Dashkevich hasn’t been allowed to meet with his son, the leader of the “Young Front” Zmitser Dashkevich. As Radio Svaboda informs, the father of the activist has been told in Minsk remand prison that all places for meetings are occupied today, and advised to come on November 17.
The court of Tsentralny district of Minsk refused to sustain a claim of the Party of Communists of Belarus (PCB) on defence of business reputation, brought up against the Party of Communists of Belarus and the newspaper of the party, “Kommunist Belarusi. My i vremya”. This decision has been passed on November 16.
The Czech Foreign Ministry wants to continue subsidising projects in support of democracy in Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iraq, Cuba, Moldova, Burma, Serbia and Ukraine next year.
In the village of Blogn in Puhovichi region the BSDP(NG) organizing committee has held a meeting. There were summed up the participation results of Narodnaya Gramada in the campaign “Local elections”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed himself in favour of intensification pf economic integration with Belarus. “We advocate real intensification of mutually beneficial economic integration, approach to the questions of the union state,” V. Putin said at the ceremony of presentation of credentials by foreign ambassadors in the Kremlin, where the Belarusian ambassador to Moscow Vasily Dauhalyou was present as well.
Amnesty International is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Zmitser Dashkevich, a leader of the youth opposition movement Ìàëàäû ôðîíò (Young Front), whom the organization believes to be a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned solely for the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of assembly, association and expression.
Justice Ministry has started to check the list of members of the Party of Communists of Belarus (PCB), which had been provided by the decision of the Supreme Court. This list includes a thousand and a half members.
Last week the head of the Ideology Department of Hrodna Region Executive Committee U.Amelka was given the honorary title “Excellent Belarusian Publisher”. Journalists from state and independent mass media of Hrodna Region are trying to find the reason for it.
November 16 is the Day of solidarity with fighting Belarus. In our country and in many countries of the world people are going to gather in squares with lit candles in remembrance of the abducted leaders of opposition and journalists in Belarus, as a sigh of solidarity with political prisoners, with all those who fight for freedom and democracy in Belarus.
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