Yanukevich and Milinkevich decided to do nothing on Freedom Day

The organizing committee for Freedom Day celebration has decided not to hold a sanctioned meeting on Bangalore Square, and an unsanctioned demonstration from Yakub Kolas Square to Yanka Kupala park.

As BelaPAN was informed by the chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front Party Alyaksei Yanukevich, citizens would be offered to lay flowers to Yanka Kupala monument.

“The decision was adopted almost unanimously,” Yanukevich said. “We have decided not to carry out the event in the formats to which the authorities are prepared, and we offered the third variant. Other initiatives have been proposed as well, but finally we have chosen this one.”

He told that on March 22 the organizing committee is to appeal to the court against the decision of Minsk city executive committee, which prohibits holding a demonstration from Yakub Kolas Square to Yanka Kupala Park.

Minsk city executive committee denied holding Freedom Day on Yakub Kolas Square in Minsk on March 25. On Friday a session dedicated to Freedom Day in the capital of Belarus took place in Minsk city executive committee. As said by Dzemidzenka, the city authorities of Minsk have offered the organizers to gather on Bangalore Square.

The organizers of the rally, Alyaksei Yanukevich, Leu Marholin, Ales Makaeu, Iryna Hubskaya and Mikalai Dzyamidzenka, were asked to undersign the official warning about responsibility for holding an unsanctioned demonstration. “Young Front” leader Mikalai Dzemidzenka refused to give his signature and left Minsk city executive committee.