The leader of e All-National Strike Committee, member of the “Free Belarus” Valery Levaneuski, who serves the two-year sentence in the colony in Ivatsevichy, allegedly for libel against Lukashenka, has sacrificed his two-month salary to Bytsenskaya and Yurgalinskaya orphan’s houses, situated in the neighbourhood of the colony. The press center of the Charter’97 was told about that by the son of the political prisoner, Uladzimir Levaneuski.

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The deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the 13th convocation, Andrei Klimau, has left to the place where he is to serve the term. He is sentenced to two years of personal restraint, or “correctional labour”, and is to live in the settlement of Krupki, Minks region. The politician has been sentenced to a year and a half of personal restraint for organizing a protest rally on March 25 this year, demanding Lukashenka’s resignation. “I will use the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character in the film “The Terminator” I’ll be back!” It will be the last year for Alyaksandr Lukashenka in power. And let him pray for God that the year 2006 would finish trouble-free. That he would be treated in a civilized way after his vacation of a position. We shall provide a good prison cell for him, and leave him alive,” said the political prisoner to the Charter’97 press center before departure.

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The manes of Yury Zakharanka, Viktar Hanchar, Anatol Krasouski and Dzitry Zavadski are recalled today in D?sseldorf. At 8 p.m. local time an international rally “Abducted people - a crime against mankind” starts there.

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The 10th OSCE conference “OSCE’s Human Dimension” started in Warsaw. On September 21 the participants discussed the situation with the freedom of speech in the OSCE countries, including Belarus.

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Belarus is a European country, and people of Belarus deserve to live in democratic and flourishing state. Unfortunately, Alyaksandr Lukashenka is more and more geared to the Soviet Union of the period of stagnation, though we all know perfectly what had happened to the Soviet Union. The only way forward is democratization and reforms. First of all, Belarus needs strong civil societyю It’s the first step on the way to creation of a democratic and flourishing state,” told Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antanas Valionis in an exclusive interview to Roman Yakovlevskiy (www.w-europe.org).

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Some self-employed entrepreneurs, owners of taxi cars (“marshrootkas”), will join the hunger strike started on September 20 by their colleagues in Brest. Those Brest entrepreneurs who have been already demanded by tax inspection to pay fee for commercial usage of the cars imported to Belarus, are to take part in the protest, Radio Svaboda informs.

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Court hearing, during which the case of New Life church.s administrator Vasily Yurevich was heard has been rescheduled for September 23, 2005. This decision was made by the judge due to the absence of eye-witnesses on the behalf of police officers.

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Belarus` Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov assured his Iranian counterpart, Manuchehr Motaki, on September 19 that Belarus fully recognizes and supports Iran`s right to develop and use peaceful nuclear technologies.

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Belarus is interested in the quickest end of what it calls the OSCE`s double standards, primarily in the elections and human rights spheres.

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A judge of the Zhodzina city court [Minsk Region] on Monday [19 September] dismissed an appeal by the parents of a 17-year-old opposition activist who sought to have their son readmitted to a local technical school.

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Mobilization resources continue arriving at military units in accordance with the plan for holding a training session with designated personnel that started on 19 September. About 500 reservists will be called up for training.

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The prosecutor’s office of Ivatsevichy region sent an answer to appeals of the family of Valery Levanuski, the head of the all-national strike committee of vendors, member of the “Free Belarus” who serves the sentence in the colony for public insult of Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The prosecutor of Ivatsevichy region, T.Stasevich, notes that correspondence of prisoners is subject to censorship, and that “letters of prisoners and sent to prisoners, that have a cynical character, aimed at inflicting damage” to state institutions and individual citizens, are destroyed.

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