Salihorsk young people continued dissemination of information about the hunger strike announced by a citizen of the city Valer Baranouski. However, policemen are ill-disposed towards informational leaflets. As a result of that an activist of the Young Front Ivan Shyla has been detained today.
On August 30 in Minsk riot policemen detained seven underage youth activists. Young people held an anti-fascist picket in Victory Square. They stood near the Eternal Flame with an official red and green flag and a streamer “Down with Fascist regime!”
Officers of the city department of internal affairs of Babrujsk have deleted all pictures made by reporters of “Radio Svaboda” and a newspaper “Bobrujskiy Kuryer” at the protest of a local city council Ales Chyhir. Part of the photographs was deleted from the camera of a news photographer of the Nasha Niva Yuliya Darashkevich.
This week an exhibition of photos that had won in the contest BZ WBK Press Photo has started in Poznan. It is remarkable that a picture made during March events in Minsk has taken the third position in the category “Events”.
During the detention of a deputy of Babrujsk city council Ales Chyhir his arm was injured by policemen, the Charter’97 press center was informed by a photo reporter of the newspaper “Nasha Niva” Yuliya Darashkevich. She and other journalists have been detained during the protest in Babrujsk today. As said by the reporter, Chyhir was detained in an extremely harsh way, and his arm was possibly dislocated.
“We are greatly concerned over the death of our Lithuanian colleague Vytautas Pociunas. Now Lithuanian and Belarusian authorities are carrying out investigation of this accident, and we are waiting for the results of the investigation impatiently,” told the charge d’affaires of the US embassy in Belarus Jonathan Moore at a press conference held in the US embassy in Minsk today.
A new US Ambassador Karen Stewart is to arrive to Minsk on September 18, as told by Charge d’Affaires Jonathan Moore at a press conference in Minsk today.
A deputy of local city council Ales Chyhir and 8 journalists have been detained in the center of Babrujsk. On August 31 Ales Chyhir held a protest in the central square of Babrujsk. He symbolically chained himself to a lamppost, protesting against violations of constitutional norms, in particular, of his right to labour.
Major actions for checking the details of the death of a Lithuanian diplomat Vytautas Pociunas, who died on August 23 in Brest, have been completed. As the BELTA was informed by a press service of the republican prosecutor’s office, investigating authorities are still to complete several criminalictic examinations.
The law on “Amendments to some laws of the Republic of Belarus on questions of elections and referendum” is being prepared for consideration in the first hearing of the “Chamber of representatives” of the “national assembly” of Belarus. The Electoral Code, the laws “On President of the Republic of Belarus” and “On public events in the Republic of Belarus” are to be amended at the first plenary session in autumn, which is to start in the beginning of October.
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