Last night parents of the politician and his friends tried to find out where the political prisoner Pavel Sevyarynets was taken by officers of Navapolatsk special settlement. As we have informed, yesterday during a working shift an operational vehicle appeared in the wood division near the village of Alyoshcha where the politician was working, and after that it was impossible to contact him.
Lithuanian Conservators believe that demand to Alyaksandr Lukashenka concerning changed in Belarus are not firm enough. Right-wing Lithuanian politicians thinks that pressure on Lukashenka should be more effective. The demands to carry out democratic reforms should have certain effect on the regime, and not for the Belarusians wanting changes form the regime. It has been stated by a member of Lithuanian Sojm, a member of Conservatiev party Emmanuilas Zingeris during his official visit at the US Congress, the Polish Radio informs.
The agreement on sugar deliveries to the Russian market will be concluded only after signing the general intergovernmental agreement on trade and economic cooperation between Russia and Belarus .The talks and the work on the document continues, chairman of the “Belgospischeprom” concern Ivan Danchanka reported to the BelTA correspondent.
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Rene van der Linden has condemned the recent arrests of opposition leaders in Belarus, Radio Svaboda informs. Speaking in Paris, the PACE chairman has underlined that arrests are even more intolerable after during his visit to Minsk this year the authorities expressed a readiness to take a more constructive stand in relations with Europe, and to begin changes in the political climate of the county. It’s a step backwards, which could get in the way of reconsideration of the today’s relations with the PACE, van der Linden said.
Entrepreneurs from all regions of Belarus are going to come to the Kalinousky (Kastrichnitskay) Square 25 March at 12 o’clock. This was announced by leader of the strike committee of the entrepreneurs Valeri Levaneusky to the press-center of the Charter’97.
A group of Belarusian citizens permanently living in Russia ask the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the General Prosecutor’s Office to check information about threats launched against them by the Belarusian special services, told one of the initiators of the address, journalist Pavel Sharamet.
Seminar “Survey of Opportunities of Belarus in the frame of the European strategy of neighborhood” was held at the National Library in Minsk yesterday under the leadership of deputy chairman of the “house of representatives” Syargei Zabalotsets and head of the working group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE in Belarus Uta Zapf. Certain representatives of the Belarusian civil society participated in the seminar; others refused and critically estimated the event itself. Participant of the seminar Zhana Litvina, head of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, and Andrey Sannikov, the Charter’97 coordinator, who considers that the seminar “ promotes the repressive regime and does not serve anyway the democratization of Belarus” presented their arguments in the Radio Svaboda broadcast “Expertise of Freedom”.
On March 16 from 12 noon to 6 p.m. at the border-crossing Kuznitsa Belastotska activists of the “Union for Democracy Support in Belarus” will hand out informational materials and documentary films about the situation in Belarus to Belarusians returning home. A tent with an exhibition of photos of protest rallies in Belarus will be set up at the border as well.
A film screening event to mark the mass rallies after the rigged Belarusian presidential elections last March is to take place at Amnesty International’s UK offices on Tuesday 3 April. “A Lesson of Belarusian” by the Polish film director, Miroslaw Dembinski will be screened. The Charter’97 press-center was informed that a well-known British playwright Tom Stoppard will take part in the event.
The Homyel Regional Prosecutor`s Office has replied to an appeal from local opposition leaders to probe alleged attempts by the local office of the Committee for State Security (KGB) to pressure opposition youths to work for them.
Today the Day of Solidarity with Belarus is traditionally celebrated in Belarus and all over the world. Actions are to be held in Europe and the USA with a call to the authorities of Belarus to release Belarusian political prisoners and start democratic reforms.
Cultural functions dedicated to the anniversary of the March events in the center of Minsk have started in Brussels. In the framework of the events an exhibition of Minsk photographers who made pictures on October Square, screening of “The Square” by Yury Khashchavatski. Yesterday plays of the Free Theatre headed by Nikolai Khalezin were demonstrated in Grand Prix Bar.
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