On 24 August Salihorsk Town Court fined two Young Front activists Andrus Tychyna and Ryhor Astapenia BYR 700,000 each for arranging a street drawing contest marking the 20th anniversary of the proclamation of Belarus’ independence back on 27 July, European Radio for Belarus reports, quoting a Young Front activist Aliaksei Valabuyeu.

The abolition of capital punishment or declaration of a moratorium on it is not the only issue, on solving of which depends the returning to Belarus the special guest status in PACE.

The Head of Foreign Ministry confirmed that he had new information about the detained, but he said, he would not tell it.

A loud statement was made by a human rights activist Nijole Sadunaite on August 23 during a meeting in Vilnius.

Activists of pro-presidential Belarusian Republican Union of Youth (BRSM) were called ‘lukashists’ in a memorandum report.

On August 24 in the morning near the building of New Life church many policemen and troops gathered.

Russian NTV channel, which has become a mouthpiece; of the position of Russian authorities towards Belarus recently, has televised an interview with Alyaksandr Kazulin.