Yury Liavonau (born on 23 September 1961), entrepreneur and civic activist, is currently held in prison as political hostages of the autocratic machinery. Yury Liavonau was sentenced to 3 years and 5 months together with Autohovich of restricted liberty for the alleged irregular tax payments.

Mikola Autukhovich (born on 7 January 1963)entepreneur and civic activist, is currently held in prison as political hostage of the autocratic machinery. Mikola Autukhovich was sentenced to 3 and a half years for the alleged irregular tax payments.

Born on 20 July 1981. The head of Malady Front (Young Front) youth organization since 2005. Was an active participant in spring 2006 street protests. Arrested in Minsk on 15 September 2006 and has since been held in jail. The leader “Malady Front” was accused of violation of “political” article of the Criminal Code - Article 193 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (“Activity on behalf of an unregistered organization”). The Article was added to the Criminal Code in December 2005 as part of a series of amendments that introduced penalties for civil society organizations and other outspoken critics of the government, in the lead-up to the presidential elections in March 2006. Zmitser Dashkevich was sentenced on 1 November 2006 to 1.5 years' imprisonment for 'organizing or participating in an activity of an unregistered non-governmental organization'.

Today the political prisoner and entrepreneur Yury Lyavonau has been released. He told his family about his discharge over the phone when he left the colony in Baranavichy. At the moment friends are on the way to Baranavichy in order to meet the former prisoner and take him home.

As we have informed, previously the measure of restraint for Yury Lyavonau, like for his business partner Mikalay Autukhovich, was changed from imprisonment to corrective labour. Mikalay Autukhovich was suddenly released last Friday.

Zmiter Dashkevich has been from the Shklou colony today. According to Zmiter, the news about his release came as a surprise for him. Allegedly, an order came out that a term of punishment (1.5 year) was reduced to 1 year, thus Zmiter served 4 months more than he was due, nn.by reports. It should be reminded that Zmiter Dashkevich was sentenced to 1.5 year of prison for participation in the unregistered organisation in November, 2006 (he was in a remand jail since September, 2006).

A trade union committee of Francis Skaryna Homel State University has decided to expel a student Zmitser Zhaleznichenka from the university. The decisive word is to be said by the dean.
“At the today’s meeting I tried to persuade those present that I hadn’t done the things I am accused of,” Zhaleznichnka said. “And I was accused with use of foul language in a public place. When I went down to the underground walkway, a policeman who was driving by in a car heard me “swearing”.

Ruslan Aniskevich, a judge of the Minsk City Court, on Friday sentenced Alyaksandr Zdvizhkow, deputy editor of the now-closed newspaper Zhoda, to three years in a medium-security prison over the reprinting of controversial Danish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.

Officers of the local KGB department searched an apartment of member of the Belarusian Association of Belarus Syargei Padsasonny in Gomel on 12 January.

Katsyaryna Salauyova, member of the Young Front from Polatsk, accused of drawing political graffiti on the building of the Polatsk city executive committee two months ago, was sentenced to fined of 30 basic units.

41 persons were detained during and after entrepreneurs' action in Minsk and other cities.