Gintas Zegeris, a citizen of Lithuania, who carries on business in Belarus, has spent a week in the KGB remand prison in Minsk already. Vice-president of the Belarusian union of entrepreneurs Mikhail Shavelzon was arrested with him.
They were arrested as suspected in being mediators in giving a bribe.

An activist of the Young Front Zmitser Sakalou, the best graduate of Polatsk Lyceum, has been deprived a diploma with honours for his political convictions.
After the trial for a protest with a banner “Freedom to political prisoners!” in the central square of the city, Polatsk Lyceum was visited by KGB officers, the press-service of the Young Front informs.

Belarus has a real chance to join new programmes of Brussels for Eastern partners, but Lukashenka needs to release political prisoners and carry out free democratic elections for this.
Representatives of the United Democratic Forces of Belarus have said it today on a press conference, Radio Svaboda reports.

A technical mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights begins its visit to Minsk with a meeting in the Ministry of Foreign Affaires. The mission, headed by British Gerald Mitchell, is to estimate the conditions of work of the observation mission for the parliamentary elections in Belarus and take a decision about the form the OSCE will observe the elections if it will.