Though arrested in Minsk US citizen Emanuel Zeltser’s health state is disastrous and accusations presented to him are inconsistent, he is still in jail.

As Zeltser’s lawyer Zmitser Harachka said to BelaPAN, his client wasn’t allowed to take the medicines, which are allegedly psychotropic substances illegally imported to Belarus, he is also denied of a ventilator, despite his poor tolerance of heat, besides, the arrested was shown analysis results, which are “very bad,” according to Mr Zeltser.

A civil society group in the Horki district, Mahilyow region, has collected more than 2,500 signatures to a petition against the planned construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus, journalist Eduard Brokaraw, spokesman for the group, told BelaPAN.

Youth activist of the campaign “European Belarus” Alyaksandr Atroshchankau is arrested for 15 days. He had trial in the Tsentralny district court of Minsk, where he was guarded to at 2.00 pm from the KGB Minsk and Minsk region directorate. He has already been guarded to a special detention center on Akrestin Street for serving punishment.

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.

Sayrhei Parsyukevich has found himself without money and food after he was transferred to the Shklou penal colony.
According to Syarhei Parsyukevich’s wife, Vitsebsk entrepreneurs have recently attended the Shklou colony to give him a food parcel. But the administration of the colony refused to pass the parcel for Parsyukevich, Radio Svaboda reports.

A trial over a young activist is to start today in Lahojsk. He was detained for using national symbols during “the Beatles Festival”.
On June 9 at 3 p.m. the trial over Vital Izotau is to start in the court of Lahojsk. Besides, the guy faces criminal responsibility. His case was forwarded to the prosecutor’s office. He is charged with beating a policeman. Other details are unavailable so far.

A demonstration in support of Ivan Shyla, a Young Front member, will be held in New York on June 29. On June 4 Ivan Shyla was illegally expelled from Salihorsk secondary school No. 4 the day before his last exam.
The Belarusian Youth movement of the US is the initiator of the rally which is to be held in front of the UN headquarters. In their address to expat Belarusians and “friends of Belarus in the world”, the organisation appeals to “condemn the illegal decision and to influence this situation by all available means,” the BelaPAN informs.

Belarusian TV continues the cold war, declared by Lukashenka’s regime on the United States of America.
The first channel of the Belarusian TV advertises series Network, which is to begin on 9 June. The authors of the film promise to say about “US plan on Belarus’s occupation and ways of gaining by foreign foundations and public organizations,” Euroradio reports.
It is clear, that shooting a fantastic film is far more safely than speaking about real plans of Russia on turning Belarus into “Northwest Province.”

Anzelika Borys, head of the unrecognized by the authorities Union of Poles, has been sentenced to a fine of Br 1,400,000 doe organizing a concert of a well-known Polish band “Lombard” in Hrodna.
Under the police report, Anzelika Borys is charged with organizing an unsanctioned event. A concert of the well-known Polish band “Lombard” took place in Hrodna on May 2, Radio Racyja informs.

A data base of restricted to travel abroad persons of the border service contains about 260 thousand people.
Vadzim Zaitzau, first deputy head of the State Border Committee (SBC), said it on 5 June at the meeting with Russian journalists in the frames of a press-tour around Belarus.

Today heads of regional branches of the United Civil party and the Belarusian Social Democratic Hramada Yury Istomin and Viktar Sazonau have been fined in Hrodna.
Istomin is to pay 50 basic units (1 mln 759 thousand rubles, or $821), Sazonau – 30 basic units (1 mln 50 thousand rubles, or $469). They stood trial for “active participation in an unsanctioned rally”, Radio Svaboda informs.

President of the Belarusian National Republic Ivonka Survilla can’t visit the Motherland due to the policy of Lukashenka’s regime.
“Nasha Niva” newspaper managed to meet with Ms Survilla in Warsaw during the conference “Generational Change? Or Belarusian Differences in Aims, Strategy and Values.”

The head of Educational department of Frunzenski district of Minsk prohibited an activist of the Young Front Alena Makarevich to sit for a Belarusian language exam.
“I think it has been done in order to prevent me from entering the university,” Alena Makarevich said to Radio Svaboda.

The educational department of Salihorsk executive committee has reached an illegal decision to expel one of the leaders of the Young Front, Ivan Shyla, from the secondary school No.4 of Salihorsk.

Debates on the theme of political situation in European are held in the European Parliament today and tomorrow. The situation in Belarus is also to be discussed in Brussels. In particular, an issue of political prisoners. The Belarusian authorities refused to released prisoners of conscience Alyaksandr Kazulin, Syarhei Parsyukevich and Andrei Kim.
Leaders of opposition political parties Anatol Lyabedzka, Vintsuk Vyachorka and Syarhei Kalyakin are invited to the session of the European Parliament in Brussels. Leader of the “For Freedom” movement Alyaksandr Milinkevich was to come to Brussels, too, but deputy head of the movement Alyaksei Kravets came instead of him.

On 3 June 1988 the Belarusians learnt the truth about Stalin’s repressions in the country through an article “Kurapaty –the Road of Death” in “Litaratura i Mastatstva” newspaper, written by Zyanon Paznyak and Yauhen Shmyhalou. This article also provoked one of the first mass protest action in the USSR – people came to Kurapaty on Dzyady (the day of commemoration of the dead).

Activists of the civil campaign “European Belarus” plan to collect a million of signatures of the country citizens in favour of Belarus’ accession to the EU in order to submit them to the European parliament and the Council of Europe.

It is planned to carry out the most active collection of signatures simultaneously with election campaigning. However, even today several dozens thousands of citizens have expressed themselves in favour of the idea of Belarus joining the EU, said one of the participants of the campaign Zmitser Barodnka.

A question of principal meaning is that “as big EU flag as possible can be set up on a flagstick,” Ferenc Kontra, head of the diplomatic mission said ahead of the opening of the Hungarian embassy in Belarus.

On 3 June Hungarian embassy begins its work in our country Minsk on the address Platonau Street, 16. It is planned to start issuing Schengen visas after two weeks from the opening of the embassy, “Belorusskie Novosti” writes.

The European Commission and the Estonian foreign ministry have promised support to an association of young pro-democratic Belarusians resident abroad.

The European Union’s external relations commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, has announced this in a letter to the organizers of the Congress of the New Belarusan Diaspora of Europe and the USA that took place in the Estonian capital this past March.

During the ceremony of opening “The Geographic center of Europe” memorial sign in Polatsk activists of the Young Front ran up a flag of the EU.

In a few minutes policemen detained a young activist Mikalay Dzemidzenka who was holding the flag. They stroke him down to the ground and twisted arms. A report wasn’t drawn up by the policemen, but the flag was seized.

The Ministry of Information of Belarus stands for registration of Internet media. It was said by Liliya Ananich, first deputy minister of information. In her opinion, there’s a problem of “stream of misinformation from foreign sites.” “But there are practices used in China, which blocked the access to the sites on its territory,” Ananich thinks.

On June 1, International Children’s Day, Gorky Park in Minsk “delighted” visitors with a new “fairground attraction” – a paddy wagon.

A real paddy wagon used by Belarusian riot police during crackdown on peaceful demonstrators arrived to the park. People who take to streets to protest against the policy of the state are taken to prisons in these huge armoured trucks produced by Minsk automobile plant. Peaceful demonstrators have many times been beaten up, as said by eyewitnesses. And yesterday children were given a possibility to sit on their benches…