Press Review

The political prisoner Dmitry Drozd had to go through hell, but he has no regrets about anything.

“I admitted guilt and fully repented – this is not about me”, said Vasil Parfyankou in his first hours of freedom. What did a petition for pardon look like, and why did 9 people sign it? Also, see how Minsk met those first released from custody, convicted of the events of 19 December, in this video report:

The department for carrying out punishments of the Belarusian Interior Ministry is ready quickly to fulfil Lukashenko’s decree to pardon nine people convicted for the events on 19 December 2010.

Belarus can count itself lucky that the EU has not broken relations with it because of the endless repression against the opposition, the Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, has declared.

Today it was reported on “VKontakte” by the community “Revolution through the social network” that the next action will take place on 20 July on October Square.

Belarus’s young dissidents

Darya Korsak, the wife of Alyaksandr Atroshchankau, has been summoned to the military prosecutor’s office on Friday 10 June at 10 o’clock in the morning, to explain about allegations of torture and cruel, inhuman treatment in the KGB prison. She was summoned to an investigator who deals with the most important cases.

A few days ago a coordinator of “European Belarus”, Maxim Vinyarskii, was released after 15 days in jail. He spoke about the details of his arrest and his stay in the detention center on Okrestina Street in an interview with this site.

Europe’s last dictator is attacking social networks: over the past few days the Belarusian KGB has detained three administrators of anti-Lukashenko groups of the network “V Kontakte,” reports La Croix.

“Webmoney” account for the payment of fines of those arrested at the protest “Stop petrol”: