70 people arrested in Minsk
On 29th of October Belarusian police arrested 70 members of an independent election monitoring group attempting to register their group with the country’s authorities. So they had a meeting at the theatre to prepare registration documents (which is perfectly legal), but police raided the building and arrested all 70 members on charges of attending “an unauthorized meeting.” Several hours later, after taking finger prints and written explanations, they let most of the people go. But three “organizers” were kept in jail and sentenced to 15 days administrative arrest, yesterday.
So mister Lukashenka has already started his preparation for 2006 elections.
November 1st, 2005 at 4:47 pm
So sad :(