Elena Levchenka (a prominent basketball player) spoke about the conditions at Akrescina, where she is currently being held.

“I want to let you know about the conditions here. They jeopardize my health. They took away the mattress and bedsheets. There is no hot water. They haven't let me shower for he last 13 days. They turned off the flushing at the toilet. It is a bacteria breeding ground. There was time when they didn't take me out for a walk for 5 days. I have lice now. Everything threatens my health and jeopardizes it.”

“The boiling point came when they teargassed the seniors, the people in their golden years,” says Alexander Kurban, a miner with Belaruskali. “How can you raise a hand to our mothers, our grandmas? Where will it go next, what's there to talk about next?” Today he refused to come up after night shift until his demands are met. The man was raised in about 30 minutes.

His work pass has already been blocked, and the man himself has joined the strike committee.

Elena Levchenka, a prominent basketball player arrested for her political stance, has been released from jail this morning and met her parents, who didn't know her daughter's whereabouts the whole day. Levchenka was fined 30 penalty units (ca. 325 USD) and set free after spending 15 days behind bars.

Svetlana Gatalskaya, a member of the Coordination Council, was arrested and sentenced to 15 days in jail. Policemen came to her apartment right after a food delivery courier.

Participants of today's March of people with disabilities are walking along Nezavisimosti Avenue. “Shame,” they are chanting.

The Investigative Committee of Belarus has commented on the information about a warrant on Sviatlana Tikhanouskaya.

The Committee reported that she is among the people “wanted for calls to overthrow the constitutional regime and acting against the national security via mass media or Internet.” Her charge is part of the Coordination Council case.

Maria Kalesnikava's lawyer: “Maria thinks that there can be no dialogue under these conditions. All the negotiators must be on equal ground. It is impossible to speak about any results of such negotiations while there are people imprisoned for political reasons. This step only shows weakness of the current regime. Despite the fact that for the last several months there was constant talk about the need for dialogue and compromise, the demands of the people haven't been heard.”

Sviatlana Tikhanovskaya met the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada.

François-Philippe Champagne spoke to her in Vilnius as a part of his official visit to Lithuania.

Back in September, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs announced financial assistance for civil society projects in Belarus.

Around 100 students of Minsk State Linguistic University gathered near the rector's office. Yesterday one of their coeds has been detained.

The line of people wanting to talk to the rector has spread over three floors. The students are holding papers that read “dialogue” in different languages.

The KGB claimed to have received information about the upcoming provocation.

“The goal of these actions is to destabilize the situation in our country given the obviously decreasing street activity.”

According to Ivan Tertel, the head of the KGB, the organizers of the provocation plan to accuse the law enforcement of causing it and its dire consequences.