Yesterday solidarity rallies took place all over the world. Photos: Berlin, New York, St. Petersburg, Lviv, Warsaw, Koln, London, Taipei, Eindhoven, Washington.
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About 80 participants of the retirees' march were detained at Nezavisimosti square. Now they are at the police station.
There are about 20 people near the Leninsky District police station; they are friends and relatives of retirees detained today on the march in Minsk. Volunteers and people who came to pick up those who will be released are here also.
Volunteers say that those under 60 are to go to jail, while the rest can be released. There are people born in 1945 among detainees. The medicines brought were not accepted by the police department.
According to the volunteers, one of the pensioners detained today on the march was taken by ambulance to the emergency hospital from the Oktyabrsky district police department.
Volunteers say that those under 60 are to go to jail, while the rest can be released. There are people born in 1945 among detainees. The medicines brought were not accepted by the police department.
According to the volunteers, one of the pensioners detained today on the march was taken by ambulance to the emergency hospital from the Oktyabrsky district police department.
Natalia Kochanova, Chairman of the Council of the Republic, said today: “Modern service and good conditions for patients and doctors are very important, because people, their well-being and health have always been and remain a priority area of state policy.”
Natalia Kochanova said on June 19 (about doctors' low salaries): “When you went to the medical university, you knew about the salaries.”
Natalia Kochanova said on June 19 (about doctors' low salaries): “When you went to the medical university, you knew about the salaries.”
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Detained retirees are being released one by one now.
Belarusians of St. Petersburg and Moscow have gathered for solidarity rallies to support their mates. St. Petersburg has been seeing such kind of rallies for 128 days in a row.
A Minsker was sentenced to 3 years of house arrest for insulting Karaev (former Interior Minister) in comments to a YouTube video. During the court hearing the comment itself wasn’t mentioned, due to its obscene nature. General description of the commentary was “Karaev will get scared, before he’s able to tell the President that he will implement the Constitution”.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya urged the European Union to step up its support for embattled democracy protesters in her country, as she picked up the EU’s top human rights prize Wednesday on behalf of a group of opposition leaders.
“Without a free Belarus, Europe is not fully free either. We ask Europe and the whole world to stand with Belarus,” Tsikhanouskaya told lawmakers in Brussels as she collected the Sakharov Prize on behalf of the Belarus opposition.
Holding aloft photographs of Belarusians who have rallied against authoritarian Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko, protesters who often been detained and beaten by security forces, she dedicated the award to them. At the same time, Tsikhanouskaya appealed to the 27-nation bloc to be braver in its actions.
“Standing for democracy and human rights is not interference, but it is duty of each self-respecting country,” she told EU lawmakers, speaking in English. “Your solidarity and your voice are important, but it is actions that matter.”
“Without a free Belarus, Europe is not fully free either. We ask Europe and the whole world to stand with Belarus,” Tsikhanouskaya told lawmakers in Brussels as she collected the Sakharov Prize on behalf of the Belarus opposition.
Holding aloft photographs of Belarusians who have rallied against authoritarian Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko, protesters who often been detained and beaten by security forces, she dedicated the award to them. At the same time, Tsikhanouskaya appealed to the 27-nation bloc to be braver in its actions.
“Standing for democracy and human rights is not interference, but it is duty of each self-respecting country,” she told EU lawmakers, speaking in English. “Your solidarity and your voice are important, but it is actions that matter.”