Four Opposition Activists Go On Trial In Belarus

Youth Front activists at a press conference in March (Bymedia.net) May 28, 2007 -- Four activists of an unauthorized youth group went on trial in Minsk today.

The defendants are members of the opposition "Youth Front" organization, which has been denied official registration by the administration of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka.


About 100 protesters gathered outside the courthouse in their support.


Membership in an unregistered organization is punishable by up to two years in prison in Belarus.


(Reuters, Belapan)

Politics In Belarus

Politics In Belarus

Demonstrators in Minsk on March 25 (RFE/RL)

WHAT HAPPENED? Belarus scholar Vitali Silitski and RFE/RL Belarus analyst Jan Maksymiuk took a look a how Belarus has changed since mass demonstrations in Minsk in March 2006 failed to produce meaningful change in that country.


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