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On the 10th of April the European Union has officially introduced sanctions against the Belarusian president Aliaksandr Lukashenka and 30 high-ranking officials. All of them are non grata persons in the EU countries. (11-APR-06)

The Supreme Court refused to consider the complaints of the former candidates to the presidential position of Republic of Belarus Aliaksandr Milinkevich and Aliaksandr Kazulin, in which they asked to bring criminal cases with the aim to find illegitimate the results of the presidential election that was held on 19 March (06-APR-06)
 

Several journalists have been released in the Republic of Belarus the last days after 8-12 days´ imprisonment. The editor of Nasha Niva, Andrej Dynko has published a diary from his detention in Akrestsina prison. -The worst tricks of Soviet times are back, and the repressive machine has grown much larger. In 1996, the courts fined people for scuffling with police. In 2006, they convict young women to 7 days on a plank bed without mattresses for a bottle with tea, Dynko writes. (4-APR-06)
 
 

At night to 24th of March Belarusian SWAT has liquidated tent camp of opposition’s adherents in the center of Minsk. More then 500 people were arrested because of the participation in peaceful action of protest. (30-MAR-06)
 

30 international and journalists have been arrested in Republic of Belarus form14 to 24 of March in the Republic of Belarus. Andrej Dynko the chief-editor of Nasha Niva has been sentenced to 10 days´of imprisonment. Six international journalists are among the arrested. See the list below. (24-MARCH-06)
 

After elections 19th of March Central Electoral Committee (CEC) of Republic of Belarus announced Alexander Lukashenko as the reelected president of the country. Opposition did not accept these results and called its adherents for the termless peaceful protest rally. About 20000 people went out to Minsk streets. Up to date about 250 protesting persons were arrested by police.(22-MARCH-06) 

The Belarusian Association of Journalists expresses solidarity and support to all its colleagues, including the foreign ones, who have met difficulties with access to information in the Republic of Belarus and are facing restrictions of their professional activity.(16-MARCH-06)

The electoral campaign in the Republic of Belarus started more than three weeks ago. During this time the police detained more than 300 persons. More than 40 of them (including Valiantsin Viachorka, the chair of the BPF Party and the proxy of the candidate to the presidential position Aliaksandr Milinkevich) were sentenced to 15 days of arrest by ‘fair and independent courts’. (13-MARCH-06)

On the 6th of March Belarusian population had a rare chance to get  to alternative information by listening an appeal of the candidates to the presidential positions on the radio. But republican  radio station illegally cut some parts out of these speeches  while broadcasting oppositional appeal to Belarusian electorate.(09-MARCH-06)