BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

05/08/2005

Another ethnic Polish leader sentenced in Belarus

ISN SECURITY WATCH (Friday, 5 August: 14.45 GMT) - Belarus sentenced the editor of a Polish-language newspaper to ten days in jail on Friday. He was the sixth member of a Polish cultural union to be punished in a recent crackdown. Andrzei Pisalnik was found guilty of taking part in an unlicensed demonstration on 3 July. Meanwhile, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed as farfetched statements by the US and the EU earlier this week condemning moves against Belarus' ethnic Polish community. Belarus and Poland have been engaged in tit-for-tat moves expelling each other's diplomats in recent weeks.

Source:

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=12354