BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

22/08/2006

Belarus Releases 2 Election Activists of U.S.-Financed Organization

MosNews

Two members of a Belarussian election-monitoring group have been released after spending six months in jail on charges of working for an unregistered organization, Radio Free Europe reports.

The two monitors - Enira Branitskaya and Alyaksandr Shalayka - were among four election monitors from the U.S.-financed Partnership organization who were arrested in February in the run-up to the March 19 presidential election. They were released on August 21.

The two other monitors - Mikalay Astreyka and Tsimafey Dranchuk, who have been sentenced to one and two years in prison, respectively - remain jailed.

Belarus President Alyaksander Lukashenko won a third term in the election, which was condemned by Western countries as unfree and unfair.

Source:

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/08/22/belarusreleases.shtml

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