BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

22/12/2010

Defeated Belarus hopeful on hunger strike

The opposition Belarusian politician Anatoli Lebedko has gone on hunger strike. Together with several other losers in the country's presidential elections on Sunday, he is now in preliminary detention on charges of organizing riots against the re-election of Alexander Lukashenko.

In the meantime, a St Petersburg press photographer named Alexander Astafyev is on his way home after being released from detention in Minsk.

Russian consular officers are working to bring forward the release of all other Russians who were arrested on Sunday night.

Source:

http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/12/22/37478248.html




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