Riot militia officers forced participants of the solidarity action out of October Square in Minsk on 16 May. People came to the square demanding to release political prisoners.
Young opposition activist Anastasiya Palazhanka has been told that she was placed on the list of Belarusians banned from exiting the country by mistake.
Chargé d'Affaires of the United States of America in Belarus Jonathan Moore has taken part in an on-line press-conference at the website of "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus" newspaper. He has commented sanctions imposed by the US against the Belarusian regime.
