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OMON riot policeman Andrey Bekish has gone to court, accusing the independent Belarusian portal Nasha Niva of spreading false information, discrediting his honour and tarnishing professional reputation.

Since People’s Ultimatum expired at 23.59 on October 25, opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya called on Belarusians to join a nationwide strike. The main demands are Lukashenka’s resignation and the release of political prisoners.

On Thursday morning, Alyaksandr Kurban, a shotfirer and worker at mining department #4, chained himself to a metal structure at a depth of 440 metres.

On Thursday, defence lawyer Dzmitry Layeuski managed to meet with his client Maksim Znak, a member of the board of the opposition Coordination Council and lawyer at presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka’s campaign office, who was arrested on September, 9.

Election day, queue in front of the election commission. Pavel Zhuk records the queue and says that he is seeing something like this for the first time. The observer tells how the elections are conducted. Evening. Events in front of the stella. People, water cannons, stun grenades.

In Minsk, a procession of believers walked around the Red Church which has recently become a symbol of the persecution of Roman Catholics byAlyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime.

On September 10, Belarusian courts drew penalties upon 36 people for their participating in ‘unauthorised mass events’ that took place from August 27 to September 9, human rights centre Viasna reports. Over the past few weeks, the protesters’ cases have been heard every day.

Six Belarusian media workers detained during Tuesday’s protests in Minsk were left overnight in Kastrychnitski district police department.

On June 7, as was the case a week and two weeks ago, the initiative groups of potential presidential candidates were collecting signatures for their nomination. Pre-election pickets took place in about 30 Belarusian cities and towns.