The trials of activists continued for the second day in a row in various cities of Belarus. read more

On March 15, dozens people were detained in Belarus, most of them in Minsk. According to human rioghts defenders, over 30 people were taken to Central District Police Department alone despite the fact that the rally against Decree No 3 was authorized by the authorities. read more

On March 11-12, residents of a number of Belarusian towns, including Orsha, Babruysk and Rahachou, took to the streets to protest the so-called ‘parasite’ law. read more

Police have detained a group of opposition leaders and at least three journalists during the latest in a series of charged protests over a controversial government-backed unemployment tax. read more

The Lithuanian authorities plan to build a network of sirens in and around Vilnius to alert residents to possible accidents at the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, Juris Targonskas, deputy head of the fire safety and rescue department at the Lithuanian interior ministry, told the BNS news agency. read more

The Belarusian authorities are planning to introduce amendments to the ‘freeloaders’ tax’ (President's Decree No 3 "On preventing social parasitism") but they will not abolish it, vice speaker of the House of Representatives Balyaslau Pirshtuk told. read more

One of Kurapaty memorial site defenders Siarhei Palcheuski on March 7 was detained in Minsk, Young Front leader Zmicier Dashkevich wrote on Facebook. The police grabbed Palcheuski in his residential block and took him to Minsk's Persamajski District Police Department. read more

Five anarchists - Andrei Dzeniushkin, Aliaksandr Kazlianka, Dzmitry Laychuk, Ruslan and Pavel - were detained after the Non-Freeloaders March in Brest on Sunday, Euroradio has learned from Aliaksandra, the girlfriend of one of the detainees. read more

Moscow may take use of the joint exercise West 2017 to deploy a new military contingent in Belarus as Russian leadership has not refused from plans to boost its military presence on the territory of its west-bound ally, Russian commentator Alexander Sytin told Euroradio. read more

The third action against Decree #3 (also known as the freeloaders’ tax) was held in Brest on March 5. About a thousand people took part in the march, some sources reported. It has been a while since such a mass action was held in Brest. read more