Three youth activists beaten up in Minsk

Three activists with the youth wing of the opposition Popular Front -- Franak Vyachorka, Anton Kalinouski and Stsiapan Sviderski -- were beaten up late in the evening on September 28. The incident took place at 23:20 at the crossing of Nekrasov Street and Bahdanovich Street. The opposition activists were returning home from the protest action on October Square when three unidentified thugs, aged 25-30 years old, attacked them from behind. During the fight, the thugs took the activists' posters, but latter managed to run away.

Several hours earlier in Vitsebsk, unidentified thugs had beaten up Uladzimir Bazan, a photo journalist and the former chief editor of the local independent newspaper Vitsebsk Courier.