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The applicants will claim the city authorities' decision in court.
Minsk authorities sanctioned only a demonstration in the Bangalore Square, while the opposition had planned to conduct a rally to Yanka Kupala Park.
Stanislau Shushkevich, Aliaksandr Kazulin, Victar Ivashkevich and others signed the appeal.
This issue will be discussed by the Foreign Ministers today in Brussels.
One of them covered his shoulders with the Belarusian national flag while the other was wearing a white-red-white ribbon that looked like
Leaflets in support of the political prisoners appeared at bus stops and on poster pillars.
More than two dozen people including the mothers of arrested Mikita Lihavid, Edward Lobau, Fyodar Mirzayanau and Pavel Sevyarynets took part in the action.
The action has been conducted by the UCP youth branch "Young Democrats".
The Party Congress adopted a correspondent resolution "Hands Off the Island of Freedom!" today.
