11.   Lukashenko had personally proposed the clause barring convicted rally participants from running for office, and had threatened to impose it by decree if parliament failed to approve it.

12.   Other rally participants detained were Polish Solidarity party legislator Mariusz Kaminski, and seven Polish observers with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

13.   Rally participants also demanded an increase in allowances to low-income families.

14.   Rally participants charged that authorities harassed parents whose children went to Belarusian-language schools and forcefully transferred such schools to Russian-language education.

15.   Rally participants later said the injuries were minor.

16.   Rally participants managed to detain one of the attackers, who was turned over to police.

17.   Restrictions by Indonesian authorities on Friday were so tight that rally participants even failed to read out the original independence declaration.

18.   The rally participants will leave for Pakistan Friday.

19.   The rally participants entered Pakistan on Saturday.

20.   Rally participants also demanded the resignation of Bangladeshi Home Minister Abdul Matin Chowdhury for alleged inaction.