Valery Levonevsky freed after nearly 2 years imprisonment in Belarus

15 May 2006  The leader of the Movement of Belarusian Entrepreneurs, Valery Levonevsky, was released today after two years imprisonment in Belarus.

In September 2004 the Grodno Court convicted him of insulting the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko.

On Monday it was a year to the day since a second Belarusian businessman, the former leader of the opposition deputy group “Respublica”, Sergei Skrebets, was arrested.