16/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - In plenary session on Thursday, the Conference of Presidents of the political groups in the European Parliament, through Vice-President Ingo Friedrich, publicly called for the immediate release of seventeen people held in prison on the eve of general elections in Belarus. Applauded by his colleagues, Mr Friedrich read out the names of each of those being held. An MEP, pointing out that, in Belarus, opponents of the Lukashenko regime put a lighted candle in their...