The President of the World Federation of Belorussian Jews, Jacob Gutman, was arrested by the Belorussian Police on charges of holding an unlicensed demonstration outside the Belorussian President’s office in Minsk. On 14th January 2004, the Interfax News Agency reported that Gutman had intended on calling on President Lukashenko to stop the destruction of Jewish sites, Jewish cemeteries and monuments in memory of the Holocaust victims in Belarus.
