Activists of the Belarusian Radio and Electronic Workers' Union (REP) called citizens of Belarus to make use of the right of legislative initiative with the aim to return the privileges to children under three years of age, pupils and students, which were cancelled by the President of Belarus in 2007. On June 1 – the International Children's Day – activists of the REP Trade Union all over the country were disseminating leaflets "Let us together return privileges to our children".

"People were taking our leaflets with great interest; they read them and expressed their support," said Nikolai Gerasimenko, press secretary of the REP Trade Union, said to the website. "Quite different from political leaflets, which are immediately thrown into garbage bins. It was seen that the problem of return of the privileges really worries the people. We spread our leaflets among adults and children. Two schoolboys aged about 12 read the leaflet and exclaimed: "Oh, this is about us!"

"Despite the authorities' bans, we'll go on dealing with the issues, which worry people. And during disseminating the leaflets we saw that people are really excited," said Gennady Fedynich, Chairman of the REP Trade Union. "And there's no other way. Parents have to pay all the time in schools and kindergartens, and here – they also took away the privileges. We have calculated that after cancellation of the privileges, a family with one child has to spend additionally about three millions roubles a year. We also know that the funds spent on construction of three ice palaces could be enough for providing all the children of Belarus with free-of-charge medicines during a year.

Let us remind you that the REP Trade Union had addressed the authorities asking to sanction pickets on June 1 – the International Children's Day. Activists wanted to protest against cancellation of privileges that had existed before 2007 for children under three years of age, pupils and students and call to return them.

In total, 30 applications had been submitted by primary organizations and rank-and-file members of the REP Trade Union in all country regions. The authorities failed to sanction a single picket.

Trade-union activists had stated that the authorities' bans were illegal and promised to disseminate information about their initiative in spite of the bans.

In Minsk, three activists were detained by special militia agents in the Gorky Park. They were brought to the Partizanskiy ROVD (District Interior Division) for examination, where they were forced to get photographed and give their fingerprints.