Original sentence: In 1998, Sannikov and Hienadz Karpienka  created the Coordinating Council of Democratic Forces of Belarus, which actively speaks for human rights.In 2008 Andrei Sannikov, together with Viktar Ivashkevich, Mikhail Marynich and other politicians, initiated the civil campaign European Belarus.In November 1997, Sannikov was one of the co-founders of the civil initiative Charter 97, becoming its international coordinator.In the years following, Sannikov helped organize a variety of non-violent protests in Belarus, including protests against the elections of 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2008, which were heavily criticized by the OSCE and the EU for lack of transparency, intimidation of voters, suppression of opposition groups, and suspected falsification of results.The campaign advocates joining Belarus with the European Union and aims to work towards the standards that would allow inclusion.The group hosts one of the most popular Belarusian news web pages, and is a rare voice of opposition to the Lukashenko party in Belarus.When the mass protests after the presidential election in 2006 were violently suppressed by riot police, Sannikov stated he was beaten and jailed, and his computers, disks, and memory sticks were seized
Edited sentence: In 1998 Sannikov and Hienadz Karpienka  created the Coordinating Council of Democratic Forces of Belarus, which actively speaks for human rights.In 2008 Andrei Sannikov together with Viktar Ivashkevich, Mikhail Marynich and other politicians initiated the civil campaign European Belarus.In November of 1997 Sannikov was one of the co-founders of the civil initiative Charter'97, and became its international coordinator.In the years following, Sannikov helped organize a variety of non-violent protest manifestations in Belarus, including protest action against the falsification of election results in 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2008.The campaign advocates joining Belarus with the European Union, and aims to work towards the standards that would allow the inclusion.The group hosts one of the most popular Belarusian news web pages, and is a rare voice of dissidence with the hard-liner Lukashenko party in Belarus.When the mass protests after the presidential election in 2006 were violently suppressed by authorities, Sannikov has stated he was beaten and jailed, and his computers, disks, and memory sticks were seized