Iryna Khalip addresses Putin's and Medvedev's wives
The open letter of journalist and wife of the
Belarusian ex-presidential candidate Andri Sannikau Iryna Khalip has been
published in today's issue of the Russian “Novaya Gazeta”. Iryna
turns the attention of Lyudmila Putina and Svetlana Medvedeva to the fact that
the situation with Andrei Sannikau is crucial.
"Belarusian special services are doing their best to turn me into a widow,
and our son into an orphan”, Iryna Khalip writes. She asks the wives of the
Russian President and PM to convince their husbands to
demand release of Sannikau and other political prisoners from Lukashenka.
Let us remind you, Andrei Sannikau was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment for
"organization of mass riot". He has been kept in jail since 19
December 2010 - the day of the presidential election.
