The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

Frantsishak Viachorka, a candidate for deputy for the Mazyr District Council of Deputies running at the Stantsyinaya electioin constituency #25, was detained on 24 April near the Culture House 40 Hod Kastrychnika and guarded to the Mazyr District Police Department.

Today night Franak Vyachorka has been taken from military base to the Republican Military Hospital in Minsk.

Charter97.org has been told about that by the father of the political soldier Vintsuk Vyachorka.

The medics found the forcefully drafted opposition activist has stage 2 hypertension with a risk to deteriorate to stage 3 hypertension.

The address of representatives of Human Rights Center Viasna with the demand to stop the unlawful persecution of the Belarusian-speaking soldiers including F.Viachorka has been forwarded again – this time to Homel inter-garrison military procuracy. The human rights defenders were officially informed about it by lieutenant-colonel A.Kot, first deputy military prosecutor of Belarus.

The oppositional politicians Alexander Bukhvostau, Viktar Harbachou, Leu Marholin and Vintsuk Viachorka have been searched on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border.

Another pressure campaign has been started in the military unit in Mozyr against a leader of the BPF Youth Franak Viachorka who had been forcibly drafted to the army.

As said to BelaPAN by his father, the political activist Franak Viachorka has been put in military medical center #290 in Babruisk for complex examination because of troubles with heart and joints.