Biaroza: human rights defenders intend to hold a picket in support of Ales Bialiatski

Human rights defenders addressed the Biaroza District Executive Committee asking to permit them holding a picket at 6-7 p.m. on 24 August 2011 in the officially allowed place, the town stadium.

The aim of the picket is to express protest against the arrest and criminal persecution of human rights defender Ales Bialiatski and the politically motivated imprisonment of the civil and political activists for participation in the peaceful protest action of 19 December 2010, and general discussion of the situation of human rights in the Republic of Belarus.

Human rights defender Siarhei Rusetski hopes that the authorities will authorize the action, as the applicants implemented all requirements for such an action and informed the DEC about it. They also asked to inform them about the order of paying the expenses for services of the police, medics and public utilities.

Meanwhile, not a single application for authorization of a street action has been granted in the town of Biaroza during the recent years.