Martin Uggla denied Belarusian visa again
The
chairman of a Swedish human rights initiative Östgruppen Martin Uggla has been
denied an entry visa to Belarus.
As said
by the human rights activist, he with his family planned to go to Ukraine in June
to visit the European Football Championship. However the Belarusian Embassy in Stockholm denied the
human rights activist even a transit visa, RFE/RL informs.
“It is obvious that they want to punish me for criticizing the Belarusian
authorities for human rights violations. But it is a little comic that I am not
even allowed to travel through Belarus
with my children. But I am not going to keep silent about the human rights
situation in Belarus
because of this denial. On the contrary I am going to continue my work even
more persistently and support my friends and colleagues in Belarus,” Martin Uggla said.
