Belarusian human rights defenders pass petition for release of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners to Presidential Administration
Representatives of democratic NGOs, civil activists
and human rights defenders of Belarus paid a visit to the Presidential
Administration to pass the petition
demanding an immediate and unconditional release of Ales Bialiatski and all
political prisoners and cessation of pressurization on human rights and civil
society organizations of the country. The petition was passed on the eve of the
International Day of Solidarity
with the Civil Society of Belarus which will be marked for the first time
on 4 August.
The delegation consisted of members of the Human Right
Center “Viasna”, the
Belarusian Helsinki Committee, the Center for Human Rights and other human
rights organizations, the Belarusian Association of Journalists and politician
Aliaksandr Milinkevich.
The Human Rights Center “Viasna” also called on representatives of
international and Belarusian human rights organization with the call to hold
actions of solidarity with Ales Bialiatski, the head of the Human Rigths Center
“Viasna” and the vice-President of the International Federation for Human
Rights (FIDH) who was arrested on 4 August 2011 and sentenced to 4.5 years of imprisonment
for human rights activism.
