Petition for release of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners passed to Ambassador of Belarus to Lithuania (video)
On 6 August Lithuanian and Belarusian civil
activists gathered near the Belarusian Embassy in Vilnius to express solidarity
with the well-known human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, detained a year ago
and sentenced to 4.5 years of prison for work for the human rights in Belarus.
Participants of the actions passed a collective petition to the Ambassador of
Belarus. The petition, signed by more than 200 people, contained the demand to
immediately and unconditionally release Ales Bialiatski and all political
prisoners in Belarus. Apart from Belarusians and Lithuanians, signatures under
the petition were put by citizens of Britain, Belgium, South Korea,
Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal, USA, Pakistan, Italia, Luxemburg and other
countries (21 countries in total).
“We demand that the Belarusian authorities immediately stop persecution of
civil society activists and human rights defenders in the country and put the
legislation of Belarus in line with the international standards of human
rights,” reads the petition.
TV channel “Euronews” showed a report about the action in Vilnius in support of
the human rights defender Ales Bialiatski who has been kept in jail for a year
by now.
