Petition in support of Ales Byalyatski filed to Presidential Administration
It happened on August 3. HR defenders Aleh Hulak and Tatsyana Ravyaka passed the petition to the Administration's front office.
The action went with no incidents, informs BelaPAN. The petition in support of Vice-President of the
International Human Rights Federation, head of the center "Vyasna"
Ales Byalyatski was signed by Chairman of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee
Aleh Hulak, Byalyatski's colleague in "Vyasna" Tatsyana Ravyaka,
leader of the movement "For Freedom!" Alyaksandr Milinkevich, deputy
head of the "Belarusian Association of Journalists" Andrei Bastunets
and a number of other civil activists.
The essence of the
petition lies in the demand to release Ales Byalyatski and other prisoners of
conscience immediately and unconditionally. The authors of the document demand
to stop pressure and harassment of the civil society activists, and to bring
the Belarusian legislation into correspondence with the international standards
in the field of human rights.
