Youths end hunger strike
Five young
opposition activists on May 15 ended their hunger strike in protest against the
detention of three opponents of the government, Mikalay Awtukhovich, Yury
Lyavonaw and Uladzimir Asipenka, BelaPAN reported.
Three of the five young people on hunger strike at theMinsk
They decided to stop their protest after an appeal by Pavel Sevyarynets, a leader of the unregistered Belarusian Social Democracy party, Alyaksandr Milinkevich, leader of the Movement for Freedom, BPF Chairman Lyavon Barshchewski and prominent opposition politicians Mikalay Statkevich and Vyachaslau Siuchyk.
At a news conference at the BPF office on Friday evening, the politicians said that the plight of the three dissidents was now the focus of international attention and the main goal of the hunger strike had therefore been achieved.
Three of the five young people on hunger strike at the
They decided to stop their protest after an appeal by Pavel Sevyarynets, a leader of the unregistered Belarusian Social Democracy party, Alyaksandr Milinkevich, leader of the Movement for Freedom, BPF Chairman Lyavon Barshchewski and prominent opposition politicians Mikalay Statkevich and Vyachaslau Siuchyk.
At a news conference at the BPF office on Friday evening, the politicians said that the plight of the three dissidents was now the focus of international attention and the main goal of the hunger strike had therefore been achieved.
