Campaign News

The authorities have allowed the journalist Irina Khalip to see her husband, the Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov. He was sentenced (as was she) in the matter of “19 December”.

Activists of “European Belarus” and of an informal group of Vitebsk youth called “Free way” have hung a banner with the slogan “Freedom for political prisoners” and “Long Live Belarus!”

The candidate for the Belarusian presidency has been sentenced to such a term for protesting against the fasified results of the elections.

The candidate for the Belarusian presidency, currently accused in the case of organizing riots on 19 December 2010 in Minsk, thinks that the criminal case against him indicates the fear of the authorities before the coming changes.

The influential international human rights organization “Amnesty International” will send letters to the governments of countries, international organizations and human rights organisations, calling attention to the torture which Andrei Sannikov, the arrested presidential candidate, has been undergoing.

Today in the Partizanskii District Court of Minsk the presidential candidate, Andrei Sannikov, told about threats from the Chairman of the KGB, Zaitsev, and about tortures in the KGB jail.

If I were asked to name the people who represent a paradigm of patriotism, I would think of Andrei Sannikov. If I were asked to name people who truly believe in Europe and in democracy, Andrei would surely be amongst them.

Activists of “European Belarus” have carried out an action of information in Gomel, in support of political prisoners.

“In prison people read ‘Narodnaya Volya’ and ‘Nasha Niva’ from cover to cover. The threat of closure of these newspapers evokes indignation,” the prisoner of conscience, Aleksandr Otroshchenkov, has told his wife Darya.

The participants in the peaceful act of protest against the falsified results of the elections on 19 December 2010 in Minsk have received sentences ranging from 3 to 4 years in a “harsh regime” prison.