Dit staat in een officiele brief aan de Procureur Generaal van Wit Rusland, Ryhor Vasilevich. In deze brief schrijft Nicola Duckworth, de directeur Europa en Centraal Azie van Amnesty International:

“Ik schrijf u over de case van 11 jonge mensen die zijn gestraft met vrijheidsbeperking vanwege deelname aan een demonstratie op 10 januari 2008 in Minsk. Amnesty International is er van overtuigd dat ze zijn gestraft vanwege de  vreedzame uitoefening van hun rechten op deelname aan demonstraties en vrije meningsuiting. Om deze reden erkennen wij hen als gewetensgevangenen. Het gaat om 11 personen die betrokken in het Proces van de Veertien: Artsyom Dubski, Mikhail Pashkevich, Tatsyana Tsishkevich, Paval Vinahradau, Alyaksei Bondar, Mikhail Kryvau, Alyaksandr Straltsou, Alyaksandr Charnyshou, Mikhail Subach, Maxim Dashuk en Alyaksandr Barazenka.

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The organisation called prisoners of conscience those who are serving the sentence in the form of restriction of freedom. Now in fact that are under home arrest, under close surveillance, and after an insignificant violation they could be thrown to prison any moment.

As we have informed, two other participants of this criminal case, Anton Kojpish and Uladzimir Syarheeu, were fined.

Nicola Duckworth in the address to the prosecutor general Vasilevich calls upon him to free from punishment the participants of the Process of Fourteen, and carry out investigation of beating the activist of the civil campaign “European Belarus” Alyaksandr Barazenka by a police officer on March 23.

In connection with this fact Amnesty International demands the prosecutor general to control actions of policemen who are in charge of controlling the conditions of restriction of freedom and guarantee that the abovementioned 11 activists are to be treated justly and without prejudice.

The Process of Fourteen is a criminal action under article 342 of the Criminal Code of Belarus against participants of the peaceful protest rally of small businessmen held in Minsk on January 10, 2008.

On May 15 a trial over a political prisoner Artsyom Dubski is to take place. He is charged with violation of the rules of serving the sentence.

Amnesty International is an international movement uniting 2.2 mln people from more than 150 countries and territories who fight for the end of gross human rights violations.