Voormalig presidentskandidaat en ex-politieke gevangene Alexander Kazulin maakte dit bekend tijdens de receptie ter gelegenheid van het 55-jarig jubileum van Radio Svoboda (Radio Vrijheid), waarbij ook het boek “Een dag van een politieke gevangene”, geschreven door journalisten van de radiozender, werd gepresenteerd.

“Now the authorities are preparing a new law which would give law-enforcing agencies – the KGB, the Internal Affairs Ministry, the State Control Committee – new possibilities to detain our citizens without sanction of the prosecutor. And we understand perfectly well that political repressions are to continue, that is why creation of the Association of Political prisoners is a very important, as it is very important for the voice of political prisoners (including those who are behind the cars now, like Vaukavysk businessmen Mikalai Autukhovich and Yury Lyavonau, as well as the former officer Uladzimir Asipenka) to be heard worldwide,” Alyaksandr Kazulin said.

Among those who joined the Association of Political Prisoners, the former head of the Belarusian government Mikhail Chyhir, a former agriculture minister Vasil Lyavonau, a journalist and a former deputy of the parliament Mikola Markevich, young activists Andrei Kim and Artur Finkevich, politicians Vyachaslau Siuchyk, Yury Khadyka, Viktar Ivashkevich, human rights activists Valery Shchukin, Katsyaryna Sadouskaya, a former Minsk mayor and former Minister of Foreign Economic Ties, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador Mikhail Marynich and other well-known personalities.

Bron: charter97