Monkey business of Mazyr officials

Mazyr human rights defender Uladzimitr Tseliapun still hopes to hold a picket in support of political prisoner Ales Bialiatski. However, the local authorities try to invent different pretexts not to allow the action.

On 6 October the human rights defender finally received an excerpt from the ruling of the Mazyr District Executive Committee concerning the conclusion of service agreements with the medics, the police and the public utilities. Then he went to Piatro Zykun, head of the Mazyr District Police Department. The official made a Xerox copy of the excerpt and said he would make an inquiry to the district executive committee to receive an official confirmation.

The heads of some of the institutions with which the agreements were concluded complained to the human rights defender that simultaneously with allowing him to hold the action the DEC officials recommended them to annul the agreements.