Persecution of civil activists in Svislach continues
Public lecture on human rights in Vitsebsk, 10 December 2012
Recently, administrative reports or alleged participation
in an unauthorized action have been drawn up on the local citizens Viktar
Dzesiatsik, Yury Hlebik and Anatol Valiuk.
Earlier four participants of commemoration of participants of the anti-Russian
insurgency of 1863-1864 from different citizens of Belarus were detained. Three of
them were subsequently sentenced to three days of arrest, and the fourth one –
to a fine.
Several days after it the police started disturbing the local participants of
the event. As it follows from the police reports, soon they will be summonsed
to court.
The Hrodna human rights defender Uladzimir Khilmanovich thinks that this could
be done of an order of the regional or even the capital’s authorities.
“We have been celebrated the Day of Commemoration of 1863 Insurgents for 19
years without any provocations, manifestations of extremism or violations of
the public order. People come there from different cities in order to honor
those whom they regard as national heroes. In fact, the intention to try the
Svislach activists who haven’t violated any provisions of the present
legislation is a manifestation of a real ethnocide. At the same time, nothing
is done to those who lay flowers and wreaths to monuments of the bloody communist
leaders Lenin and Stalin,” commented Mr. Khilmanovich.
