Belarusian human rights demonstration to take place in Vilnius

On August 4, 2015, a protest supporting Belarusian political prisoners will take place in Town Hall Square in Vilnius. 

The demonstrators will protest for improved human rights in Belarus, plus the release of political prisoners in the country.

The event organisers chose August 4, because Ales Beliatsky, the prominent leader of the Belarusian human rights group, Vyasna*, was detained on the day in 2011 on tax evasion charges. 

He was granted early release from prison in June, 2014, despite being initially given a four-and-a-half year sentence.

"Despite Beliatsky’s early release in 2014, pressure on human rights activists remains,” the event protest organisers said in their statement. “There are at least six political prisoners in Belarus right now.”

Another four opponents of Belarusian President, Aleksander Lukashenko disappeared in 2000. Their cases have not yet been investigated.

Belarusian presidential elections in Belarus will take place on October 11 this year.

Human rights activists are concerned that the Belarusian government will once again start taking preventive measures, and imposing restrictions on the independent media and human rights.

According to the protest organisers, the protesters will march from the Town Hall to the Belarusian Human Rights House on Latako Street.

The event will be attended the young generation of Belarusian human rights activists and they will march from the Town Hall to the Belarusian Human Rights House on Latako Street, the organizers said.

The event will be attended the young generation of Belarusian human rights activists and they will march from the Town Hall to the Belarusian Human Rights House on Latako Street, the organizers said.

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