MPs protest Belarus

  • 2003-04-03
VILNIUSThe opposition Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives) held a picket near the Belarus Embassy in Vilnius on March 31 to express their protest against the imprisonment of Vincuk Viachiorka, one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition. The Belarusian Popular Front leader Viachiorka and a few colleagues of his were arrested for the period of 10 days because they held an unsanctioned meeting to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Belarus independence in Minsk on March 26. In the words of Rasa Jukneviciene, a member of the Conservative parliamentary group at Seimas (Lithuania's parl...
 
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