Entrepreneurs demand release of Autukhovich, Lyavonau, Asipenka
The Coordination Council of Belarus' Entrepreneurs has demanded an immediate release of Mikalai Autukhovich, Yury Lyavonau and Uladzimir Asipenka.
The three entrepreneurs were detained on February 8 in Vaukavysk and charged with arson. They currently remain at detention facility in Minsk. On April 16, Mikalai Autukhovich went on an indefinite hunger strike. He demands that the case be sent to court as soon as possible or the three of them be released under the written undertaking of not leaving the country.
"The hunger strike of Mikalai Autukhovich is not just a protest against injustice or the violation of human rights in their case, but this is a struggle for a better future of the whole Belarus", Belapan news agency quotes the statement of the Coordination Council of Belarus' Entrepreneurs.
The three entrepreneurs were detained on February 8 in Vaukavysk and charged with arson. They currently remain at detention facility in Minsk. On April 16, Mikalai Autukhovich went on an indefinite hunger strike. He demands that the case be sent to court as soon as possible or the three of them be released under the written undertaking of not leaving the country.
"The hunger strike of Mikalai Autukhovich is not just a protest against injustice or the violation of human rights in their case, but this is a struggle for a better future of the whole Belarus", Belapan news agency quotes the statement of the Coordination Council of Belarus' Entrepreneurs.