2010-03-26: Urging Belarus dictator to stop harassment

Civil Rights Defenders and three other human rights organisations sent a protest letter to the Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenka concerning the recent arrest of three human rights defenders. Each of the three was fined a sum equal to $6 for protesting against capital punishment, and thereafter released. In the letter we urge the authorities to stop harassment of those defending human rights in Belarus.

Read our letter (pdf) and the news post on the arrest.

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