Rallies in support of elections boycott held by Belarusian expat community (Photo)

• 3.09.2008, 8:32

Belarusian expat community has staged a rally in support of the “parliamentary elections” boycott in Belarus.

More than 60 persons have taken part in the rally. Beside the Belarusians, representatives of the Czech organization “Young Conservators”, Georgian community and Ukrainians have taken part in the event. Representatives of the civil initiative “Free Belarus”, community “Pahonya” and the youth movement “Young Revival” have also supported the Georgian citizens who protested against Russian aggression against their country.

Belarusian activists have handed out about a thousand of leaflets with a statement which explains the reasons of the boycott of the illegal “parliamentary elections” in Belarus and condemn the Russian policy towards Georgia.

Belarusians were wearing T-shirts with crossed out pictures of Lukashenka shaking hands with the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. The words “Boycott-2008” were placed over the crossed picture. Georgian community representatives were holding a poster “Today in Georgia, tomorrow back in Prague?”.

The rally evoked great interest among numerous visitors of Prague from many parts of the world, who approached the participants of the rally to ask about the real situation in Belarus.

Reporters of the Czech public television and of the national informational agency STK were present at the rally.