Picket in support of Belarusian political prisoners in Lviv (Photo)

• 14.10.2009, 10:05

The youth organization National Alliance held a picket in Lviv this week demanding to release Belarusian political prisoner Artsyom Dubski.

The youth activists came to Market square carrying portraits of the arrested participant of the Process of 14. The young people were covering their moths with hands that symbolized absence of freedom of speech in Belarus.

Representatives of National Alliance were handing out leaflets with information about the situation in our country and collecting signatures to Belarusian ambassador to Ukraine Valyantsin Vyalichka. They gathered about 100 signatures, which were sent to the ambassador.

The first picket to support Dubski was held by National Alliance in Lutsk in early August. Pickets in support of Artsyom Dubski will be held in other regions of Ukraine in the nearest time.

We remind that on July 7 participant of the Process of Fourteen Artsyom Dubski was sentenced to a year of imprisonment in a correctional colony of general regime for participation in the Process of Fourteen. In 2008 the young activist was forced to leave for Ukraine as militiamen issued two far-fetched warnings for violation of the rules of serving the sentence. Dubski was detained in February 13, 2009 in Homel.

The Process of 14 is a criminal case under article 342 of the Criminal Code of Belarus, instigated against participants of a peaceful rally of entrepreneurs held in Minsk on January 10, 2008.

For participation in this rally 14 youth activists were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment and restriction of liberty. Amnesty International recognized the participants of the Process of 14 Prisoners of Conscience in 2009.