Demands to release political prisoners in Maladzechna (Photo)

• 4.05.2009, 11:04

The rally of solidarity with political prisoners Mikalay Autukhovich, Yury Lyavonau and Uladzimir Asipenka was held in Maladzechna.

An activist of the civil campaign “European Belarus” and local democratic activists gathered in the centre of the city near “Rodina” cinema. Young people were holding portraits of political prisoners. Yong people were holding portraits of political prisoners. Citizens were interested by the rally and asked about the Belarusian political entrepreneurs, the website europeanbelarus.org informs.

Participants of the rally of solidarity called upon holding protest rallies in the streets of their cities every day at 6 p.m. Mikalay Autukhovich continues indefinite hunger strike since April 16 with a demand to terminate the criminal case, to release him and two businessmen from Vaukavysk, Yury Lyavonau and Uladzimir Asipenka, or to hold an open trial. Autukhovich suffers from pancreatitis, that is why the hunger strike is a danger to his life.