Silence of European Union may kill Belarusian political prisoner (Video)

• 5.06.2009, 12:04

Austrian human rights activists are raising the alarm: political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich has been on hunger strike for more than 50 days.

A long hunger strike of the arrested Belarusian entrepreneur inspired human rights activists from Austria to make a clip that is being actively spread on the internet. A short movie tells about the destiny of Belarusian political prisoners, one of whom, Mikalai Autukhovich, had to go on hunger strike protesting against the unlawful arrest. The Belarusian authorities, however, don’t react to the protest act of the Belarusian prisoner of conscience. The EU leadership almost doesn’t show any reactions too.

Human rights defenders calls on the European Union to drew due attention to destiny of political prisoners in Belarus as hushing up this problem may kill these people. Austrians set the destiny of Yana Palyakova as an example. The Belarusian human rights activist committed suicide after having been sentenced to 2.5 years of restriction of liberty.