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Amnesty International Public StatementEleven Prisoners of ConscienceOn 5 May, in an unprecedented move, AI wrote to the Prosecutor General of Belarus stating that the organization considers 11 young people, who are currently serving sentences of restricted freedom, to be prisoners of conscience. All of them participated in a peaceful protest in Minsk in January 2008 and Amnesty International believes that they had been sentenced to a punishment which amounts to imprisonment for peaceful exercise of their rights to freedom of assembly and expression. Following an unauthorized demonstration against the introduction of a Presidential decree concerning tax and employment regulations for small businesses, which took place on 10 January 2008, 14 people were initially prosecuted for criminal offenses for their participation… (Three of them were fined or amnestied)…and the 11 remaining young people were sentenced … for ”taking part in or organizing actions that gravely disturb public order” and sentenced to between one and a half and two years of restricted freedom. (The list of the 11 names follows in AI’s Public Statement — Editor) The conditions of restricted freedom that are laid out in Article 48 of the Criminal Procedural Code are so restrictive that Amnesty International considers it to be a form of imprisonment. ”… In its letter, Amnesty International urged the Prosecutor General to immediately and unconditionally lift the restrictions” ”… to ensure that an impartial investigation is carried out into allegations of beating” ”… to investigate the actions of the police officers.” 15 May 2009 This article appeared in Belarusian Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 --------------------------------------------- Copyright 2009 Belarusian Review All rights reserved. belarusianreview@hotmailcom
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