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An action under the motto: “Freedom of speech in Belarus”” began in Poland today. The action was initiated by Amnesty International and aims at bringing into focus the issue of human rights violation in Belarus.
The Belarus opposition and independent journalists suffer repressions from the regime of president Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994. Independent media are shut down and journalists are sentenced to prison or forced labour. Penalties for offending the president are common.
The action in Poland is joined by popular dailies like Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita, as well as internet portals which blacked out their front pages in protest of the gross violation of press freedom by the authoritarian government of Lukashenko. Photographs of thousands of Belarus politicians and journalists who had suffered repressions in Belarus can be found in the dailies and will be displayed in Polish cities and at the EU headquarters in Brussels as part of the campaign.
| Source: Radio Polonia | Nov.23.2005 |
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