All human
rights activists arrested Wednesday in Minsk
while demonstrating on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the UN Universal
Declaration of Human Rights have been released without charges, BelaPAN
reported. A total of
six people were arrested, including Ales Byalyatski, vice president of the
International Federation for Human Rights, human rights defender Uladzimir
Labkovich, young opposition activist Franak Vyachorka, and Iryna Tolstsik. The activists passed out copies of the UN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Police
seized the declarations, campaign jackets and flags.
Police also
released several activists of a new youth opposition group called Maladaya Belarus (Young Belarus) who staged a small
demonstration next to the KGB's central office in downtown Minsk. They were apprehended while walking
near the building wearing prison clothes with signs saying, "I’m an
independent journalist," and "I’m a member of an unregistered
organization."
In Brest, two young activists spent a few hours at a police
station after hanging out Belarus’
historically national white-red-white flag near the main building of BrestStateUniversity on December 10.
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