International Abduction Victims Day marked today
The International Abduction Victims Day is marked today. The UN General Assembly adopted an International convention for protection of people from abduction on December 20, 2006.The document was signed by 57 states. 19 states have already ratified the Convention. Belarus signed it but has not ratified it yet, reminds BelaPAN.
Meanwhile, the problem of abduction is an issue of the day in Belarus. Representatives of the opposition went missing in the country in the autumn of 1999 – a former Minister of Internal Affairs Yury Zaharanka, a vice-speaker of the Supreme Council Victar Hanchar and a wholesale entrepreneur Anatol Krasouski. A TV cameraman Zmitser Zavadski disappeared in the summer of 2000.
A memorial action dedicated to Zaharanka, Hanchar, Krasouski and Zavadski will take place in the central square of Amsterdam this evening. It has been allowed by the city authorities.
Meanwhile, Brest authorities have forbidden Brest activists to conduct a meeting in support of the ratification of the International convention for protection of people from abduction.
Meanwhile, the problem of abduction is an issue of the day in Belarus. Representatives of the opposition went missing in the country in the autumn of 1999 – a former Minister of Internal Affairs Yury Zaharanka, a vice-speaker of the Supreme Council Victar Hanchar and a wholesale entrepreneur Anatol Krasouski. A TV cameraman Zmitser Zavadski disappeared in the summer of 2000.
A memorial action dedicated to Zaharanka, Hanchar, Krasouski and Zavadski will take place in the central square of Amsterdam this evening. It has been allowed by the city authorities.
Meanwhile, Brest authorities have forbidden Brest activists to conduct a meeting in support of the ratification of the International convention for protection of people from abduction.
