For our freedom and yours!

Rallies of solidarity are to be held in our country and all over the world to support Belarusians fighting for freedom.

Participants of June 16 actions of solidarity, which will be held in Minsk and other cities in Belarus and abroad, are going to remind that prisoners of conscience are still kept in Belarusian jails, cases of abducted and murdered opposition leaders are not being investigated.

Vaukavysk businessmen Mikalai Autukhovich and Uladzimir Asipenka, arrested in February 2009, are in prison.

Political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich is persecuted for his active struggle for the rights of entrepreneurs. Autukhovich went on a 90-day hunger strike in protest that ruined his health.

The Supreme Court sentenced Mikalai Autukhovich to five years and two months in a medium security penal colony. Uladzimir Asipenka got three years in a minimum security penal colony.

The cases relating disappearances of opposition leaders Viktar Hanchar, Yury Zakharanka, Anatol Krasouski and journalist Zmitser Zavadski in 1999-2000 are still not investigated in Belarus. The world community suspects high-ranking Belarusian officials close to Alyaksandr Lukashenka are responsible for these abductions.

Repressions against dissenters in Belarus, independent journalists, opposition activists, representatives of the civil society, continue.