Demands to carry out independent investigation of Aleh Byabenin’s death in Minsk (Photo)

A street action under this slogan was held in Minsk on the Day of Belarusian Solidarity.

Activists of European Belarus campaign organized the action on Independence Avenue near GUM department store. They formed a human chain and held portraits of the journalist. Some participants of the action lighted candles.

A lot of passers-by came to the activists, expressed their support and asked how the investigation of the journalist’s death was going on.

Aleh Byabenin, the founder and director of charter97.org website, was found hanging in his summer house near Minsk on September 3. The law-enforcement agencies hurried to report it was a suicide. The death of Aleh Byabenin raises many questions. Forensic scientists cannot define the exact time of his death. Aleh Byabenin didn’t leave a suicide note .Friends and relatives of the journalist claim there were traces of violence on his body. Aleh Byabenin was a key figure in the team of opposition presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov.