When: Monday, 6. August 2012 1 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
To: Monday, 6. August 2012
Where: Vilnius, Mindaugo St., 13
Contact: Anna Gerasimova (860836679)

On Monday, August 6, Lithuanian and Belarusian civil society activists are coming to the embassy of Belarus in Lithuania to express the support and solidarity with Ales Bialiatski, head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” and vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), who was arrested on August 4, 2011 and later sentenced to four years and six months of imprisonment for his human rights activities.

Participants will visit the embassy to pass the petition demanding an immediate and unconditional release of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners and cessation of pressurization on human rights and civil society organizations of the country.

Time for action: from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Location: Mindaugo St., 13, Vilnius, Lithuania

Location map: http://lithuania.mfa.gov.by/img/823/maplt_0x480.jpg

Signatures for the petition will be collected on August 4 – the anniversary of Ales Bialiatski’s arrest – and on August 5 in Vilnius: Pilies Street (Sirvido Square) and Gediminas Avenue (V. Kudirkos Square) from 5 p.m to 7 p.m.

The organizers invite every concerned to come and sign the petition to the Belarusian authorities.

Click the following links to read the text of the petition:

in Belarusian: http://spring96.org/be/news/55154

in English: http://spring96.org/en/news/55156

in Russian: http://spring96.org/ru/news/55155

Support the persecuted Belarusian human rights activists! Do not remain indifferent to unjust persecution against those who have never remained indifferent to violation of your rights!

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