Viktar Ivashkevich: “International observers will watch actions of Lukashenka on September 28”
- 26.09.2008, 9:31
A district militia officer came to deputy head of the BPF party Viktar Ivashkevich with a summons from the prosecutor’s office of the Savetski district of Minks.
Viktar Ivashkevich is summoned to appear in the prosecutor’s office on Friday, September 26, for a conversation on “prevention of violation the law during mass street actions”.
Ivashkevich phoned to the district militia officer and said he was in Kobryn at that time as an authorised representative of MP candidate, Alyaksandr Mekh, a BPF party member.
“I think it is demonstration of unjustified pressure on democratic activists and leaders of political organisations. The opposition has always had peaceful actions. On September 28, hundreds international observers and journalists from all over the world will visit October Square of Minsk on September 28 and will estimate the situation. On September 28, international observers will watch the action of Lukashenka,” Viktar Ivashkevich commented on the situation to the Charter’97 press center.
It should be reminded that all over the world people have right to take to streets and dispute the results of elections, if they think the results have been rigged. Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, has recently reminded it to Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
“Lukashenka can’t understand that citizens of any country, considered democratic, have the right to protest against rigged election results,” Secretary General of the Council of Europe said on occasion of release of political prisoner Alyaksandr Kazulin.
President of the International Federation for Human Rights Luis Guillermo Perez said during his visit to Minsk that if the authorities tried to hinder people’s actions in streets on the election day, he would seek for sanctions against the Belarusian regime.
“If the election is not democratic, people have the rights to protest in streets,” President of the International Federation for Human Rights Luis Guillermo Perez told in an interview to the Charter’97 press center.
According to FIDH Secretary General, “the authorities, defying the opinion of the people and allowing falsification of elections, are illegitimate”.