{"id":86462,"date":"2024-05-21T23:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/86462\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"rally-calls-on-lithuanian-foreign-ministry-to-demand-that-minsk-release-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/86462\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarusians hold rally in Vilnius to demand release of political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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May 21, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> About 150 participants at a rally marking the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus has demanded that Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka’s government immediately release the political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers read out a petition to the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to step up pressure on Minsk, urging demonstrators to sign it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appeal said the signatories included Lithuanian politicians, as well as Belarusian human rights defenders, former political prisoners and political emigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We have come together to express our solidarity with the Belarusian political prisoners suffering in prisons, being tortured and persecuted by the authorities of the Republic of Belarus. Some political prisoners have died in custody,” the petition said. “We all express our solidarity with Belarus’ political prisoners and demand their immediate release.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We call on you to join our demands to the illegitimate government of the Republic of Belarus and appeal to it to release Belarus’ political prisoners,” the demonstrators appealed to the Lithuanian foreign ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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