In Paris, members of FIDH’s international bureau, arriving from Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Argentina, the United States, Colombia, the DRC, Finland, Mauritania, Palestine, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Mexico, Tunisia, Malaysia and Armenia, met in front of the Belarusian Embassy to denounce Ales’s four and a half year prison sentence under strict regime conditions. The LDH France, the Vietnam Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CVDDH), the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), the Armanshahr/Open Asia Foundation and the Lao Movement for Human Rights also participated in this event.
FIDH Rally in front of the Belarusian Embassy in... par fidhdailymotion
The Belarusian Ambassador refused to receive the FIDH delegation. The open letter addressed to President Loukachenko was therefore deposited in the Embassy’s mail box.
Hundreds of balloons were released into the air in tribute to Ales.
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