Belarus: Health concern / prisoners of conscience

Index Number: EUR 49/002/1996
Date Published: 22 May 1996
Categories: Belarus, Europe And Central Asia

Yuri Khadyka, 57, Vyacheslav Sivchyk, 34: AI is concerned for the well-being of two prisoners of conscience currently awaiting trial in Belarus. The above, both leaders of the Belorussian Popular Front have been hospitalized as a result of a hunger-strike they began in protest at their arrest after a recent rally commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster.