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ECBA Human Rights Committee Statement regarding crackdown on protesters in Belarus – August 2020

20 Aug 2020 | Human Rights Committee, Protest Defence Rights

Click here for the Statement.

The Statement has been sent to the President of the Republic of Belarus, Mr Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, to the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Belarus, Mr Yuri Karayeu, and to the Minister of Justice, Mr Oleg Slizhevsky, of the Republic of Belarus on 20/08/2020.

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