BPF Party gives Volha Nikalaichyk with Viktar Ivashkevich Award

Activists of the Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) and Tell the Truth campaign gave the Viktar Ivashkevich National Human Rights Award to Volha Nikalaichyk.

The activist and film director took part in a performance near the Russian embassy in Minsk this year. She brought the make-up bag that pro-Putin bikers Night Wolves had forgotten during their trip through Belarus. Volha Nikalaichyk actively stands for boycotting the “presidential elections”, Belsat TV reports.

Viktar Ivashkevich died at the age of 55 on October 3, 2013. He was an activist and participant of the first underground independent organisations Maistrounia (Workshop) and Talaka in the early 1980s. He joined the Belarusian Popular Front in 1988. He was the editor of Rabochy newspaper.

He was arrested many times. In October 2002, he was sentenced to 2 years of restraint of liberty for his article “Thief must be in prison”, in which prosecutors found libel against the Belarusian head of state.

He had been deputy head of the BPF party until 2009. He became the head of the BPF Minsk city department in February 2011.