Repressed Politicians’ Wives and NGO’s Representatives At OCSE Conference :: Charter'97 :: News

In Warsaw on September 24 at the Conference “Human Dimensions”, organized by the OCSE the problems of the freedom of expression and freedom of associations were discussed. On this day the representatives of Belarusian non-governmental organizations had an opportunity to voice their opinion. Ludmila Karpenko (Gennady Karpenko Foundation) and Ludmila Gryaznova, (Charter’97) represented the non-governmental organizations. Ludmila Karpenko on behalf of the wives of the repressed politicians (Svetlana Zavadskaya, Irina Krasovskya and Tatyana Klimova, who were also present at the conference), told about the political assassinations and abductions of the opponents of the Belarusian regime. Ludmila Gryaznova made a report on the violations of the freedom of expression and freedom of assembly by the authorities, which ked to the failure of the democratic forces at the elections. As for the reports of international human rights organizations’ representatives at the conference, they aired their concern about the political situation and lack of respect to human rights in Belarus.