Actions in Support of Professor Bandazhevsky in Europe :: Charter'97 :: News

Ahead of another anniversary since the Chernobyl disaster representatives of the international organization “Scientists against nuclear research” and staffers of the independent laboratory of radiological research CRIRAD (France) are holding a series of actions in support of the Belarusian professor Yuri Bandazhevsky.

April 25 in the Swiss Basel the French and Swiss medics will show a documentary about the life of the Gomel researcher. On April 26 in Geneva representatives of the international organizations will hand in their missive to the UN Commission for Human Rights with a demand to set free their colleague.

On May 25 near the UN headquarters in Geneva there will be held an action under the title “Freedom to Yuri Bandazhevsky!”. This event was originally scheduled for May 4 but, as far as many anti-nuclear organizations wanted to attend it, it was determined to put the thing off till later period.

In the past the scholars from France, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, USA and other countries spoke in favor of Mandela. Sakharov, Nikitin… Now they are alarmed by the destiny of the incarcerated Belarusian professor Bandazhevsky.