Syarhei Kalyakin: “Repressions to Affect All Contenders For Presidency” 11:43, 01/06/2005
“It was an entirely unjust ruling, and a completely illegal one. It is an attempt to remove from the political arena the people who really work and struggle with the existing dictator’s regime. It is an attempt to intimidate people who want changes. The ruling has been passed to preserve the level of fear in the society. A brutal clear-up of political field is carried out. But the actions of the authorities are rather revealing the weakness of the authorities and its fear facing the inevitability of changes,” told the chairman of the Belarusian Communist Party, one of the possible single candidates of democratic forces, Syarhei Kalyakin, commenting on the verdict to Belarusian opposition leaders Mikola Statkevich and Paval Sevyarynets, who had been sentenced to three years of corrective labour for organizing opposition protest rallies. According to the politician, the ruling to Mikola Statkevich, who had been nominated as a candidate for presidency by the Belarusian Social Democratic party (Narodnaya Hramada) and the European coalition, could show that in this or that way the repressions are to concern every one who state their intention to participate in the elections as presidential runner.
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