Hundreds Thousands of Letters In Support of Freedom of Speech 16:09, 09/12/2005
Polish branch of influential human rights organization “Amnesty International” has held a wide action “Freedom of Speech in Belarus” against persecution of independent media in Belarus, Polish reporter of the Radio Svaboda Alyaksei Dzikavitsky informs.
Two weeks ago the Amnesty International urged the Poles to send emails and ordinary letters to the administration of Belarusian president and Belarusian Embassy in Warsaw with a demand to stop harassment of independent journalists, public leaders and oppositionists. Leading Polish newspapers were issued with black paint on their front pages, which symbolized censorship. About 30 thousand portraits of repressed Belarusians were put in the streets of Polish cities.
“The action was a success. Only on the first day Polish citizens sent about 100,000 emails to the presidential administration and Belarusian Embassy. In general we can speak of hundreds thousands such letters. The most influential world mass media have written about the action. To be honest, we had not expected that so many Poles would support this idea so willingly,” one of the organizers of the protest Pawel Usakowski told.
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