Milinkevich’s HQ Head Summoned to Prosecutor’s Office Of Belarus :: Charter'97 :: News

Syarhei Kalyakin, the head of HQ of democratic candidate Alyaksandr Milinkevich, is summened to the Prosecutor’s Office on Monday, February 13 at 9 a.m. He is to provide explanations concerning his press conference on January 28.

As we have informed, on January 28 a press conference of the single democratic candidate’s chief of campaign headquarters Syarhei Kalyakin and the head of Milinkevich’s initiative group Alyaksandr Bukhvostau was held. It was dedicated to the results of signatures collection for nomination of Alyaksandr Milinkevich as a candidate for presidency in Belarus.

At the press conference Syarhei Kalyakin said that the regime is not too nice about the means for achieving its aims: “We are observing a fully criminal action, a crime. Heads of enterprises, administrations, executive authorities, educational institutions, and what is the most dangerous, workers of law-enforcing agencies and prosecutor’s office, who are to enforce the law, are drawn in this crime. In all bodies of internal affairs and prosecutor’s offices, a forcible collection of signatures in support of Lukashenka was carried out. Moreover, administration of enterprises and agencies took part in that, which is directly prohibited by the Electoral Code”.