Authorities Have Brought Entrepreneur to Disability :: Charter'97 :: News

Health professionals said to the entrepreneur Lubou Razanovich, who had been taking part in the hunger strike of protest in Brest, that she would be registered as a disabled person because of her state of health. Lubou Razanovich was on hunger strike from July 5 to August 7. She refused to drink liquids for the last 8 days.

“Doctors told me that because of my state of health I would be registered as a disabled person. I have liver, kidney and spleen problems. I want officials to hear that. Every month I pay 1 million 230 thousand rubles of different taxes and fees. In what way have I offended the state? Who is responsible for my loss of health? In case I would be persecuted again, I would restart dry hunger strike and I would apply for a political asylum in another country. It is impossible for private entrepreneurs to live in Belarus,” Lubou Razanovich said to the Radio Svaboda.

The termless hunger strike started in Brest on July 5. Among hunger strikers are owners of taxi cars, their relatives, drivers and two vendors from a Brest market, who joined the protest. They demand to overturn the ruling of tax agencies. Hunger strikers refuse to pay the fee for using means of transportation in business activities paid by owners of cars imported to Belarus before 2004. The republican tax was imposed by a presidential decree in 2004, and the owners of taxi cars had imported cars in Belarus much earlier. On August 2 L. Razanovich sent an open letter to the president asking him “to prevent the human tragedy and to help”.