Democratic Forces to Participate in “Big Jeans Festival” :: Charter'97 :: News

All structures of the united democratic forces will participate in the action “Big Jeans Festival”. This decision was taken yesterday at the session of the Council of united democratic forces in Minsk. “Big Jeans Festival” is to take place on September 16. The event including a meeting and a concert is to start at 4 p.m. on Bangalore Square. “Big Jeans Festival” is also an action of solidarity with families of the abducted Belarusian politicians and with Belarusian prisoners of conscience.

“All participants of the Council of united democratic forces have unanimously supported holding “Big Jeans Festival”. Seven years ago, on September 16, 1997, opposition leaders Viktar Hanchar and Anatol Krasouski went missing. Our duty is to remember about that and to demand the authorities to answer the questions about their abduction. We shall definitely take part inn “Big Jeans Festival”, told the leader of the democratic forces Alyaksandr Milinkevich to the Charter’97 press center.