ALEH HULAK CALLED IN FOR QUESTIONING BY INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE

25.03.2021

Aleh Hulak, chairman of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, was summoned for questioning to the central office of the Investigative Committee as a witness in criminal proceedings on 24 March. The case number was not stated.

We regard that as pressure and an attempt to discourage the activities of a human rights organisation.

We recall that BHC volunteers monitored the elections, protected lawyers using international mechanisms, defended the right to a retirement pension in Belarus, campaigned for the abolition of forced labour (decree “on parasites” and on “woodwork”, distribution), continuously kept the international bodies informed on the situation in Belarus, etc.