BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/01/2007

Belarus has no political prisoners - Interior Ministry

MINSK, January 24 (Itar-Tass) - Belarus has no political prisoners, Interior Minister Vladimir Naumov told a news conference on Wednesday.

"In our prisons we have no citizens, who are sentenced on political charges," he said.

Those citizens whom the Opposition or western officials consider political prisoners "as a rule serve their prison term for hooliganism and group violations of public order," Naumov said.

On his recent visit to Belarus PACE President Rene van der Linden called on the Belarussian authorities to begin integration with European structures from the release of political prisoners.

Van der Linden pointed out that international experts should resolve existing disagreements with Belarus on who is a political prisoner.

Source:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11185587&PageNum=0

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