BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

19/01/2007

Belarusain Prosecutor-General Says Hunger Strikes Show Low 'Legal Awareness'

Belarusian Prosecutor-General Pyotr Miklashevich said that mass hunger strikes staged in 2006 were evidence of the protestors' low "legal awareness," Belapan reported on January 18. Miklashevich said that Belarus has a judicial and law-enforcement system that ensures "the accurate and rigorous enforcement of laws, edicts, decrees, and other law-enforcement regulations by all government officials and people." Miklashevich also said that public awareness should be raised on how to solve problems. "It [a hunger strike] brings nothing but health problems," he added. AM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/01/3-cee/cee-190107.asp