BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

21/09/2006

Jailed Belarusian Opposition Leader On Hunger Strike

September 21, 2006 -- The press office of the former Belarusian presidential candidate Alyaksandr Kazulin says the jailed opposition leader began a hunger strike on September 20.

Kazulin reportedly wants the people of Belarus and the international community to recognize that the government of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka is illegal.

Kazulin is serving a five-and-a-half-year jail sentence for organizing an unsanctioned rally to protest against the reelection in March of Lukashenka in a vote condemned as unfree and unfair by the EU and the United States.

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/09/BC891F49-F6B6-4F39-BB9D-B9FA715353B2.html