Andrzej Poczobut Recognized Prisoner of Conscience
The statement published on AI web site.
Andrzej Poczobut, the correspondent of Gazeta Wyborcza was recognized the prisoner of conscience by the international human rights organization Amnesty International. This was said in the statement published on organization’s website.
“A journalist, Andrzej Poczobut, is at risk of being sentenced to five years imprisonment in Belarus after being arrested for criticizing the Belarusian President. He is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression,” reads amnesty.org.
The statement urges people to “ write immediately in Belarusian, Russian or your own language calling on the authorities to release Andrzej Poczobut immediately and unconditionally and urging them to guarantee the right to freedom of expression in line with their international human rights obligations, including Article 19 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights.”
A Belarusian journalist of Polish origin Andrzej Poczobut, the correspondent of Polish Gazeta Wyborcza, was arrested in his apartments in Hrodna on June 21. He is accused of ‘defaming the President.’
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