The current Chairman of the Organization for Safety and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Foreign Minister of Sweden Ann Linde put the demand to the Belarusian authorities and, in particular, President Alexander Lukashenko, calling for all political prisoners in the country. Her statement Published in twitter .
According to her, due to the refusal of the Supreme Court of Belarus, according to which members of the Presidium of the Coordination Council of the Belarusian opposition, Mary Kolesnikova and Maxim, refused to satisfy complaints about the sentence, European politicians actually kidnapped Christmas. “Sweden does not go to the Christmas holidays when it comes to protecting human rights,” Linde said.
Sign and Kolesnikov received 11 and 10 years in prison, respectively, on charges of conspiracy in order to capture the power and the creation of extremist formation. Linde criticized the sentence and demanded to free the political prisoners.