Russian human rights activist Andrei Yurov leaves Belarus
The head of the International observation mission of the International Committee for control of the human rights situation in Belarus has already left Minsk
and is in Moscow now.
The International observation mission of the International Committee for control of the human rights situation in Belarus has informed about it.
Andrei Yurov, a Russian human rights activist, left Belarus on the morning of March 18 according to the Belarusian authorities’ demand.
Let us remind you that Yurov arrived in Minsk on March 14. He was detained by policemen on March 16 and spent the night in Soviet District Department of the Interior. The Belarusian authorities informed the human rights defender that he had been added on the list of personae non gratae on the Belarusian territory on March 4. He was ordered to leave Belarus within 24 hours.
Vadim Gusev, a representative of the Russian Embassy, has claimed in an interview with a reporter of Radio “Liberty” that the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not given any detailed explanation about Yurov’s deportation.
