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The gift was presented. Five years after the first attempt

During the current Freedom Day Antonina Pivonos finally able to give a gift Vitebsk distributor of independent press Boris Khamajda.

A tapestry where activist embroidered words of the prayer "Our Father", similar to the tapestry that she was going to give Mr. Khamajda back in 2008, on the 90th anniversary of the proclamation of independence of BPR. But then trying to do it was bad: Antonina Pivonos captured policemen the tapestry away, and the very activist was tried for alleged violation of the law "On Mass Events in the Republic of Belarus."

A few months ago, the Committee on the Human Rights Council found that in 2008 the Vitebsk rights activists have been violated. According to the committee, the Belarusian authorities are required to compensate for her all the costs incurred and the confiscated property - the tapestry or pay the cash equivalent. HR solutions authorities have not complied. To get them to do it faster, Antonina Pivonos recently went to court.

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