BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

26/02/2008

Jailed activist freed for wife's funeral

Minsk - Belarussian authorities released jailed opposition activist Alexander Kozulin on compassionate leave on Tuesday so he could attend his wife's funeral, his lawyer said, after the European Union (EU) pressed for him to be allowed out.

Lawyer Igor Rynkevych said Kozulin, described by the West as a political prisoner, had been allowed to go home for three days. His wife Irina died from cancer at the weekend and will be buried on Wednesday.

Kozulin, 52, had been on hunger strike in protest at the authorities' earlier refusal to let him attend her funeral.

He was jailed for 5 and-a-half years in 2006 after helping to organise protests against President Alexander Lukashenko's re-election.

Source:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20080226090858690C869725

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