14.02.2021, 14:56
SASHA FILIPENKA
Writer Sasha Filipenka has appealed to the head of the Red Cross to help stop torture in Belarus.
Belarusian writer
Sasha Filipenka appealed to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross,
Peter Maurer, with a request to help stop torture in Belarus. The letter was published by Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a major Swiss German-language newspaper.
The Village cites the full text of the appeal:
Dear Mr. President!
During your visit to Russia, you expressed a desire to meet with me to discuss my book The Red Cross, which has been recommended to you by the President of Switzerland. As you said, you liked the book very much. You have postponed our meeting several times, explaining that you would first like to meet Mr. Lavrov and Mr. Mishustin, whose names and positions probably should have made a great impression on me - but they didn t.