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The Gang: 15 Years On and Still Silent

Wednesday, December 17, 2014
HVC-201 Capitol Visitor Center
Washington, DC 20515
United States
Official Transcript: 
Staff: 
Name: 
Orest Deychakiwsky
Title Text: 
Policy Advisor
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Witnesses: 
Name: 
Raisa Mikhailovskaya
Title: 
Founder and Director
Body: 
Belarusian Document Center
Name: 
Irina Krasovskaya
Title: 
Co-Founder and President
Body: 
We Remember Foundation

Orest Deychakiwsky, Policy Advisor of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, presided the briefing on the screening of the documentary, "The Gang: 15 Years and Still Silent", with the participation of Freedom House and The German Marshall Fund.

The documentary told the story of three opposition politicians and one journalist that disappeared under unknown circumstances.

Mr.  Deychakiwsky was joined by Raisa Mikhailovskaya, a prominent Belarusian human rights defender and producer of the documentary, and Irina Krasovskaya, co-founder and president of "We Remember Foundation", which seeks justice for the politically oppressed in Belarus.

 

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