Monday, November 17, 2014

BELARUS AND SWEDISH LGBT CAMPAIGNS

FOR INJURED BELARUS GAY














Stockholm/Minsk — Both Belarus and Swedish LGBT organizations have launched a fund-raising campaign to help Mikhail Pischevsky, a Belarus gay architect/designer nearly beaten to death in a savage, homophobic attack in the Belarus capital last May—leaving him since then hospitalized,in a coma and permanently injured.

"It's been for the first time that a criminal case for committing a hate crime in relation to a homosexual person has received publicity in Belarus", says Oleg Rozkkov of Belarus's Gaypress. The attacker is appealing his 2-year jail sentence, insisting he was "cleaning up society" and should not be punished for beating up homosexuals.

"The family desperately needs financial help to care for Mikhail and to emplyee a nurse for essential care", say Belarus LGBT activists.

"We have long been working with Belarus LGBT groups and find it only natural to try to extend our assistance to them, to Mikhail and his family caring for him", says Bill Schiller of Tupilak (Nordic cultural workers) and ILGCN (International rainbow cultural network) Information Secretariat-Stockholm—both long working with Belarus LGBT colleagues.


















More information: http://gaypress.eu/2014/10/26/young-guy-beaten-nearly-to-death-after-a-gay-party-in-minsk/

For contributions:

​57 Beneficiary Bank
BELARUSBANK
18, DZERZHINSKI AVE
MINSK 220089, BELARUS
SWIFT: AKBBBY2X
Beneficiary
Bartashevich Valiantsina
Account number 000284
For treatment Michael Pischevskiy
Acc. at branch
527/527Кастрычнік 26, 2014

EURO:
56 Correspondent Bank
SWIFT: COBADEFF
COMMERZBANK AG, FRANKFURT AM MAIN
400886596600EUR

SWEDEN:
Tupilak
Post giro 498 3767-7
C/O "Mikhail"