Founder of Info Belarus, comments on TeliaSoneras debate article in Dagens Nyheter, about their cooperation with dictatorial regimes. ”By ”only following laws” in countries with no rule of law, where even clapping hands in public is forbidden (Belarus), TeliaSonera is doing a great job in being the dictators henchman” says Isabel Sommerfeld.
Info Belarus samordnare Isabel Sommerfeld följdes i mars av ett TV-team på en resa till ”Europas sista diktatur” Belarus. Resan var en del av Uppdrag Gransknings undersökning av TeliaSoneras verksamhet i utlandet. Resultatet ser ni i kvällens Uppdrag Granskning, där det avslöjas att TeliaSoneras samarbete med regimen i Belarus är betydligt mer långtgående än vad TeliaSonera har velat erkänna.
In March 2012, the founder of Info Belarus, Isabel Sommerfeld was followed by a TV team from Swedish Television’s ”Uppdrag Granskning” to Belarus. The trip was part of their depth investigation of the Nordic Telecom giant TeliaSonera’s and their business in dictatorships. ”Uppdrag Granskning” can now disclose how TeliaSonera is connected to human rights abuses in the former CIS countries.
Diktator Lukasjenka genomför en enorm satsning inför ishockey-VM 2014. Han lägger stor personlig prestige i VM-projektet. Det skulle räcka att en enda delegation vid internationella ishockeyförbundets kongress i Helsingfors i maj begär att frågan tas upp på dagordningen, för att det ska finnas en chans att Lukasjenka fråntas detta PR-jippo. Den svenska delegationen består av Peter ”Foppa” Forsberg, Mikael Peterson och Christer Englund. De har enligt uttalanden fortfarande inte bestämt sig för om de tänker lyfta frågan vid kongressen, så nu gäller det att ligga på… Det är här DU kommer in i bilden. Skriv till den svenska delegationen och kräv att de inte håller diktatorn om ryggen. Ingen puck för Lukasjenka, Foppa!
Today an international solidarity action for Belarus was held all over Europe, organized by Young European Federalists. In Stockholm the action against death penalty and for freedom in Belarus, was organized by Info Belarus and the Swedish Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (Östgruppen).
A Swedish TV team was today detained during their work in Minsk. Among the detained was also the Swedish human rights activist and founder of Info Belarus, Isabel Sommerfeld.
”We have two days to create a media outcry in the world to hopefully stop the court in Belarus from punishing the accused with death penalty. Regardless of their guilt, it’s not okay for a country in the middle of Europe to still actively use death penalty as punishment. When a life is taken, it will never return. We are fortunate to be born in a country with freedom of expression and press freedom. With freedom comes responsibility . So let’s focus the spotlight on ”Europe’s last dictatorship” and speak for the silenced,” Sommerfeld writes.
Info Belarus project manager Isabel Sommerfeld will today take part in a seminar organized by Amnesty International in Sweden, where you will be able to hear her talk about her trips to Belarus and the presidential election in 2010. Since today is the International Day Against Death Penalty, Amnesty will be informing about Belarus, the only state in Europe and [...]
Wednesday is getting closer, and more protests will be held in one of the last dictatorships in Europe; Belarus. The latest months, thousands of belarusians have been arrested for walking in silent protest, gathering on squares all over the country, clapping hands. People are tired of oppression, tired of the bad economic and political situation. On Tuesday, Swedish Television reported [...]
Isabel Sommerfeld, Project Manager behind Info Belarus, today writes together with Jonathan Leman (reporter at the magazine Expo) and Johan Berggren (Editor in Chief at Ordfront Magasin, one of the biggest society Magazines in Sweden) about how Wikileaks representatives use their leaks to support dictatorships. The case which is specifically addressed is Israel Shamir, Wikileaks representative who was in place [...]
