Gorbachyov defends Iryna Khalip

The ex-President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachyov and the commissioner for human rights of Russia Uladzimir Lukin have addressed to Aliaksandr Lukashenka. They are asking to release the journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" Iryna Khalip, who is now imprisoned in the KGB detention center.

Gorbachyov and Lukin focus on the fact that Khalip's 3-year-old child is looked after his elderly grandparents, informs "Solidarity".