Alexander Mikulin (pictured) sent a letter to the chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets where requests to take appropriate measures - not to allow "a bestial relationship" to the people who are forced to work in unsanitary conditions, pursuant to the orders of senior management.

Mr. Mikulin is a member of the Vitebsk office of "civil contract", an initiative of "Tell the Truth", to protect the rights of local people.

He said that an e-mail to him the letter from Orsha, from there the workers of enterprises, which are obliged to go to the farms, to "save" the harvest:

"People have written that they were sent to Tolochin region in an apple orchard near the village Kokhanova the so-called" doborku "apples. This was on October 26, and on that day the first snow fell. Hide from him nowhere, people were cold, and the machine, to load collected apples, had to wait quite a long time. Under snowfall were teachers, doctors, workers of industrial enterprises, which were sent to the farm "by the order" without thinking about the conditions in which they will have to exercise the "corporate assistance. '"

City "bosses" were sent to Alexander Mikulin and videos of his work under the snow. Vitebsk activist believes that such cases are not unique. Indeed, in the independent media has got a special telephone message Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, which deals with urgent "mobilize" people to clean linen until October 22. And not the Town Council so far, in some farms Glubokoe District clean linen from snow to students of the Lyceum.

"In order to prevent such a travesty to continue, I went directly to the Chairman of the Executive Committee. So he, as head of the field, ordered the farm managers to provide elementary least as regards the conditions of the urban" bosses. "Because otherwise the use of their work, including the forced labor of young people - an insult and just bestial attitude of the human person ", - says Alexander Mikulin.

Viasna Human Rights Center