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Warsaw - Poland's Foreign Ministry apologised Friday for the diplomatic blunder of handing over a Belarusian activist's banking information to Belarus.
'I apologise in the name of Poland,' Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski wrote on his Twitter page, calling the move a 'reprehensible mistake.' Sikorski said Poland would 'double its efforts' to bring democracy to the country.
Polish prosecutors handed over banking information of activist Ales Bialiatski despite being advised not to answer such requests from the Belarusian regime, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Bialiatski, the head of the rights center Viasna in Belarus, was arrested on tax-evasion charges on August 4. Commentators said his arrest - which was criticised by the European Parliament and human rights organizations - likely came because of his activism work.
Politicians in Warsaw said it was 'scandalous' that Poland gave such information to Belarus, considering its own history of living under authoritarianism.
They said the move damaged the opposition's trust in Poland, a staunch supporter of democracy in Belarus.
The banking information contributed to Bialiatski's arrest, said the Belarusian opposition and non-governmental groups.
Prosecutors explained the move, saying that Belarus did not indicate that Bialiatski was an activist when it requested the banking information.
The Foreign Ministry was incredulous about that explanation.
'It's as if the Belarusian regime was supposed to say: yes, we're going after this man because he's fighting for democracy,' Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki told broadcaster TVN 24.
President Alexander Lukashenko has ruled Belarus almost unchallenged since taking control of the country in a 1994 coup.
A wave of arrests have followed his disputed victory in the December presidential elections.
