The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Czech Parliament called for the release of Ales Bialiatski and all political prisoners in Belarus

In a resolution adopted on November 7, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies called on the Lukashenka regime to immediately and unconditionally release Nobel Peace Prize and Václav Havel Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski. The Committee also called for the release of nearly 1,300 other political prisoners, an end to political repression in Belarus and the persecution of democratic dissidents in exile.

Committee member Hayato Okamura, who drafted the resolution, compared the imprisoned Viasna leader to former Czech dissident and president Václav Havel:

"This literary scholar has been in prison for more than three years. It is absolutely outrageous that the Belarusian dictatorship decided to imprison a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in this way".

He praised the fact that, in the end, all the deputies present at the meeting of both the Subcommittee on Democracy and Human Rights Abroad and, a few days later, the Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed their support for the unjustly imprisoned in Belarus and adopted a resolution to that effect.

Separately, the document emphasizes that "the holding of the presidential elections scheduled for January 26, 2025 in the Republic of Belarus under the current conditions, when candidates from the previous presidential elections are still unjustly imprisoned, is unacceptable and its results cannot be considered legitimate."