Parliamentarians of Council of Europe nominate Ales Bialiatski for Nobel Peace Prize
Doc. 12854
25
January 2012
In support of the awarding of the Nobel Peace
Price to Ales Bialiatski, Belarusian Human Rights Defender
Written
Declaration No 508
This written declaration commits only the
members who have signed it
We, parliamentarians of the member
states of the Council of Europe, strongly support the idea of
awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the distinguished Belarusian
activist and the human rights defender - Ales Bialiatski.
Ales
Bialiatski, sentenced to 4,5 years of hard labour, has never been a
politician. His only fault is that, being a sensitive person, he
stood alongside the victims of the antidemocratic regime, helped them
and took care of their families. We demand his release.
The
People of the Free Europe will never abandon the citizens of Belarus,
who are fully entitled to exercise the same rights as we do.
Signed
(see overleaf)
Signed: 1
HALICKI Andrzej, Poland,
EPP/CD
BECK Marieluise, Germany, ALDE
BIEDROŃ Robert,
Poland, NR
BIERECKI Grzegorz, Poland, NR
ČIGĀNE
Lolita, Latvia, EPP/CD
CORLĂŢEAN Titus, Romania, SOC
ÉKES
József, Hungary, EPP/CD
FARINA Renato, Italy,
EPP/CD
FROMMELT Doris, Liechtenstein, EPP/CD
FRUNDA
György, Romania, EPP/CD
GHILETCHI Valeriu, Republic of
Moldova, EPP/CD
GIRZYŃSKI Zbigniew, Poland, EDG
GÓRCZYŃSKI
Jarosław, Poland, EPP/CD
HAUPERT Norbert, Luxembourg,
EPP/CD
HERASYM'YUK Olha, Ukraine, EPP/CD
HERKEL Andres,
Estonia, EPP/CD
IWIŃSKI Tadeusz, Poland, SOC
KAMIŃSKI
Mariusz, Poland, EDG
KOVÁCS Elvira, Serbia,
EPP/CD
LĪBIŅA-EGNERE Inese, Latvia, EPP/CD
MAYER
Edgar, Austria, EPP/CD
NAGY Gábor Tamás, Hungary,
EPP/CD
NEGELE Gebhard, Liechtenstein, EPP/CD
NEUGEBAUER
Fritz, Austria, EPP/CD
NYKIEL Mirosława, Poland,
EPP/CD
PAPADIMITRIOU Elsa, Greece, EPP/CD
POSTANJYAN
Zaruhi, Armenia, EPP/CD
POURBAIX-LUNDIN Marietta de, Sweden,
EPP/CD
RADZISZEWSKA Elżbieta, Poland, EPP/CD
ROGACKI
Adam, Poland, NR
SANTINI Giacomo, Italy, EPP/CD
SCHÄDLER
Leander, Liechtenstein, EPP/CD
SCHOU Ingjerd, Norway,
EPP/CD
SOBOLEV Serhiy, Ukraine, EPP/CD
SZABÓ Vilmos,
Hungary, SOC
VAREIKIS Egidijus, Lithuania, EPP/CD
VEJKEY
Imre, Hungary, EPP/CD
VOLONTÈ Luca, Italy, EPP/CD
WACH
Piotr, Poland, EPP/CD
WADEPHUL Johann, Germany,
EPP/CD
ZINGERIS Emanuelis, Lithuania,
EPP/CD
__________________
Total = 41
1
EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party
SOC: Socialist Group
ALDE:
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
EDG: European Democratic Group
UEL:
Group of the Unified European Left
NR: not
registered in a group
