News on the topic: solidarity
26.09.2012 Greetings for Ales Bialiatski: Amnesty International
We wish Ales a quick release and restoration of justice. We respect Ales, admire him and value his work. We wish him a strong health, patience and spiritual strength.
26.09.2012 Greetings for Ales Bialiatski: the Office of Marek Migalski
The Office of the European MP Marek Migalski sent greetings to Ales Bialiatski on 24 September, the day when a conference on Belarus was held in Warsaw:
26.09.2012 Salute to Ales Bialiatski from Human Rights House Foundation
Next week members and partners of the Human Rights House Network representing 100 human rights organizations will meet in Zagreb in Croatia. There will be a vacant chair at all our events. That chair is yours, Ales, and we keep it visible to all where you rightfully should have been today - and as a reminder that you are locked up in prison because of your longstanding, courageous and legitimate human rights work.
26.09.2012 Assembly of NGOs to Bialiatski: “We believe that you will pass this challenge with a smile and the head held high”
Dear Ales! Colleague, comrade in arms and friend. By your dedicated work for the protection of human rights you showed and witnessed your courage, adherence to principles and firmness. You
26.09.2012 Congratulations to Ales Bialiatski at Nezalezhnists Square in Kyiv
The collection of signatures in support of the Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski who turned 50 years on 25 September continued in the center of Kyiv.
26.09.2012 Action in support of Ales Biliatski held in Warsaw
A picket and a prayer for the release of the Belarusian political prisoner took place in Warsaw on 25 September.
26.09.2012 Congratulations to Ales Bialiatski from civil activists from Belarus and Ukraine
Participants and coordinators of the international youth human rights contest among activists from Belarus and Ukraine send warm greetings to Ales Bialiatski from Alushta.
26.09.2012 Greetings for Ales Bialiatski: Ireland, Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Sweden
Such human rights organizations as Front Line (Dublin), People in Peril Association (Bratislava), the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland), Civil Rights Defenders (Sweden) and many others have taken part in the week of congratulations to Ales Bialiatski. Friends, we are grateful to all of you for your support and solidarity!
26.09.2012 Greetings to Ales Bialiatski: Center for Legal Transformation
Friends and colleagues from the Legal Transformation Center sent a self-made postcard to Ales Bialiatski :))
26.09.2012 Ales Bialiatski awarded US Department of State's 2011 Human Rights Defenders Prize
The wife of imprisoned Belarusian human rights defender Alies Bialiatski received the US Department of State's 2011 Human Rights Defenders Award on behalf of her husband in Warsaw on September 25.
24.09.2012 Birthday greetings for Ales Bialiatski from colleagues and friends
We would like to thank all those who have joined Ales Bialiatski’s birthday week. Viasna keeps receiving cordial letters and photos with birthday greetings for Ales: from partners, colleagues, friends and other people who are concerned about the fate of the imprisoned human rights defender.
24.09.2012 Belarusian youth: “Ales! You Are Our Talisman!”
The imprisoned Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski shares his thoughts inspired by the letters of solidarity he keeps receiving in prison: ‘I have received quite a lot of letters from young people lately. And there are many postcards from Vilnius, from the School, too. It is really pleasant: it means that the ideas of human rights protection have resonated with the Belarusian youth, which used to be so nobly described in the poetry of Yanka Kupala.
22.09.2012 Colors of childhood for Ales Bialiatski
Ales Bialiatski often writes that he keeps receiving many postcards from various offices of Amnesty International, mainly from Great Britain and the Netherlands. One of his recent letters Ales told of motley fireworks of postcards from Dutch children, who painted his prison days in emotional colors.
22.08.2012 Ales Bialiatski spoken about in Thailand
Mr. Shiwei Ye, activist of the International Federation for Human Rights’ office in Bangkok, attended a meeting on the situation with human rights in Belarus to tell about the FIDH’s imprisoned vice-president Ales Bialiatski.
21.08.2012 German MP: charge against Anton Surapin must be completely withdrawn
20. August 2012 – Release of Anton Suryapin Photographer Anton Suryapin and another young man, Siarhei Basharymau, who were arrested by the KGB following the July 4 teddy bear drop were released on 17 August on their own recognizance.