News on the topic: solidarity
27.11.2011 Sakharov Prize Laureates Campaign to Free Bialiatski
On November 23 in Brussels, at the annual conference of Sakharov Prize Laureates, a campaign was started to collect signatures under the open letter demanding immediate release and full rehabilitation of Ales Bialiatski. The campaign was launched by BAJ chair Zhanna Litvina and head of the civil right movement For Freedom Aliaxandr Milinkievich.
26.11.2011 Saint Petersburg police detain participants of picket in support of Ales Bialiatski
Activists of the Russian Memorial human rights NGO Anna Udyarova and Filipp Kostenko were detained by the police while staging a picket of solidarity with Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski outside the Belarusian Consulate Department in Saint Petersburg on 25 November.
26.11.2011 Human rights defenders join in global campaign of support to Ales Bialiatski
On 25 November, activists of numerous FIDH members across the world staged pickets of solidarity with the imprisoned Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski, following a 4.5-year verdict pronounced by Minsk court on 24 November. Cities covered by the campaign include Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, Helsinki, Buenos-Aires, Ankara, Saint Petersburg, Yerevan, Bishkek, Tbilisi, Zagreb, etc.
29.09.2011 Some 200 postcards of support to Ales Bialiatski collected in Warsaw
Some 200 postcards have been collected in a picket of solidarity with Viasna leader Ales Bialiatski outside the Warsaw-based Sofitel Hotel, which hosted the OSCE Human Dimension meeting on 24-28 September.
28.09.2011 Warsaw demands to free Ales Bialiatski
On September 27, representatives of NGO from different countries, which take part in the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, organized a picket to support Ales Bialiatski.
26.09.2011 FIDH President Souhayr Belhassen congratulates Ales Bialiatski
On 25 September, Mrs. Souhayr Belhassen, President of the International Federation for Human Rights, congratulated FIDH Vice-President Ales Bialaitski on his 49th birthday on behalf of all FIDH members.
26.09.2011 Human rights defenders congratulate Ales Bialiatski: Street event in Minsk
On 25 September, the friends and colleagues of Ales Bialiatski staged a festive event in Minsk Nezalezhnastsi Square to congratulate the imprisoned leader of Viasna on his 49th birthday.
19.09.2011 Warsaw activists campaign ahead of Bialiatski’s birthday
On 17 September, a number of Polish NGOs launched a campaign of solidarity with the imprisoned leader of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
16.09.2011 Homel human rights defenders launch campaign “Happy Birthday, Ales Bialiatski!”
On 16 September, Homel human rights defenders Anatol Paplauny and Leanid Sudalenka launched a regional campaign in support to the imprisoned leader of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski marking his birthday due on 25 September.
25.08.2011 Actions of solidarity with Belarus in Stockholm and Malmö
Hundreds of people are taking part in them in both Swedish cities.
16.06.2011 Support prisoners of conscience!
Friends! Our letters to prisons may become a considerable support for the prisoners of conscience, illegally convicted in the criminal cases initiated following the 19 December 2010 events in Minsk. Apart from that, several persons are currently serving sentences pronounced in so-called “anarchists’ case”.
17.01.2009 Solidarity Day: Finkevich and Kastylenka detained
On 16 January, shortly after the end of a solidarity action plainclothes riot police officers detained leader of the Young Belarus movement Artur Finkevich and a YB activist Siarhei Kastylenka. The activists were distributing leaflets containing a list of kidnapped Belarusian journalists and politicians.
16.12.2008 Five youth activists detained in Minsk
Five youth activists of Young Belarus movement were detained in Minsk.<0}
20.11.2008 Warsaw University Students organised action in support of Alyaksandr Barazenka
On November 20, students of Warsaw University held a n information picket in support of political prisoner Alyaksandr Barazenka, activist of the civil initiative “European Belarus”, who studied in Wroclaw.
