Salidarnasts launches Week of Political Prisoner campaign

The Committee for the Protection of the Repressed Salidarnasts launched today an information campaign of solidarity with political prisoners in Belarus under the name Week of Political Prisoner.

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Political Prisoner’s Week – new information solidarity campaign (photo)

It has been launched after a press conference in Minsk today.

The campaign should awaken the public, civil activist Ina Kulei said:

“This is a marathon aimed at describing every political prisoner in detail. We need to find something that will interest everyone so that people could read about it on the Internet, in newspapers or hear about it, that would help people understand the political prisoners’ fate and to write letters of support to them.”

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Uladzimir Liemiesh: "Solidarity letters play a big role in our life"

"Letters from captivity", the exhibition continues at the office of the BPF (Str. Chernyshevsky, 3-39).  One of the organizers, activist Uladzimir Liemiesh, notes that after 19 December, 2010 events , when dozens of opponents of the regime were inprisoned, writing letters played a big role in the long-suffering life of political prisoners in our country's history. For a long time the prisoners had almost no information, the answers were quite a rare joy and a history that is worth sharing.

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