{"id":15558,"date":"2024-05-16T10:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T10:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/?p=15558"},"modified":"2024-05-16T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T10:10:05","slug":"ales-byalyaczki-stau-ganarovym-syabram-narvezhskaga-pena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2024\/05\/16\/ales-byalyaczki-stau-ganarovym-syabram-narvezhskaga-pena.html","title":{"rendered":"Ale\u015b Bialacki became an honorary member of PEN Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 15, political prisoner, human rights defender and member of PEN Belarus <strong>Ale\u015b Bialacki<\/strong> became an honorary member of PEN Norway.<\/p>\n<p>PEN Norway <a href=\"https:\/\/norskpen.no\/nyheter\/nytt-aeresmedlem-i-norsk-pen-ales-bjaljatski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noindex noopener\">states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ale\u015b Bialacki is called the &#8220;pillar of the human rights movement in Eastern Europe&#8221;, he has been promoting democracy and human rights in Belarus since the 1980s. His commitment to democracy and human rights inspires millions of people, including those who work at PEN Norway. The Nobel laureate is appointed an honorary member because he is constantly fighting for himself and his freedom, as well as for everyone who wants a democratic future in Belarus &#8211; and this fight requires our support.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ale\u015b&#8217;s wife <strong>Natalla Pin\u010duk<\/strong> was present at the awarding of the honorary title. Natalla does not know whether Ale\u015b will be able to receive the message in prison, but still believes that it will give him strength:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By appointing Ale\u015b an honorary member of PEN Norway, you show him solidarity, support and recognition. I don&#8217;t know when it will be possible to deliver the news, but this appointment testifies to the community among writers \u2013 and to the fact that the whole free world remembers him. PEN Norway becomes the voice of Ale\u015b in the world, which means that all attempts to silence Ale\u015b are meaningless.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PEN Belarus calls to support Ale\u015b and other Belarusian political prisoners around the world.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/tag\/people-of-word\">People of Word in Prison<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2021\/10\/28\/ales-byalyaczki.html\">Ale\u015b Bialacki<\/a> on our website.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: spring96.org.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 15, political prisoner, human rights defender and member of PEN Belarus Ale\u015b Bialacki became an honorary member of PEN Norway. PEN Norway states: &#8220;Ale\u015b Bialacki is called the &#8220;pillar of the human rights movement in Eastern Europe&#8221;, he has been promoting democracy and human rights in Belarus since the 1980s. His commitment to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":15561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4092,4201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-friends","category-solidarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15564,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558\/revisions\/15564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}