{"id":4059,"date":"2020-10-26T10:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T10:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2024-02-22T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:53:44","slug":"zayava-rady-rga-belaruski-pen-czentr-i-sakrataryyata-ga-sayuz-belaruskih-pismennikau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2020\/10\/26\/zayava-rady-rga-belaruski-pen-czentr-i-sakrataryyata-ga-sayuz-belaruskih-pismennikau.html","title":{"rendered":"Joint statement of Belarusian PEN and Union of Belarusian Writers about cultural workers’ repressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paviel Sieviaryniec [Pavel Sieviaryniec]<\/strong> and Dzmitry Stroca\u016d [Dzmitry Strotsau]<\/strong> stay behind bars.<\/p>\n

Volha \u0160paraha [Olga Shparaga]<\/strong>, released on October 24 after 15 days in jail, had to leave Belarus after receiving another sentence notice.<\/p>\n

\u0179micier Da\u0161kievi\u010d [Zmitser Dashkevich]<\/strong>, a writer, a former political prisoner, one of the organizers of the \u201cNight of executed poets\u201d and laureate of\u00a0Franci\u0161ak Aliachnovi\u010d\u00a0Literary\u00a0Award\u00a0<\/strong>founded by the Belarusian PEN Center and the Belarusian Service of Radio Liberty\/Radio Free Europe, was detained in Minsk on October 25, (then, on October 27 \u00a0he was sentenced to 15 days in jail)<\/em>. On the same day, Doctor of Historical Sciences Ale\u015b Kra\u016dcevi\u010d<\/strong>, an outstanding researcher of the Grand Duchy of Lithuanian history, laureate of Franci\u0161ak Bahu\u0161evi\u010d Award\u00a0<\/strong>founded by the Belarusian PEN Center, was arrested in Grodno (Ale\u015b is free now, he spent 72 hours in jail, court imposed a fine of 10 basic units – about 106$).<\/em><\/p>\n

On the same day, several cultural figures engaged with the Belarusian PEN Center were detained: a musician of the \u201cLuty sakavik\u201d band and the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theater orchestra Eryk Arlo\u016d-\u0160ymkus [Eryk Arlou-Shymkus] <\/strong>(at Arlo\u016d-\u0160ymkus\u2019s trial, he received a 12 day sentence)<\/em>, camerawoman and filmmaker Alaksandra Babkova [Aliaksandra Babkova] <\/strong>(court imposed a fine of 7 basic units – about 75$)<\/em>, arrested together with her mother, the former director of National State TV and Radio Company Natalia Bibikava <\/strong>(her case has been remanded)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Such actions of the power structures are unduly repressive. They aim to suppress an individual\u2019s rights for freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus.<\/p>\n

Creative organizations have repeatedly called for an end to the violence, but the repression against cultural workers continues to intensify.<\/p>\n

The Council of the RPO \u201cBelarusian PEN Center\u201d and the Secretariat of the NGO \u201cUnion of Belarusian Writers\u201d once again demand to:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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– stop violence against peaceful protesters;<\/p>\n

– release all detained before and after the presidential election 2020;<\/p>\n

– elect new members of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Belarus given the categorical distrust of the current one;<\/p>\n

– hold new transparent democratic elections, with the obligatory participation of representatives of the civil society, independent international and Belarusian observers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Long live the general strike!<\/p>\n

Long live Belarus!<\/p>\n

Belarusian PEN Centre Board<\/em><\/strong>
\nSviatlana Aleksijevi\u010d [Svetlana Alexievich]<\/em>
\nTaciana Niadbaj<\/em>
\nAndrej Chadanovi\u010d [Andrej Khadanovich]<\/em>
\nMaryja Martysievi\u010d [Maryja Martysevich]<\/em>
\nUladzimir Arlo\u016d [Uladzimir Arlou]<\/em>
\nSiarhiej Dubaviec <\/em>
\nLavon Bar\u0161\u010de\u016dski [Liavon Barsceuski]<\/em><\/p>\n

Secretariat of the Union of Belarusian Writers<\/em><\/strong>
\nBarys Piatrovi\u010d [Barys Piatrovich]<\/em>
\nAle\u015b Pa\u0161kievi\u010d [Ales Pashkievich]<\/em>
\nUsievalad Scieburaka [<\/em>Usievalad Scieburaka]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every week we receive alarming reports about the detentions of our friends \u2013 writers, journalists, and cultural workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14640,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/14640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}