{"id":8183,"date":"2021-08-06T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T13:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/?p=8183"},"modified":"2021-08-07T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T07:42:02","slug":"zayava-ab-pryznanni-taczczyany-vadalazhskaj-i-uladzimira-maczkevicha-palitznyavolenymi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/2021\/08\/06\/zayava-ab-pryznanni-taczczyany-vadalazhskaj-i-uladzimira-maczkevicha-palitznyavolenymi.html","title":{"rendered":"Release political prisoners Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya and Uladzimir Matskevich!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On August 4, after several raids, the police detained <strong>Uladzimir Matskevich<\/strong>, a philosopher, methodologist and public figure, <strong>Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya<\/strong>, sociologist, senior analyst at the Center for European Transformation and expert of the analytical group of the Agency for Humanitarian Technologies, <strong>Aksana Shelest<\/strong>, senior analyst at the Center for European Transformation, and <strong>Ulad Vialichka<\/strong>, an expert on organizational development and public figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Uladzimir Matskevich<\/strong> and <strong>Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya<\/strong> are still being held in a temporary detention facility in Minsk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In this regard, we, representatives of the human rights community, declare that: the continuing intimidation and arrests of civil society representatives, arbitrary deprivation of liberty have become a common practice of the authorities expected to ensure law and order in a democratic society. Freedom and security of person, one of the fundamental human rights, have ceased to be perceived by the authorities as unshakable and subject to respect and protection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We believe that the <strong>imprisonment of Matskevich and Vadalazhskaya<\/strong>, famous researchers and public figures, was triggered solely by their <strong>political beliefs<\/strong>, and in connection with the <strong>non-violent exercise of their rights and freedoms<\/strong> guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The detained researchers are therefore <strong>political prisoners<\/strong>, in accordance with paragraph 3.1 (a) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/spring96.org\/files\/misc\/politprisoner-guidelines-final_en.pdf\" class=\"count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noindex noopener\">Guidelines on the Definition of Political Prisoners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>We call on the Belarusian authorities to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>immediately release political prisoners Uladzimir Matskevich and Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya and stop criminal prosecution against them;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>immediately release all political prisoners and stop political repression in the country.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Human Rights Center &#8220;Viasna&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Legal Initiative<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Belarusian Helsinki Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Belarusian Association of Journalists<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Belarusian Documentation Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Human Constanta<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Lawtrend<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Belarus PEN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,4093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statement","category-news","category-creative-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8189,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183\/revisions\/8189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}