In the framework of the Prisoner’s Godparenthood campaign of Libereco, Marek Migalski, Member of European Parliament, stated on the release of Siarhei Kavalenka:
Philipp Mißfelder, Foreign Policy Spokesman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group and Federal Chairman of the Junge Union stated about the new sentence of Zmitser Dashkevich:
Photographer Anton Suryapin and another young man, Siarhei Basharymau, who were arrested by the KGB following the July 4 teddy bear drop were released on 17 August on their own recognizance.
Human rights defender Ales Bialiatski has been imprisoned since August 4th 2011. Therefor, Marieluise Beck, Member of the German Bundestag, and Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Vice-President of the German Bundestag, state:
Bijan Djir-Sarai, Member of the German Bundestag and of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Anton Suryapin and states:
Marieluise Beck, member of German Bundestag stated, about her godparenthood for imprisoned Igor Olinevich in Belarus:
The office of Marek Migalski, Member of the European Parliament, is starting the website www.freekavalenka.org as part of a campaign initiated by Libereco.
Marek Migalski, a substitute to the European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with Belarus, stated:
Joint Statement of Marieluise Beck, Member of German Bundestag, and Marek Migalski, Member of European Parliament.
Mark Kirk, U.S. Senator for Illinois, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Mikolai Autukhovich.
Sari Essayah, member of the European Parliament and the European People’s Party Group, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Mikolai Dziadok.
Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Vice President of the German Bundestag has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Ales Bialiatski and states:
Manfred Weber, Member of the European Parliament and of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for DzmitryNovik.
René Röspel, member of the German-Belarusian Parliamentary Friendship Group, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Fiodar Mirzayanau.
Bärbel Kofler, member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Dzmitry Uss.
Angelika Graf, deputy spokeswoman on human rights and humanitarian aid for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Siarhei Kazakou.
Marek Migalski, Member of European Parliament, today stated his serious concern about the state of health of Dzmitry Bandarenka.
Swiss member of parliament Jean-François Steiert (Social Democrats) adopts a prisoner’s godparenthood for Ilya Vasilevich.
Florian Toncar, deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Eduard Lobau.
Michael Gahler, Member of the European Parliament is becoming godfather of the political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets.
Hans-Gert Pöttering, former president of the European Parliament and chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Ales Kirkevich.
Marina Schuster, spokeswoman on human rights and humanitarian aid for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) parliamentary group in the Bundestag and member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Pavel Vinahradau.
Manuel Sarrazin, Member of the German Bundestag and member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has taken on a prisoner’s godparenthood for Mikita Likhavid.
Philipp Mißfelder, Foreign Policy Spokesman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group and Federal Chairman of the Junge Union takes over a prisoner’s godparenthood for Zmiter Dashkevich.
Franz Thönnes, a Member of the German Bundestag from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentary group, a former parliamentary state secretary and a member of the German Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, takes over a prisoner’s godparenthood for Nikolai Statkevich.
Christoph Strässer, spokesman of Working Group for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Social Democrat’s parliamentary group takes over a prisoner’s godparenthood for Aliaksandr Atroshchankau.
Marek Migalski, a substitute to the European Parliament’s Delegation for relations with Belarus takes over a prisoner’s godparenthood for Dzmitry Bandarenka.
Marieluise Beck, Spokeswoman for Eastern Europe of the German Green parliamentary group takes over a prisoner’s godparenthood for Andrei Sannikov.