Solidarity action at Tutaka Festival: Tsikhanouskaya, Latushka, Ivulin, and others support imprisoned journalists

The Tuta­ka Fes­ti­val was held in Pod­lasie, just at the Belaru­sian bor­der. This place has been par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant for the Belaru­sians for decades, the alter­na­tive and rock music fes­ti­val Baso­vishcha was held here mul­ti­ple times. And now, thanks to such events, Belaru­sian nation­al cul­ture sur­vives.

The fes­ti­val con­sist­ed of sev­er­al days of per­for­mances, speech­es by politi­cians and pub­lic fig­ures, and con­certs.

The sol­i­dar­i­ty marathon was also one of the pro­posed activ­i­ties. As a sign of sup­port for the impris­oned jour­nal­ists, the par­tic­i­pants in the action – politi­cians, musi­cians, cul­tur­al fig­ures, reporters – held up their por­traits.

Svi­at­lana Tikhanouskaya held a por­trait of Andrei Ali­ak­san­drau, Pavel Latush­ka drew atten­tion to Kse­nia Lut­ski­na, Kat­siary­na Vadanosa­va and Yury Styl­s­ki held a por­trait of Kat­siary­na Andree­va (Bakhvala­va), Ali­ak­san­dr Ivulin expressed sol­i­dar­i­ty with Mary­na Zolata­va, and Marhary­ta Lyauchuk held a por­trait of Ali­ak­san­dr Liu­bianchuk.

The sit­u­a­tion of impris­oned jour­nal­ists remains in the spot­light, despite the regime’s coun­ter­work. The par­tic­i­pants of the marathon asked how else they can help.

“I am tak­ing part in the marathon in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists because I share the pain of the par­ents, chil­dren, and rel­a­tives of these brave peo­ple,” said Svi­at­lana Tsikhanouskaya. “They are real pro­fes­sion­als, that’s why they have suf­fered from the actions of the regime. Every day of their life in prison means their plans unful­filled, their chil­dren not hugged, tears in the eyes of their fam­i­ly mem­bers. Togeth­er we can bring the day of free­dom for all polit­i­cal pris­on­ers in Belarus clos­er. Let’s fight for the truth! Let’s stay togeth­er!”

Anoth­er par­tic­i­pant in the marathon was the artist Yana Shostak. She has repeat­ed­ly made artis­tic per­for­mances. For one minute she would scream to attract atten­tion to polit­i­cal pris­on­ers, and this sig­nal to the world is clear­er than many words.

We remind you that the marathon in sol­i­dar­i­ty with Belaru­sian impris­oned jour­nal­ists start­ed on 3 May in Vil­nius with a joint action of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists and the Union of Jour­nal­ists of Lithua­nia.

Ger­many, Swe­den, Fin­land, Den­mark, and oth­er coun­tries have already joined the action.

BAJ calls on col­leagues all over the world to sup­port the sol­i­dar­i­ty action!

You can print por­traits of impris­oned col­leagues, take pic­tures with them in rec­og­niz­able places of your city and pub­lish them on social media with the tags #СвабодуЖурналістам and #BecauseThe­Jour­nal­ist, and also send us to office@baj.media or intercomm@baj.media.

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