European Film Academy And More Than 50 Organizations Call To Release Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorskaya

The activist has made a significant contribution to Belarusian culture and the promotion of fundamental values.

The open letter to the European Film Academy has been signed by more than fifty organizations and film festivals. The signatories urge to release Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorskaya and other human rights activists immediately, Radio Svaboda reports.

They note that Hatsura-Yavorskaya has made a significant contribution to the Belarusian culture and promotion of fundamental values.

The Watch Docs Belarus festival, which she organized, "is a member of the global family of human rights film festivals - international human rights film association.

Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorskaya, founder of the Zveno public association and one of the organizers of the "Machine Breathes, but I Do Not" exhibition, was detained on April 6.

As suspected of "financing the riots". This wording was contained in the sanctions for searches, which the day before the employees of the Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee organized in the office of the organization, as well as in the apartment and summer house of the suspect.

The sanction of the mentioned criminal article provides up to three years of imprisonment.

On April 12, Belarusian human rights activists found Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorskaya a political prisoner.

Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorskaya is a mother of four children. She is the organizer of a large number of cultural initiatives, including Watch Docs Belarus, an international festival of documentary films about human rights, which has been held since 2015.

The Zveno association she founded initiated the exhibition "The Machine Breathes, But I Don't," dedicated to the committed work of medical professionals fighting the coronavirus.

However, just a day after the opening, inspectors from the sanitary station and the department of emergency situations arrived, and the exhibit had to be shut down. Those involved in organizing the exhibition were arrested.