On February 26, about twenty Belarusians and Poles took part in a monthly solidarity rally with political prisoner journalist Andrzej Poczobut and all Belarusian political prisoners. For the first time, the voivode of Podlasie, Jacek Brzozowski, took the floor at the rally.
Every month in the twenties, activists of the Union of Poles in Belarus, who are currently in Bialystok, hold solidarity actions near the monument to Jerzy Popiełuszko with their colleague, Grodno journalist Andrzej Poczobut, who was sentenced to eight years, and all Belarusian political prisoners. Poczobut is serving his sentence in the Novopolotsk colony and there is no good news from there yet, said Marek Zanewski, Deputy chairman of the Union of Poles in Belarus.
The governor of Podlasie Jacek Brzozowski, who took up this position after the parliamentary elections last October, also took part in the action. In an interview with journalists, he stressed its important symbolic meaning – the meaning of solidarity with Andrzej Poczobut and all those repressed by the Lukashenka regime.
Hanna Kietlińska, head of the Podlaskie department of the “Polish Community”, also spoke at the rally. She noted that over the past two years, many people from Belarus have come to Bialystok, and this flow has not stopped until now. Now more and more people who came out of the prisons of Lukashenka are coming. Hanna called on them to contact their “Humanitarian Aid Center” with their cases, promising support, for example, in learning the Polish language or in paperwork. She also asked the participants of the action to offer their own feasible assistance to the center.
