General documents - Statement by the Chair of the D-BY on the renewed attacks on activists of the Polish minority in Belarus - Delegation for relations with Belarus

Brussels, 14 April 2021 - "I condemn the renewed and malicious attacks by Aliaksandr Lukashenka's regime on representatives of the Polish minority in Belarus, which are part of a coordinated anti-Polish and anti-EU propaganda by the regime.

I strongly deplore the fact that Mr Andrzej Pisalnik, prominent Polish activist and Secretary of board of the ZPB - who was invited to give his testimony during the today's meeting of the Delegation for relations with Belarus, was arrested together with his wife Inessa Todryk-Pisalnik, right before the Delegation's meeting, in an outrageous attempt to prevent him from giving a testimony about the scale of repressions against the Polish minority in Belarus to the representatives of the EU institutions. [...]