ALT Dear Mr. Bialiatski, The hardships faced by the Belarusian people have not gone unnoticed. The world sees your suffering: last year, when you were given a lengthy prison sentence for your human rights activities in Belarus; last month, when Aliaksandr Kulinich became the sixth political prisoner to die in two years’ time, and on so many other days, when news breaks of a fresh injustice against the Belarusian people. And our thoughts are with you today, on the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus. I am writing this open letter to express my support to you and your Viasna colleagues Uladzimir Labkovich and Valiantsin Stefanovic, indeed to everyone in your remarkable organisation, and to all other political prisoners in Belarus. More than 1,400 people in total – many of them women – are currently behind bars, including journalists, human rights defenders, trade unionists and cultural workers. These are people who are standing up for the truth, but above all,