{"id":521226,"date":"2026-02-26T23:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=521226"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:47:53","slug":"tsikhanouskaya-meets-organisations-assisting-political-prisoners-in-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-meets-organisations-assisting-political-prisoners-in-warsaw","title":{"rendered":"Tsikhanouskaya Meets Organisations Assisting Political Prisoners in Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> held a meeting in Warsaw with organisations providing assistance to Belarusian political prisoners. Participants discussed coordination of support, funding and preparations for a possible mass release of prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by representatives of the Association of Women Political Prisoners, the \u201cPrytyulay Miane\u201d foundation, the volunteer service of the Viasna Human Rights Centre, Politzek.me, the National Anti-Crisis Management, the Free Belarus Center, the Belarusian Solidarity Center, the Partyzanka initiative, \u201cVolnyya,\u201d the United Transitional Cabinet, and the \u201cA Country to Live In\u201d foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion focused on the state of funding for emergency and long-term assistance, issues related to departure and legalisation, the threat of renewed persecution, available housing resources, as well as the organisation of medical and psychological rehabilitation for those released.<\/p>\n<p>Tsikhanouskaya thanked the organisations for their work and solidarity, noting that the release and rehabilitation of political prisoners remain a priority for her Office.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI am grateful to every organisation and every volunteer for the work you do every day. The release and rehabilitation of political prisoners are our unconditional priority. Our task is to be prepared not reactively, but systematically for a mass release of political prisoners. We need coordination, trust and joint planning to ensure that support is timely and effective. Therefore, today\u2019s meeting is an important step toward more coordinated cooperation in support of political prisoners and their families,\u201d<\/i> the democratic forces\u2019 leader said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_521149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-521149\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-18-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-521149 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-18-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-18-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-18-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-18-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-18-2-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-521149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u0424\u043e\u0442\u043e: t.me\/tsikhanouskaya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_521151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-521151\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-521151 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-19.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-19-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-19-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-19-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-521151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u043c<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_521152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-521152\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-521152 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-20.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-20-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-20-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo_2026-02-26_20-39-20-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-521152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u0424\u043e\u0442\u043e: t.me\/tsikhanouskaya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya held a meeting in Warsaw with organisations providing assistance to Belarusian political prisoners. Participants discussed coordination of support, funding and preparations for a possible mass release of prisoners. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Association of Women Political Prisoners, the \u201cPrytyulay Miane\u201d foundation, the volunteer service of the Viasna Human Rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":521225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69a15a3f27b41.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tsikhanouskaya Meets Organisations Assisting Political Prisoners in Warsaw"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}