Last week we were happily able to scratch three names from our list of hostage-prisoners who were included in the release of 14 people from Belarusian prisons: Ihar Karnei, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, and Vladislav Yesypenko.

Sadly, though, Ales Bialiatski and Ihar Losik remain imprisoned, along with too many others who were, for reasons that were not explained, denied release at this time.

So this week we congratulate those who were freed: Karnei, Tsikhanouski, Yesypenko, and eleven others whose names have not been made public. And we continue to support those who await their turns:

Prisoners of War:

The People of Ukraine
The Azov 12

Political Prisoners:

The Azerbaijan 7:
— Farid Mehralizada
— Ulvi Hasanli
— Sevinj Abbasova (Vagifqiai)
— Mahammad Kekalov
— Hafiz Babali
— Nargiz Absalamova
— Elnara Gasimova

David Barnes
Ales Bialiatski (in Belarus)
Gordon Black
Andrei Chapiuk (in Belarus)
Antonina Favorskaya
Konstantin Gabov
Robert Gilman
Stephen James Hubbard
Sergey Karelin
Ihar Karnei (in Belarus)
Vadim Kobzev
Darya Kozyreva
Artyom Kriger
Uladzimir Labkovich (in Belarus)
Michael Travis Leake
Aleksei Liptser
Ihar Losik (in Belarus)
Mikita Losik (in Belarus)
Daniel Martindale
Farid Mehralizada (in Azerbaijan)
Nika Novak
Marfa Rabkova (in Belarus)
Nadezhda Rossinskaya (a.k.a. Nadin Geisler)
Igor Sergunin
Dmitry Shatresov
Robert Shonov
Eugene Spector
Valiantsin Stafanovic (in Belarus)
Siarhei Tsikhanouski (in Belarus)
Laurent Vinatier
Robert Romanov Woodland
Vladislav Yesypenko (in Crimea, Ukraine)
Yuras Zyankovich (in Belarus)

. . . and any others I may have overlooked.

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The work continues . . . you are not forgotten.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
6/29/25