On October 27, Belarusian human rights defender Valiantsin Stefanovic was re-elected to the office of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Vice-President at the 41st Congress of FIDH.   

Political prisoner and Viasna human rights defender Valiantsin Stefanovic has been FIDH Vice-President since 2019. On October 41, the 41st session of the Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) began in Paris. During the opening of the Congress, portraits of jailed Viasna members were displayed in the front row, and FIDH Eastern Europe and Central Asia Department Head Ilya Nuzov read Valiantsin’s letter that the defender wrote in prison.

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