The Distinguished Alumni Award of the George Marshall Center was presented in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The first winner of the prize established this year was political prisoner human rights activist, the head of Viasna and Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski, who was a student of the Center in 2000.

Ales was represented at the ceremony by his wife Natallia Pinchuk. In her speech, she expressed gratitude to the leadership of the Marshal Center for this act of solidarity with Ales Bialiatski, and through him with all political prisoners of Belarus, with all the Belarusian people who long for liberation from the pro-Moscow dictatorship.

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