Redatelji i glumci pozivaju Srbiju da ne izručuje bjeloruskog aktivistu, tvrde da mu prijeti “mučenje i smrtna kazna”

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Gnyot, redatelj koji je bio ključna osoba u organiziranju sportaša za suprotstavljanje diktatorskoj vladavini Aleksandra Lukašenka, uhapšen je po dolasku u Srbiju prošle godine nakon što je Bjelorusija preko Interpola izdala nalog za njegovo hapšenje zbog optužbi za utaju poreza. Kaže da su optužbe političke.

Gnyot je proveo sedam mjeseci u zatvoru u Beogradu prije nego što je u junu pušten u kućni pritvor. Srbijanski sud će u utorak saslušati njegovu posljednju žalbu u slučaju, nakon što je nekoliko odluka išlo protiv njega. Ako ova žalba ne uspije, Gnyot bi mogao biti deportiran u bilo kojem trenutku, uz veto državnog ministra pravosuđa kao posljednju priliku da se izbjegne vraćanje.

“Poznat je po snimanju dokumentarnih snimaka tokom protesta u Bjelorusiji 2020. i snimanju apela sportaša za slobodne i poštene izbore. Zbog tih ga aktivnosti progoni bjeloruski autoritarni režim”, stoji u pismu čiji su potpisnici francuski glumac i predsjednica Europske filmske akademije Juliette Binoche; bjeloruska nobelovka Svetlana Alexievich; ruski redatelj Kirill Serebrennikov; i ukrajinski redatelj Oleh Sentsov, koji je ranije bio politički zatvorenik u Rusiji.

“Srbijanske vlasti trebale bi konzultirati međunarodne organizacije za ljudska prava, koje u ovom slučaju pozivaju na hitno oslobađanje Gnyota, ističući da su optužbe politički motivirane”, rekla je nagrađivana poljska redateljica Agnieszka Holland, koja je također potpisala pismo. “Sada je to pitanje života i smrti za ovog redatelja. Bude li izručen, Andrei se suočava s mučenjem, godinama u neljudskim uvjetima ili gore”.

Bjeloruski glumac sa sjedištem u Velikoj Britaniji Mitya Savelau, koji je organizirao pismo, rekao je da nema sumnje da režim zloupotrebljava Interpol tražeći naloge za hapšenje u političkim slučajevima uprkos zabrani agencije da to čini, maskirajući ih kao gospodarski zločin.

Savelau je ukazao na činjenicu da su 2021. godine vlasti u Minsku pokušale izdati nalog za hapšenje političke čelnice Sviatlane Tsikhanowskaya, koja je pobjegla iz zemlje nakon gušenja protesta 2020. koji su uslijedili nakon njezinog poraza od Lukašenka na predsjedničkim izborima koji su mnogi smatrani namještenim .

“Interpol je odbio proći kroz to, ali je razotkrio taktiku koju je od tada opetovano koristio Lukašenko da pronađe bjeloruske demokratske aktiviste”, rekao je Savelau.

“Nakon predsjedničkih izbora 2020. i Lukašenkovog slamanja demonstranata, između 300.000 do 500.000 Bjelorusa moralo je pobjeći iz zemlje na sigurno. I svi smo u opasnosti da se nađemo u situaciji kao što je Andrej”, dodao je.

U junu su brojni bjeloruski sportaši rekli za Guardian da je Gnyot bio aktivan u organiziranju pokreta sportaša disidenata. “Andrei je igrao veliku ulogu. Mnogi sportaši nisu razumjeli kako organizirati ili napraviti videe, a on nam je puno pomogao”, rekla je Aliaksandra Herasimenia, plivačica koja je 2012. u Londonu osvojila dvije srebrne olimpijske medalje, a kasnije je u odsutnosti osuđena na 12 godina zatvora. Živi u egzilu.

Svjestan da bi protiv njega mogao biti pokrenut kazneni postupak, Gnyot je 2021. napustio Bjelorusiju i kasnije se nastanio na Tajlandu. Uhapšen je na beogradskom aerodromu u oktobru kada je stigao u Srbiju na snimanje televizijske reklame.

U poruci poslanoj iz Beograda, Gnyot je apelirao na srbijanskog ministra pravosuđa da blokira njegovo izručenje ako sud presudi protiv njega, ali je rekao da nakon dugotrajne sudske kalvarije “ne osjeća ništa”.

“U 10 mjeseci čekanja da me pošalju u smrt, svi moji osjećaji su izgorjeli. Borit ću se samo za istinu i pravdu, za svoj život i za živote drugih Bjelorusa, jer nas u diktaturi čeka mučenje i smrt”, rekao je.

Potpisanici:

Mitya Savelau, actor, campaigner, Artists for Andrei Campaign organiser

Volia Chajkouskaya, film producer, film director, co-foundress of the BIFA, Artists for Andrei Campaign organiser

Agnieszka Holland, film director and screenwriter

Juliette Binoche, actress, President of the European Film Academy

Svetlana Alexievich, writer, journalist, laureate of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

Justine Triet, film director, screenwriter

Arthur Harari, screenwriter and actor

Béla Tarr, filmmaker

Sandra Hüller, actress

Matthijs Wouter Knol, CEO European Film Academy

Mark Cousins, film director, producer, writer

Srdjan Dragojević, writer, director

Mike Downey, OBE, producer, Chair European Film Academy 

Margarethe von Trotta, film director, screenwriter and actress

Wim Wenders, filmmaker, playwright and photographer

Yorgos Lanthimos, filmmaker 

Kornel Mundruczó, film and theatre director Dame Vanessa Redgrave DBE, actress

Kirill Serebrennikov, director

Vladimir Perišić, film director

Isabel Coixet, film director and screenwriter 

Lukas Dhont, film director and screenwriter 

Jasmila Žbanić, film director and screenwriter 

Mélanie Laurent, actress and filmmaker 

Damir Ibrahimović, producer

Rebecca O’Brien, producer

David Lan, CBE, playwright, theatre producer and director

Miroslav Terzic, director, writer, producer

Lambert Wilson, actor
Edward Berger, film director and screenwriter,

Cristian Mungiu, film director and screenwriter, producer

Karim Aïnouz, film director and screenwriter

Christine Bacon, co-artistic director, Ice&Fire Theatre

Ken Loach, film director and screenwriter 

Nina Hoss, actress Marco Bellocchio, film director and screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar, film director Pawel Pawlikowski, film director

Victor Kossakovsky, film director

Dennis Ivanov, producer

Oleh Sentsov, film director and screenwriter

Alice Diop, film director and screenwriter

Zar Amir Ebrahimi, actress and filmmaker

Jim Sheridan, film director, screenwriter and producer

Charlotte Wells, film director and screenwriter

Fernando Trueba, film director, screenwriter, producer

José Maria Morales, producer

Elena Manrique, film director and producer 

Aliaksei Paluyan, film director, screenwriter

Nicolai Khalezin M.B.E., co–founder, artistic director, Belarus Free Theatre

Natalia Kaliada M.B.E., co–founder, artistic director, Belarus Free Theatre

Guslagie Malanda, actress 

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, film director and screenwriter

Lars Eidinger, actor

Paula Cons Varela, film director and screenwriter 

Arantxa Echevarria, film director and screenwriter 

Liz Lobato, film director and actress

Darya Zhuk, film director

Branka Bešević Gajić, film & TV director, member of the European Film Academy in Berlin 

Irena Kaciałovič, film critic

Mara Tamkovich, director

Vlada Senkova, film director, screenwriter

Andrei Kutsila, film director

Tanya Hatsura-Yavorska, director, WATCH DOCS Belarus

Biljana Prvanovic, film producer

Sergey Shabohin, artist, editor in chief of KALEKTAR.org

Nikola Ljuca, film and theatre director

Jasper Rischen, filmmaker

Katerina Jebb, artist, photographer

Bojan Vuletic, film director, scriptwriter,  member of European Film Academy, Serbian Union of Film Directors

Sasha Kulak, film director

Aaron Li-Hill, Canadian-American-British visual artist Maryna Yakubovich, actress, theatre director

Maryna Yurevich, actress, theatre director

Siniša Cvetić, film director

Maxim Didenko, theatre director

Aliaksei Vainilovich, actor

Maksim Shved, film director

Janko Baljak, film and TV director, professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade

Stefan Ivančić, film director, producer and festival programmer

Maryna Zdoronkova, actress, theatre director

Maryia Piatrovich, actress

Anna Savchenko, film director

Mikałaj Stońka, actor

Hanna Komar, poet, writer, translator

Pavel Haradnitski, actor, theatre director, musician

Olga Shparaga, philosopher

Sasha Filipenko, writer, journalist Miriam Margolyes, actress

Anton Dolin, film critic and journalist

Galina Altman, composer, musician

Ashley Karaweigh, artistic director Metalore Theatre

Danijel Hočevar, producer

Michael Lockshin, film director, writer

Ognjen Glavonić, writer, director

Boban Skerlić, writer, director

Srdan Golubović, film director

Marko Grba Singh, filmmaker and festival programmer

Maša Nešković, film and TV director

Tanja Brzakovic, film director

Salomé Jashi, film director

Lara Bajraktarevic, production manager

Ena Bajraktarević, producer

Nana Ekvtimishvili,  film director, writer

Mariam Chachia, film director, producer

Taciana Niadbaj, poet, PEN BElarus President, human rights defender, publisher

Mina Leontijević, writer, production coordinator

Jessica Hausner, film director and screenwriter

Jelena Mitrović, producer

Nikolina Vučetić Zečević, producer

Maja Popović Milojević, producer

Čarna Vučinić, producer

Stefan Ivančić, producer

Milan Stojanović, producer

Branislav Trifunović, actor, producer

Nataša Damnjanović, producer

Dušan Vojvodić, producer

Snežana van Houwelingen, producer

Milena Šmigić, producer

Jelena Angelovski, producer

Dragana Jovović, producer

Mirko Bojović, producer

Miloš Pušić, producer

Vuk Ršumović, producer, director

Miloš Ljubomirović, producer, director

Roni Mahadav Levin, festival director

Judith Colell,  Catalan Film Academy 

Davide Abbatescianni, Film Critic, Journalist

Organisations Endorsing the Letter

GFI – Georgian Film Institute

DOCA – Documentary Association Georgia

Ukrainian Film Academy

National Association of filmmakers of Ukraine

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