Belarusian journalist Iryna Khalip awarded with the 2013 PEN/Pinter prize "writer of courage"

London, AP. Belarusian journalist awarded. Iryna's speech (update)

"Iryna Khalip, a correspondent for Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, shares the 2013 PEN/Pinter prize with British playwright Tom Stoppard. ---  Iryna was detained and beaten in December 2010 after demonstrating against President Alexander Lukashenko

and alleged electoral fraud, and later convicted of disrupting public order. ---  The prize goes jointly to a British writer and a "writer of courage" who has faced persecution."

Read the whole text:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/belarus-journalist-wins-pinter-writers-prize


Svaboda.org:
http://www.svaboda.org/content/article/25129702.html
"Інфармацыйныя агенцтвы цытуюць словы Ірыны Халіп: 

«Гэта вялікі гонар для мяне, але, больш за тое, гэта адзнака справядлівай барацьбы народу Беларусі за правы чалавека і за нашую годнасьць».


Charter 97:
http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2013/10/8/77129/
"According to Sir Tom Stoppard, Iryna Khalip deserves the recognition of her courage for criticizing the authoritarian regime, despite intimidations and imprisonment."






Iryna's speech:
http://www.englishpen.org/belarus-iryna-khalip-accepts-2013-penpinter-prize/
"I have to start my short speech with the name of Anna Politkovskaya. Seven years ago this day she was killed. She was a courageous journalist, a person who cared and my colleague. ---- Try to imagine a room with me, my little son and two KGB officers watching us 24 hours a day. I’m not allowed to work, write letters, have any contacts with the outside world. So we are looking at old photos with my son, I don’t want him to forget how his dad looks." 

Photo: KL
(Grattis, віншую Iryna!)