Written by : Ruth Smeeth
Letter to Rt Hon Dominic Raab on Andrei Aliaksandrau
Rt. Hon. Dominic Raab MP First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Dear Foreign Secretary, Earlier this week, one of Index on Censorship’s friends and former colleague, journalist Andrei Aliaksandrau, was arrested in Minsk along with his partner, Irina Zlobina. We are extremely alarmed at the news of […] Letter to the ambassador of Belarus on Andrei Aliaksandrau
Dear HE Ambassador Yermalovich, Index on Censorship expresses our alarm at the arrest in Belarus of our friend and former colleague, journalist Andrei Aliaksandrau. As you will be aware Aliaksandrau was arrested along with his partner, Irina Zlobina, in Minsk on Wednesday 13 January 2021. We understand that they are both being held incommunicado in […] The week that tested the boundaries of free speech
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