Category : Belarus
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 […] Index calls for the release of Andrei Aliaksandrau
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Nina Bahinskaya has been shoved and restrained, arrested and fined half her pension. What drives her to protest? How did Belarus come to be ruled by “the last dictator of Europe”?
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Summer is supposed to be the quiet time for news - not this year “Have you ever felt joy from finding out a loved one is in prison?”
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Women wearing white and carrying flowers have marched on Minsk as part of the protests against election result 
