Political Prisoners in Belarus: FinnRight International Demands Immediate

Political prisoners in Belarus — FinnRight International demands immediate release of 845 political prisoners including journalists Ihar Ilyash, Dzianis Ivashyn, and Andrej Aliaksandraŭ detained by the Lukashenka regime without charge or trial.

That is the number of political prisoners in Belarus men and women imprisoned not for crimes of violence, not for acts of terrorism, but for the peaceful exercise of rights that every democratic government in the world claims to uphold. Journalists. Activists. Lawyers. Cultural workers. IT specialists. Ordinary people who chose, at enormous personal risk, […]