Aliaksandras Filipenkas was arrested by the police during a raid on his apartment on Thursday, and later “he was given 13 days for sharing some article from “Zerkal”, his son Saša Filipenka reported on his Facebook account.
Zerkalo is an out-of-country website that criticizes the government of the country’s authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko.
S. Filipenka, who does not live in Belarus, is a popular writer and one of the most prominent voices opposed to A. Lukashenka, who has cracked down on dissidents and independent media since 2020, when a wave of massive protests broke out.
These protests began after disputed presidential elections, the results of which gave another term to A. Lukashenka, who has been in power since 1994.
He took strict measures against the protesters – the police detained about 35,000 people. people and beat thousands. Many important opposition figures fled the country, including Sviatlana Cichanouskaja, who ran against him in the elections. Others, such as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Alesis Bialiacki, founder of the human rights group Viasna, were imprisoned.
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2024-09-23 01:10:30
