A famous Belarusian dissident creator mentioned Friday that his father has been sentenced to 2 weeks in jail for reposting an article from an opposition web site.
BELARUS ARRESTS DISSIDENT AUTHOR’S FATHER ON ‘UNCLEAR GROUNDS’
Alexander Filipenko was seized by police Thursday in a raid on his condominium and later “given 13 days for reposting some form of article from Zerkalo,” his son Sasha Filipenko mentioned on Fb. Zerkalo is a web site based mostly outdoors the nation that’s essential of the authoritarian authorities of President Alexander Lukashenko.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a gathering on the work of the economic system within the present yr in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Picture through AP)
Sasha Filipenko, who lives outdoors Belarus, is a well-liked novelist and one of the vital outstanding voices opposing Lukashenko, who has harshly cracked down on dissent and unbiased media since a wave of giant protests broke out in 2020.
These protests began after a disputed presidential election whose outcomes gave one other time period to Lukashenko, who has dominated since 1994.
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Lukashenko unleashed harsh measures towards the protesters, with police detaining round 35,000 folks and beating hundreds. Many main opposition figures fled the nation, together with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who ran towards him within the election. Others have been jailed, reminiscent of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, founding father of the human rights group Viasna.
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