Category: Contribution to Civil Rights
Authors: Olga Loginova, Ottavia Spaggiari
USA/Italy
Walking Reminders of Atrocities.' Survivors of State Brutality in Belarus Share Their Stories
The original publication is available via the following link:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2022/3/17/how-dissent-was-crushed-in-belarus
Al Jazeera
To this day, Nina* blames herself for taking her boyfriend Alex* to the protest in downtown Minsk. It was the evening of August 9, 2020, and earlier that day, the 25-year-olds had voted in their first presidential election. Like millions of other Belarusians, they had hoped their votes would change the trajectory of their country. Read more