No Easing of Belarus Repression
Submitted by admin on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 20:56
In the cold, outside the human rights defence body the Council of Europe, this handful of exiles from Belarus shout: "Stop Lukashenko!" (president of what critics call Europe's last dictatorship).
They are in Strasbourg to try to shake up European decision-makers; they say sanctions have failed to reduce repression in their country.
Demonstrating in Belarus led Pavel Khivuk to prison there twice, and then political refugee asylum in France.
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