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For Free Belarus: An evening with Mikalai Statkevich and Maryna Adamovich

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: October 3, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Debate with the Belarusian pro-democracy politician Mikalai Statkevich, a former political prisoner and opposition presidential candidate, and his wife, the activist and human rights campaigner Maryna Adamovich, about the current situation in Belarus.

After Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner of 2010 presidential elections, Belarusians took to the streets to protest against the rigging of the vote. The Lukashenko regime responded with arrests and brutally quelled the demonstration. Statkevich was subsequently sentenced to six years in prison. He was one of six political prisoners released by Lukashenko last year, as a consequence of which the EU lifted most of its sanctions against Belarus. Lukashenko is again showing a friendly face to Europe and last year two representatives of opposition groups made it into the lower house of the Belarusian parliament for the first time. Does this mean that liberalisation has finally arrived? Or is it just a temporary thaw that will be followed by a new “freeze”?

Petra Procházková will chair the discussion and Kryścina Šyjanok will interpret.

In cooperation with the Slavonic Library in Prague, the East European Club and the Student Solidarity Movement. 

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