The Ice Hockey World Championship is over. Bison Volat, the official mascot of the tournament, has left for the Byelavyezhskaya Pushcha, foreigners are packing their bags, “the Akrestsin team” are quietly going home, and activists who wanted to avoid preventive arrests began creeping out of their holes. Palitviazni.info learned what life like was during a hockey “celebration” for those who were fortunate not to become the hostages of the championship. Read more.. »
Valiantsin Stefanovich, Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, in his interview for spring96.org, tells about the human rights results of the Ice Hockey World Championship, which was held in Minsk from 9 to 25 May.
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What campaigns were held during the Ice Hockey World Championship to support political prisoners? Is civil society in Belarus doing its best to support political prisoners? We spoke with Yulia Liashkevich, an expert in advertising, who initiated several bright ideas in favor of Belarusian society, to learn about the hashtag campaign, the prison bookmaking, and wondered why the opposition failed to use the opportunity to tell the foreigners about the Belarusian reality. Read more.. »
A new online project was launched before the Ice Hockey World Championship to help simplify your stay in the detention center in Akrestsin Street. Palitviazni.info talked with the creators of the website posidelki.in to see if there is a need for such resources and how Belarusians react to this idea. Read more.. »
On the eve of the Ice Hockey World Championship former political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets was summoned for a “preventive” conversation to the Frunzenski district police department of Minsk. The conversation took place on 8 May and lasted only 20 minutes. Read more.. »
Prison officers did everything to prevent meeting the political prisoner outside the correctional facility. Read more.. »
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