UN investigator says Belarus must stop repressing its people
The U.N. human rights investigator for Belarus demanded Monday that the government “stop repressing its own people,” saying at least 20,000 were detained in August and September and hundreds r… https://t.co/SWW4ovpIYn
#Belarus It is not possible to organise the nationwide strike so easily. Workers are being fired,students are being expelled. 1,000 people have been detained because of the strikes in just TWO days. But Belarusians - students, workers, others - keep protesting and striking. pic.twitter.com/0sPgaAiv40
#Belarus Students massively receive documents about their expulsion from universities for participating in protests.Some of them have to pay back their scholarships,which is a high sum forthem.Many lecturers are supporting them and went on strike.Major universities are protesting pic.twitter.com/yMVEj1j0Mw
#Belarus turns up the terror tactics with more explicit threats about the use of guns and other military equipment
Karaev said “There is a war going on. I inform every district militiaman that his life and the happiness of his family depends on how quickly you grab a weapon." https://t.co/P9bO3ZezOw
"My job is first of all to inform every district policeman that your life, the future of your children and the happiness of your wife depends on how quickly and decisively you draw a weapon and determine that you are already being killed, while you are trying to persuade them." https://t.co/16ZuDQEqaq
The most interesting take on Belarus events I've seen in the accessible work by a scholar genre https://t.co/JWgkrUkZ7G by Natalya Chernyshova of @_UoW (a lot brings Hong Kong to mind, eg an early subhead: "Police Brutality as a Catalyst of Political Mobilization") cc @davidakaye
NEW: FOIAed docs obtained by @JasonLeopold from Mueller investigation show new evidence of how Cambridge Analytica & RNC data was handed off to a Russian operative. Mind blowing that days before next US election, we’re still learning this stuff (h/t @zamaanq47) pic.twitter.com/8hcUB1pAn5
#Belarus Riot police are brutal again today. People are being forced to lie on the ground during detentions. Police and unidentified men are also targeting unarmed, peaceful protesters with weapons pic.twitter.com/pZtkPhrxms
There are heavily armored vehicles, as well as water cannons and “Rubezh” mobile roadblocks, on the streets of Minsk. Three metro stations are closed. Mobile internet is off. Minsk meets Sunday. pic.twitter.com/IytTVXFKwW
My latest for piece on the current role of civil society in #Belarus, and what it will mean in the future. Alternative structures of society are being created at the moment. These structures will eventually take over the current dysfunctional politicshttps://t.co/NpZeDfMQsp
NOV 6 - Russian firms have stepped in to prop up Lukashenka in Belarus. @anders_aslund, @JohnEdHerbst, @DirkSchuebel, Dr. Katerina Bornukova, Dr. Aleksandr Chubrik, and Dr. Vladislav Inozemtsev discuss the impact of Russian investment in Belarus. https://t.co/f5qq3atzoy
#Oped What would it take for the Belarusian protests to succeed in removing Lukashenko from power? @grudkev takes a look at what has happened in the Belarus protests and what may lay in store for the embattled nationhttps://t.co/8Xdlld6plS
Culture wars should not be confused with the struggle for liberal democracy and rule of law in Central Europe. If it is, unfriendly actors like Russia may gain a foothold, @DaliborRohac and @LanceKokonos write. https://t.co/M9hAgNWKOR
According to the report there have been « massive and systematic » human rights abuses in #Belarus in recent months, and there is a clear link between them and election fraud https://t.co/7XPQSnOS9I
#EU imposed sanctions on the president of Belarus and 14 other officials over their roles in the security crackdown launched during protests of the country's contested August presidential election. https://t.co/bC646HY5a9
#Belarus Instead of putting people inside a police station or detention centre, police and guards are forcing them to stand outside, in cold, hands up or behind their back. It’s been around nine hours of standing. New numbers: at least 913 people have been detained today. Insane pic.twitter.com/xb8M7f9R97
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Sorry if repeats
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/28/2020 - 8:47am
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/30/2020 - 4:43pm
Our own revolution, lest we forget
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/31/2020 - 7:48am
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/01/2020 - 7:33am
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 5:29pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 8:07pm
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 11/05/2020 - 4:22pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 11/05/2020 - 10:15pm
This seems to belong here(?)
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 9:13am
hah hah, ba-da-boom; I missed this when you first posted. Wilson has such talent at deadpan, should be on SNL (which was great tonite, BTW.)
by artappraiser on Sun, 11/08/2020 - 1:21am
Lukashenko sanctions (then Trump?)
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/08/2020 - 12:38am
by artappraiser on Mon, 11/09/2020 - 2:04am