This is Yahien Alhovik from Mahiliou. Security forces arrested him for the unimaginable crime - he 'liked' posts against the war. Police forced him to record an apology video saying that 'this should not be done in such difficult times.'

It's not Chechnya, it is #Belarus

I am a fan of diplomacy, but it requires two to tango. Russia is obviously not a dancing partner & was never interested in de-escalation. No wonder it pulled out of a grain deal. It's crucial not to allow it to blackmail the rest and counter its propaganda in the affected nations

Commemorations of the Night of the Shot Poets took place in more than 20 countries, from Brazil to Georgia. It was the night in 1937:more than 100 intellectuals were shot by the NKVD in Minsk. We can't be in #Belarus but we remember. It is our history that unites us even in exile

#Belarus 51-year-old Siarhei Hardzievich spent 1,5 years in jail. He was released yesterday. All political prisoners must be released. It’s so heartbreaking to think how many innocent, heroic people are behind bars.Every day is a reminder that nothing is over before they are free

In #Norway , students spread condoms with these portraits. Lukashenka found himself portrayed on a condom, too

#Belarus Just on this night in 1937, NKVD in Minsk killed in prison more than a hundred representatives of the Belarusian intelligentsia and national elites, including 22 writers. We lost the brightest. We commemorate them today on the 'Night of Shot Poets' by reading their poems

It's a mistake to think that nothing is happening in #Belarus . Read this TIME article on the efforts to revive the Belarusian language inside the country. And there are more. Totally loved them using our Latin version of the language for Biełaruś & Miensk
time.com/6224762/fight-…

#Belarus Lukashenka shouted at Nikol Pashinyan at the CSTO summit. Such a reaction shows you how uncomfortable they are about the escalation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The dictator in Minsk, as always, is Putin's megaphone

#Belarus Our biggest challenge is that we don’t always have the direct contact with those inside the system. Disintegrating the elites should be the priority. Just now we heard that the employee of the Ministry of Education was detained for allegedly leaking data to Telegram Messenger

Prague now

#Belarus Even the regime can't deny that strikes have been happening in at least three cities, namely Brest, Baranovichi & Pinsk. The representative of the Brest local administration says that they had spoken with individual entrepreneurs who went on strike. An immediate reaction

These are pictures taken today all over #Belarus . In at least six cities, individual businessmen went on strike, protesting against the government’s prices regulation. As you know, the regime recently banned inflation in my country, and private businesses don’t know how to work

#Belarus Border guards seem to be really enjoying their business of helping migrants cross the border with the EU. This video was shared by #Poland ’s State Border Control. There is now less attention to this weaponisation of migration by the regime but it is still happening

#Belarus Very interesting. In Baranavichy, all over the city, the private shops with clothes and other things were closed. Small businesses owners said they would not open until the authorities explain the new ban on inflation and how they should work under these conditions