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“I have just called Dzmitras Pratasevičius to express the full solidarity of the EU with the Pratasevičius family and my sympathy as a father. Once again, I call on the Belarusian authorities to release his son Raman immediately, [jo merginą] Sofia Sapega and all the other political prisoners, “wrote the head of EVS on Twitter.
On Sunday, a Ryanair plane flying from Athens to Vilnius reportedly landed in Minsk due to an alleged bomb threat. R. Pratasevičius, one of the founders of the opposition information channel Nexta, and his daughter S. Sapega, a Russian citizen studying at the European University of Humanities in Vilnius, were arrested there.
Last year, the founders of Nexta, Sciapan Pucil, 22, and R. Pratasevich, 26, were included in the list of “persons involved in terrorist activities” by the Belarusian authorities, and the channel itself was declared “. extremist “and ordered to be blocked.
Following Belarus’ presidential elections in August, which the opposition and Western democracies see as rigged, the country has been rocked for months by unprecedented mass protests. The winners of that vote were authoritarian leader Aliaksandr Lukashenko, who has ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly three decades.
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