Hijacking and arrest for journalist Raman Pratasevich. Poisoning and imprisonment for opposition politician Alexey Navalny. Fabricated charges and show trials for historian Yuri Dmitriev, artist Yulia Tsvetkova, and other civic rights activists. Trial and penal colony for the editors of the Russian student journal DOXA. Arrest and torture for hundreds of peaceful protesters. Murder for multiple political activists. Continuing occupation of parts of Ukraine. Threats of detention, molestation, and death for hundreds of thousands who dare to speak up publicly against these measures.
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Activists and members of the Belarusian diaspora in Ukraine hold former national red and white flags of Belarus during a rally at Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on May 30, 2021, to support Belarusian anti-government movements and arrested opposition journalist.