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Belarusian held in Poland suspected of ordering hammer attack on Navalny ally

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 15:00

Two Polish citizens detained earlier on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition figure Leonid Volkov in Lithuania

A Belarusian national has been detained in Poland on suspicion of ordering the attack on a top Russian opposition leader, Leonid Volkov, on Moscow’s behalf, the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, has announced.

Volkov, a close aide of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was briefly admitted to hospital last month after he was ambushed and attacked outside his house in Vilnius , the capital of Lithuania. The assailant smashed open Volkov’s car window and repeatedly struck him with a hammer, breaking Volkov’s left arm and damaging his left leg before fleeing the scene.

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Belarus prisoner smuggles out account of brutal jail written on toilet paper

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 15 April - 19:29

Katsiaryna Novikava is one of hundreds of political prisoners in country ruled by dictator Alexander Lukashenko

A political prisoner in Belarus has shed light on the country’s brutal prison system by smuggling out her story written on pieces of toilet paper.

Katsiaryna Novikava, 38, described being repeatedly beaten by security forces after she was detained in June 2023 wearing only a nightshirt. She became one of hundreds of political prisoners in the country of 9.5 million people ruled by authoritarian dictator Alexander Lukashenko.

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Moscow concert hall attack: fear death toll higher after reports of 100 missing

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 27 March - 16:05

State investigations say they have received numerous reports as officials repeat claims that Ukraine and west involved in assault

The final death toll from the Moscow concert hall terrorist attack could be much higher than the 140 confirmed dead, with Russian state investigations saying they have received 143 reports about people who had gone missing .

The investigative committee said in a statement that 84 bodies had so far been identified.

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Revealed: the names linked to ClothOff, the deepfake pornography app

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 29 February - 19:28

Exclusive: Guardian investigation for podcast series Black Box reveals names connected to app that generated nonconsensual images of underage girls around the world

Prologue: the collision – podcast

The first Miriam al-Adib learned of the pictures was when she returned home from a business trip. “Mum,” said her daughter. “I want to show you something.”

The girl, 14, opened her phone to show an explicit image of herself. “It’s a shock when you see it,” said Adib, a gynaecologist in the southern Spanish town of Almendralejo and a mother of four daughters. “The image is completely realistic … If I didn’t know my daughter’s body, I would have thought that image was real.”

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Coach who tried to force Olympic sprinter back to Belarus lands five-year ban

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 28 February - 14:35

Yury Moisevich guilty of ‘affront to athlete’s dignity’
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya feared for her safety in Belarus

An Olympic coach who tried to force sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home from the Tokyo Games to Belarus, where she feared for her safety , was banned from the sport for five years on Tuesday.

Yury Moisevich’s actions in Tokyo were adjudged to be “a clear affront to the athlete’s dignity and an abuse of … power,” the Athletics Integrity Unit said. He also was found guilty of “providing false or inaccurate information in the course of events leading up to the athlete’s departure from the Olympic Village” in August 2021. The 63-year-old coach is banned from working in track and field until February 2029.

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Belarus heads to polls in tightly controlled elections opposition have called a ‘farce’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 25 February - 10:51

President Alexander Lukashenko’s crackdown on dissent has continued as many forced into early votes

Polls have opened in Belarus’s tightly controlled parliamentary and local elections that are expected to cement the rule of the country’s authoritarian leader, despite calls for a boycott from the opposition, which dismissed the balloting as a “senseless farce”.

Alexander Lukashenko, the president who has ruled Belarus with an iron hand for nearly 30 years, accuses the west of trying to use the vote to undermine his government and “destabilise” the country of 9.5 million people.

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Belarusian flautist’s fate unknown as hundreds of activists remain in prison

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 21 February - 05:00

Death of Russian opposition leader will add to anxiety of Maria Kolesnikova’s family who have not heard from her for a year

It has been more than a year since relatives and friends have heard from Maria Kolesnikova. The Belarusian activist is one of 1,416 political prisoners behind bars as part of a crackdown that has maintained pace this year before parliamentary elections this weekend.

“The last letter from [Maria] was received on 14 February 2023,” her sister wrote last week. “Since then, which is exactly a year ago, we have not received any reliable information about her.”

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Refugee film Green Border by Agnieszka Holland attacked by Polish government

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 14 September, 2023 - 16:07

The drama, which won a Venice film festival prize, was called ‘Nazi propaganda’ by proponents of Poland’s right-wing migrant policy

Polish film director Agnieszka Holland’s prize-winning refugee drama Green Border is to be released in Poland, weeks before the country goes to the polls on migration matters, in defiance of a major backlash from the right-wing conservative government.

Holland’s black-and-white film, which scooped up the special jury prize at last month’s Venice film festival and will be released in her native country on 22 September, is told from the perspective of a Syrian family trying to flee into the EU via Belarus, as well as that of a Polish border guard having qualms about the brutal treatment of refugees.

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Пазыўны Салам — "Не чакайце, пачынайце нешта рабіць зараз!" | Доброволец Полка Калиновского

Angelica · Wednesday, 15 March, 2023 - 16:02

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