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And all walls shall fall? Humanitarian crisis on the EU’s frontier leaves asylum-seekers stranded, six dead

Post author By Olga Cielemecka
Post date October 4, 2021

A group of refugees outside of a border patrol station in Michałowo, Poland on 27 September, 2021. They were pushed back to Belarus the same night. Credit: Photo by Agata Kubis/OKO.press. Courtesy of the Author.

Popular among the anti-communist dissidents in Poland, Mury (English: Walls) was a protest song written by singer songwriter Jacek Kaczmarski in 1978 to the music composed by a Catalan, Lluís Llach. Mury/Walls was an anthem of those yearning for political freedom and civil liberties. “Pull the teeth of the bars from the walls! Tear off […]

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Belarusian activists: Freedom or Prison – It’s All the Same

Post author By lefteast
Post date March 28, 2017

How ‘Freedom Day’ went in Belarus, and what to expect next: comments from Belarusian activists On 25 May 2017, demonstrations marking Freedom Day took place in cities across Belarus (Freedom Day is the anniversary of the announcement of the self-proclaimed Belarusian People’s Republic on 25 March 1918; it is celebrated mainly by Belarusian nationalists). The […]

Tags arrests, austerity, belarus, freedom, Lukashenko, post-Soviet, protests, Russia, state, violence