Petition in Solidarity with Academics and Activists in Belarus
Today marks one-year anniversary of the crackdown on Belarussian students for their nonviolent protests across the country over the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko. Since the allegedly fraudulent presidential elections in August 2020, thousands of protestors assembled in the streets of Minsk and other major cities, demanding that Lukashenko leave office. Many of the protests were organized by students and took place at university campuses. Belarussian forces arr