The academic community of the European Humanities University (EHU) expresses its categorical protest in regards to beating and detention of the EHU and Vytautas Magnus University student Mikalai Dziadok of the undergraduate program “World Politics and Economy” during the peaceful protests in Minsk, held on March 25, 2017.
We do also expresses a categorical protest in regards to the brutal crackdown of the peaceful demonstrations in Minsk, resulting in hundreds people suffering, including EHU students Anastasiya Ranko (undergraduate program “Media and Communications”), Darya Matskevich (program “International Law and Law of the European Union”), former EHU faculty member and prominent Belarusian civil activist Ales Lahviniets, Head of the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House in Vilnius Tatsiana Raviaka, EHU alumnus Uladzimir Valodzin (“Interpretation and Preservation of the Cultural Heritage”) and many others.
We express our sincere support to the relatives of everyone, who suffered during the unlawful actions of the Belarusian authorities and demand an immediate release of all unjustly detained and convicted.