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Former EHU Faculty Member Tatiana Kouzina Faces up to 12 Years in Prison

Photo: SYMPA/BIPART

On June 29, Tatiana Kouzina, alumna (Class 2002) and a former faculty member of the European Humanities University (EHU), was detained at the Minsk airport. On July 14, it was revealed that she was accused of alleged conspiracy or other acts committed to seize or hold state power and of calling to perform acts detrimental to national security. The maximum penalty for such charges is up to 12 years in prison.

T. Kouzina worked at EHU from 1996 to 2009: she held the position of Deputy Dean of the Franco-Belarusian Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences of EHU in Minsk, headed the Office of Public and International Relations, was lecturing to students of the Bachelor’s program “Political Science and European Studies”.

After finishing her work at the university, Tatiana continued cooperation with EHU as a social partner of the Bachelor’s program “World Politics and Economics” and the Master’s program “Public Policy”.

In 2015, Tatiana together with colleagues founded the School of Young Managers in Public Administration SYMPA and was doing expert research in public administration. One of the latest research that Tatiana has been working on was “The Concept of Public Administration Reform”.

The EHU community expresses solidarity with T. Kouzina and unequivocally condemns the consistent destruction of any manifestation of independent opinion and expression of freedom of speech in Belarus, and also demands the immediate release of all unjustly detained and convicted for political reasons.

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