“Mikalai Autukhovich – 25 years.
Halina Dzerbysh – 20 years.
Volha Mayorava – 20 years.
Pavel Sava – 20 years.
Pavel Rezanovich – 19 years.
Viktar Snehur – 19 years.
Uladzimir Hundar – 18 years.
Iryna Melkher – 17 years.
Siarhei Rezanovich – 16 years.
Liubou Rezanovich – 15 years.
Iryna Harachkina – 6 years and 1 month.
Anton Melkher – 2,5 years.
This is not age. These are the insane terms people were sentenced to after the “trial” in the Autukhovich case – almost 200 years in total for 12 people. Some of them don't even know each other, but it doesn't matter to the regime, because it wants to create the illusion of a “terrorist threat”.
So who are these “terrorists”? Who threatens the state so much that the regime thinks they deserve decades of imprisonment?
Halina Dzerbysh, a retired woman suffering from cancer. Uladzimir Hundar, a disabled man without a leg, who was mocked by the security forces and had his prosthesis and crutches taken away from him. Priest Siarhei Rezanovich, pensioner Iryna Melkher, civic activists.
But the fact is that it wasn't the pensioners and activists who betrayed Belarus. They never pushed our country to the edge where dissent is destroyed, prisons are scenes of torture, the prices are rising while wages are falling, occupation forces are introduced and an attack on another country meets assistance.
We all need to work and do everything we can for the moment when Mikalai Autukhovich and all political prisoners are free to come as soon as possible. For Belarusians to live peacefully in a country that really belongs to them, where every person is respected and valued. For Belarus to defend its independence, refrain from further wars, and get rid of the dictatorship forever. For Belarus to become the country to live in that Siarhei Tsikhanouski and millions of Belarusians dreamed of”.
