Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Alena Minchenia is a doctoral candidate in Cultural History of Central and Eastern Europe at Lund University, Sweden. She is currently working on dissertation titled “To Be Called the People. On Emotional Stickiness, Protest Subjects, and Resistance in Belarus, 2015-2017”. Her research interests include studies of nonviolence and everyday resistance, anthropology of emotions, feminist theory and autoethnography.
Outside observers are often surprised at the rapid emergence of Belarus’ protest movement, but listening to how...