Survivors of state brutality in Belarus share their stories.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2022/3/17/how-dissent-was-crushed-in-belarus
To this day, Nina* blames herself for taking her boyfriend Alex* to the protest in downtown Minsk.
It was the evening of August 9, 2020, and earlier that day, the 25-year-olds had voted in their first presidential election.
Like millions of other Belarusians, they had hoped their votes would change the trajectory of their country….
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