Elections in Belarus: Opposition leader calls for boycott – “held as prisoners”. In addition to 110 members of parliament, around 12,000 representatives from local assemblies will be re-elected in Sunday's vote.
The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell spoke in January of a “wave of repression” in the Eastern European country. According to the human rights organization Vyasna, there are currently more than 1,400 political prisoners in prison in Belarus. Former Soviet republic is increasingly isolated internationally because of its support for Russia's military offensive in Ukraine.