On Human Rights Day in the city center of Berlin, three artists from Belarus and Ukraine recreated the life full of harassment and violence in a prison cell in Belarus. In their public theater performance, they mirror their experience and that of many other Belarusians during their imprisonment. At the same time, they draw public attention to the dictatorship in the EU’s immediate neighborhood – and show how a future without authoritarian and patriarchal practices could look like there.
More than two years after the Belarusian regime violently cracked down peaceful protests against the rigged presidential elections, the authorities have now muzzled all critical voices. There are over 1400 long-term political prisoners in Belarus, among them are prominent figures of the democracy movement like Ales Bialiatski and Maria Kalesnikava as well as students, workers, journalists, doctors, and artists. In short: a cross-section of Belarusian society.
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