Andrei Gnyot fears for his life after organising an alliance of athletes to oppose the country’s dictator in 2020
A court in Serbia has ruled that a Belarusian activist who was instrumental in organising an alliance of athletes in opposition to the country’s dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, can be extradited to Belarus.
Rights advocates and exiled Belarusian political leaders said the ruling would inevitably lead to a phoney trial and long jail sentence for Andrei Gnyot, who was arrested on an Interpol warrant issued after a request from Minsk.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/serbian-court-approves-extradition-anti-lukashenko-activist-belarus-andrei-gnyot
Author : Shaun Walker in Warsaw
Publish date : 2024-06-20 12:12:18
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