On Tuesday 20 June, at this week’s summer plenary session in Strasbourg, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe discussed the situation of Belarusian opposition activists in exile and adopted a resolution calling for greater practical and legal support for them.
As a symbolic gesture, the debate was preceded by a concert by the “Volny Chor”, a group that grew out of the rallies organised by musicians at the Belarusian State Philharmonic in August 2020, following the...