My husband will be free, he will be able to see and hug our children only when Belarus is free. What a strange and difficult sentence to have to write... My family’s stability and well-being is interlinked with democracy and freedom of my beloved Belarus. Since my husband’s imprisonment more than a year ago, so many more families are facing similar unbearable situations and intimidation by the regime. It is still hard to believe this...
It is hard to express in writing what it feels like. I need you to imagine yourself in this situation. I need you to imagine that your government, without any justification, imprisons you, threatens you and your family and intimidates your friends and associates to silence you and make you invisible. Not just once, but over and over again for years on end.
