The unknown status of Mikalai Statkevich and the recent attacks on Belarusian politicians’ and activists’ family members

Reference RC-B9-0509/2023

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How the groups voted

GroupForAgainstAbstainedAbsentUnity

The Left37

17081268%

S&D141

1040037100%

Greens/EFA71

570

The European Parliament adopted, by 489 votes to 7, with 42 abstentions, a resolution on the unknown status of Mikola Statkevich and the recent attacks on Belarusian politicians’ and activists’ family members.The text adopted in plenary was tabled by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA, ECR groups and Members.Former presidential candidate and 2020 Sakharov Prize laureate Mikola Statkevich has been imprisoned on politically motivated charges for 14 years. Kept in solitary confinement under maximum security, his health is deteriorating and his lawyers and family have been denied information and contact for over 300 days. Other prominent Belarusian political prisoners have also been subjected to similar isolation…