Exploiting International Law for Political Persecution

Exploiting International Law for Political Persecution

By Aleh Baradzin How could European legal mechanisms possibly serve the interests of an authoritarian leader? Aleh Baradzin examines how the brutal regime of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus exploits international law to involve European courts, police, and migration authorities in the transnational persecution of political opponents In 2020, Belarusian citizens took to the streets of Minsk to protest the re-election, for a sixth term, of the aut…