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The Belarusian GULAG on German Television Channel ZDF — A Report Featuring Olga Karach
In ZDF’s report, Olga Karach exposes slave labour in Belarusian penal colonies. The German television channel ZDF aired a report on its programme frontal, examining forced labour in Belarusian penal colonies and how goods produced by prisoners have reached, and continue to reach, the European market through complex supply chains. The report features Olga Karach,…
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Not everyone who does not want to fight wants peace
Why conscientious objection is only the beginning of demilitarisation This article is not an attempt to provide a ready-made answer. Rather, it is an invitation to think more deeply about what we actually mean by antimilitarism when war ceases to be an abstract possibility and becomes an immediate political reality. The past four years of…
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To Refuse to Kill Is Threatening to Every State — An Article in Ställ om! Magazine
Ställ om!, a Swedish digital magazine focused on peace and climate justice, published an article which calls for support for Belarusian and Russian conscientious objectors in Lithuania. They face deportation and imprisonment for refusing military service. It also presents a fundraising calendar dedicated to twelve conscientious objectors. The calendar aims to make their courage visible…
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Transnational Repression Against Belarusians — An Article in Ställ om! Magazine
Ställ om!, a Swedish digital magazine focused on peace and climate justice, published an article about transnational repression against Belarusians. Anatolij Kotov’s disappearance highlights the escalating danger faced by Belarusian political exiles and human rights defenders targeted by Lukashenko’s regime. The public threats and so-called “execution lists” show that transnational repression is becoming a direct…
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Before It Is Too Late: A Warning to Europe — A Letter from Olga Karach
Ställ om!, a Swedish digital magazine focused on peace and climate justice published Olga Karach’s letter. It discusses the difficult situation faced by Belarusian political refugees in Lithuania. Olga Karach warns that Latvia’s retreat from international human rights commitments is not an isolated political episode, but an alarming sign of an authoritarian turn in the…
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Olga Karach in issue No. 6 of the Swedish activists’ magazine Ställ om! (November 2025)
A Swedish activist-run magazine, distributed among religious communities, ecological movements, peace advocates, and human rights defenders, has published a substantial interview with Belarusian human rights defender Olga Karach, director of the Belarusian human rights organization Our House, operating in exile. The interview opens with the well-known words of German pastor and anti-fascist Martin Niemöller (1946):…