[BRIEF NOTE] Tatsiana Khoma

[rfmcdonald]

br23 carries the story of Tatsiana Khoma, a Belarusian university student who's one of the most recent victims of Belarus' dictatorship.

[Tatsiana Khoma] is the first Belarusian (in fact, the first Eastern European) to have been elected to the Council of the biggest European students’ organization ESIB. Today she was informed that she was expelled from the Belarus State Economic University (BSEU) immediatly, and that she also has to leave her room at the dormitory today. The official reason for this action is the fact that she did not inform the university beforehand that she would go abroad (this is forbidden under a new Lukashenka’s decree about students). ESIB is now asking the European Universities Association (EUA) to revise the membership of BSEU, and all the universities around Europe to suspend their cooperation with BSEU.

Go here to sign a petition demanding her reinstatement.