{"id":501504,"date":"2025-12-10T19:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=501504"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:23:53","slug":"latushka-urges-czech-republic-to-support-holding-lukashenka-accountable-for-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/latushka-urges-czech-republic-to-support-holding-lukashenka-accountable-for-crimes-against-humanity","title":{"rendered":"Latushka Urges Czech Republic to Support Holding Lukashenka Accountable for Crimes Against Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deputy Head of the United Transition Cabinet Pavel Latushka<\/b> informed the Czech side about the ongoing repressions in Belarus. He presented the available data during a meeting at the Czech Embassy in Warsaw, held on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Cabinet\u2019s press service reports.<\/p>\n

The meeting was attended by representatives of independent Belarusian media and NGOs.<\/p>\n

Pavel Latushka<\/b> stated: \u201cOur most important goal is the release of all political prisoners from Lukashenka\u2019s prisons, but our strategic goal is democratic change in Belarus.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

The politician reminded that, according to the Human Rights Center \u201cViasna,\u201d there are currently 1,217 political prisoners in Belarus, while Dissidentby lists 1,273. According to him, Lukashenka has released four times fewer political prisoners than were declared after the last release on 11 September 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must look very carefully and realistically at the fact that Lukashenka is not changing his repressive policies,\u201d<\/i> he noted.<\/p>\n

Pavel Latushka highlighted the importance of the EU position voiced in Brussels by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas<\/b>: the EU will continue supporting Belarusian democratic forces, stressing the need to \u201cisolate, including through additional sanctions, the regime that for four years has been helping Russia wage an aggressive war against Ukraine.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

He appealed to the Czech side to support the Cabinet\u2019s position that the regime must first enter into dialogue with Belarusian society and democratic institutions and undertake real policy changes \u2014 only after that can it expect any adjustment of the EU\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important that Lukashenka sees unity in the EU\u2019s position toward his criminal regime and understands that the EU\u2019s stance will not change until the regime undertakes real changes in its internal repressive and external aggressive policies,\u201d<\/i> he stressed.<\/p>\n

The Cabinet representative also briefed the ambassador and Czech diplomats on the activities of the United Transition Cabinet and the Coordination Council, and asked for the Czech government\u2019s support in holding Lukashenka accountable for crimes against humanity committed against the Belarusian people.<\/p>\n

Czech diplomatic missions hold such meetings annually. Their origins trace back to the initiative of French President Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand<\/strong>, who on 9 December 1988 met with members of Charter 77, led by Czech dissident V\u00e1clav Havel<\/strong> \u2014 later the president of the Czech Republic \u2014 at the French Embassy in Prague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deputy Head of the United Transition Cabinet Pavel Latushka informed the Czech side about the ongoing repressions in Belarus. He presented the available data during a meeting at the Czech Embassy in Warsaw, held on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, the Cabinet\u2019s press service reports. The meeting was attended by representatives of independent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":501503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6939acafaff19.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Latushka Urges Czech Republic to Support Holding Lukashenka Accountable for Crimes Against Humanity"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}