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Does the word humanity still mean anything to you? Where are they?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, and Tomas Venclova as well as Nobel Prize winners Elfriede Jelinek, Herta M\u00fcller and Olga Tokarczuk are among the signatories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 15,&nbsp;BPN.&nbsp;Thirteen prominent intellectuals have sent an open letter to Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka to ask him about the plight of Belarusian political prisoners, including opposition activist Maryja Kale\u015bnikava and former presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka. &#8220;Mr. President \u0141uka\u0161enka, you secure your power only by force,&#8221;&nbsp;orf.at&nbsp;cited the letter. &#8220;The complete isolation of prisoners is torture yet prisoners are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-1459","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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