„Trajectories of Change“ Fellow from the 2018 cohort Stas Gorelik has been arrested in Minsk in the night from 11 to 12 August. As his partner reported, the security agents entered their home and conducted a thorough search. They did not find or remove anything, but arrested Stas and took him to jail. You can find more information and statements on the website put together by his colleagues at the George Washington University:
https://www.freestasgorelik.info/
The ZEIT-Stiftung has just released an official statement on this case in German:
https://www.zeit-stiftung.de/presse/detail/965
We will circulate it through social media and would be grateful, if you could help us in spreading this information – both in the English and German speaking academic communities and media.