that’s a doozy of a headline.

I watched the three extended versions of Lord of the Rings in the same time it took to read that headline.

Aliaksandra Herasimenia and Alexander Oapeykin can't go back to Belarus. The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus and they want to single out these two. Everyone knows the election was fraudulent. The opposition candidates were arrested. A poll worker in Minsk said she was asked to sign a document summing up its result, with the vote totals left blank. Other poll workers said vote counting procedures weren't followed. It was obvious what was happening.

Thanks for the criticism.

Happy Cake Day.

Do they just stick a picture on a broom and put them in a cell?

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 65%. (I'm a bot)

> A former Olympic swimmer and a political activist were sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison by a Belarusian court on Monday for their role in protesting Alexander Lukashenko's authoritarian regime.

> Champion swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia and political activist Alexander Opeykin were found guilty of actions aimed at "Causing harm to the national security of Belarus," according to the state-run BelTA news agency.

> Three-time Olympic medalist Herasimenia and Opeikin founded the Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation, which brings together hundreds of Belarusian athletes in opposition to Lukashenko.

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It's a long sentence.

thank you for the civility and goodwill.

Better than 6 words klic bait garbage titles.

Henadz, are we the baddies?

Would be better as "Belarussian court dunks Olympic swimmer"?

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Fuck Lukashenko and his bullshit government, doing symbolic arrests to send signals to the wider population show no one is above the law is ludicrous and she be as much an international outrage as Britney Griner kangaroo court jailing . Can you imagine if the US arrested Alexander Ovechkin right now to mirror their hypocrisy . Free Belarus 🇧🇾, Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 Fuck Putin and his puppet Lukashenko!

My interpretation of that comment is less of a criticism towards the wording of the headline but rather a comment as to the gravity of it.

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True, but also per the subreddit rules the post should be removed regardless.

Don't editorialize article titles.

In an era of revolutionary transition in male-female relations during which female power has been steadily increasing (especially in "advanced" countries), it's not a surprise any more to see a woman (Herasimeniaa, the celebrity) portrayed as in command of an important political movement and a man (Opeykin, the political hack) deemed her second fiddle.

Female power is at the heart of the revolution in Iran, female power has been widely in evidence in fights over abortion rights in the West, and female power helps explain why a "[t]hree-time Olympic swimming medalist" can be the most important member of the Belarusian opposition, someone it is possible to imagine as the leader of an Eastern European nation.

And since her increased status is in harmony with the broader changes in the wider world, I fully expect her movement to triumph sooner or later, and on that day to see her on TV, standing on a podium in front of countless cameras, with other associates like Opeykin, lending dignity and legitimacy to the new government.

Fuck that guy. He is a fraud.