State opposition leads to prison while the national team plays all games away from home due to the nation’s support of Russia
here will be no supporters in the stands of Stadion Karadorde, in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, when Belarus begin theircampaign with a “home” match against Switzerland on Saturday. Nor, in many eyes, will there be much excuse for the fact their meeting is taking place at all.
a peaceful protest in August 2020. They were beaten up, Kozeka so badly that he needed an operation on his spine. A few days later Krumkachy, a rare private enterprise in a league of largely state-supported clubs, faced Dinamo Minsk in a cup quarter-final: their players wore T-shirts in support of their detained teammates and members of the public who had suffered at the authorities’ hands, while they stood still at kick-off and joined fans in a minute’s applause.
Krumkachy, then a second-tier club, had rallied round him from the start. “Some of the things that happened to them were brutal,” Ivulin says. Supporters would attend games wearing his squad number, 25, and be arrested; one was jailed for 15 days as a political prisoner, held in squalid conditions in a cell that crammed in as many as 18 inmates. Ivulin says that, in one case, a girl who brought balloons with the numbers “two” and “five” to a match was briefly held by police.
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