Valleri Robinson

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Valleri Robinson is author of Belarusian Theatre and the 2020 Pro-Democracy Protests: Documenting the Resistance. She serves as Head of the Department of Theatre at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she is an alum of the OpEd Project/Public Voices Fellowship program.

December 21, 2025

Freed Belarusian Political Prisoners Deserve Our Attention

The release or exchange of detainees and political prisoners is often a highly theatrical spectacle of diplomacy. But the release of 123 political prisoners and detainees from Belarus on December 13th was a muted affair, conducted…