Czech lower house speaker calls for release of Belarus’s Darya Losikova

The speaker of the Czech lower house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, appealed to her Belarusian counterpart to release Darya Losikova, the wife of Belarusian political prisoner and Radio Free Europe contributor Ihar Losik, the lower house informed on Friday.

Losik was detained in October, while her husband, who is serving a 15-year sentence, has been in prison since December 2021. The letter, initiated by Ms. Pekarová Adamová, was also signed by house speakers of Belgium, Cyprus, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia. The letter was sent the day before International Human Rights Day, which falls on 10 December.