(thread) Europe did not see such scale of repressions since the Greek junta's dictatorship ("black colonels") in Greece in the 1970s. Today human rights defenders identified at least 1002 names of prisoners who under investigation or already convicted for political reasons. 
HR activists identify 324 persons as political prisoners. 2,407 "extremist cases" have been filed. "Extremist orientation" now means all cases of a political nature. Many prisoners, incl the husband of @Tsihanouskaya, or M. Statkevich are in prison for almost one year already.
Twelve journalists and 14 bloggers remain behind bars, some of them are winners of national and international journalism awards. Almost all independent newspapers and independent TV and radio stations in the country have stopped publishing since 1996.
> 243 students were expelled from universities, 31 teachers got fired for political reasons. At least 2,965 people lost their jobs and seed assistance. At least 335 enterprises and businesses have been repressed or closed down for supporting the protests and nation-wide strike.
This is the most massive political repression in Europe in the last 40 years. Even during the "martial law" in Poland in the 1980s, fewer people were repressed per capita. If we take the same proportion of detentions, it would be 510,000 detainees in Russia or 140,000 in Poland
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