For defending freedom of speech, a journalist and a Polish minority activist in Belarus, Andrzej Poczobut, has just been sentenced to eight years in prison camps by dictator Alexsandr “Daddy” Lukashenka.
Practically at the same time, half a world away, for speaking out for freedom of conscience, Father Óscar Danilo Benavidez Dávila, a Catholic priest, drew a 10 year sentence from Nicaragua strongman Daniel Ortega.