‘She’s strictly an armchair crusader’: Russian national Irina Wickholm disappeared three months ago. Now, she’s set to go on trial in Belarus for tweeting about Lukashenko. 

Russian national Irina Wickholm was last heard from in late May. Around that time, she phoned a friend to tell him that a police officer had visited her home in Brest, Belarus. Prior to her disappearance, Wickholm was actively tweeting to her handful of Twitter followers about the "crimes" of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Three months later, the Belarusian Attorney General's Office sent out a press release about a felony defamation case opened against a "58-year-old foreign citizen" identified only by the initial "V." Shortly afterward, human rights activists identified the defendant in the trial as Irina Wickholm. Now, she faces up to five years in prison in Belarus for what her friends describe as "strictly" armchair activism. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/09/10/she-s-strictly-an-armchair-crusader