EP Collects Signatures To Cancel 2021 IIHF World Championship In Minsk
MEP Karin Karlsbro from the Swedish Liberal Party has sent a call for signatures on a letter to the European Parliament with a request not to host the 2021 World Championship in Minsk. It is addressed to the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and its president, René Fassel.
“Sports should not be politics, but that is no excuse to turn to the blind eye towards what is currently happening in Belarus. We cannot hold a world championship in arenas with protesters being arrested and tortured in the streets outside.
To support a regime that is using weapons against their own population is completely unacceptable,” says Karin Karlsbro. There are also strong suspicions that Dmitry Baskov, president of the Belarusian Ice
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