Polish Carmelite remains detained in Belarus

The 27-year-old friar faces espionage charges.

A young Polish Carmelite friar remains in detention four months after he was arrested on espionage charges in Belarus.

The flag of Belarus flies in State Flag Square in Minsk. Credit: User 699/wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0.

Br. Grzegorz Gaweł, O.Carm., is classified as a political prisoner by human rights organizations. But Belarusian authorities accuse him of e…