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September 10, 2024
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's press service says that the leader has pardoned 30 people who were serving prison sentences for “protest-related crimes.”
September 04, 2024More than 70 European artists and film directors have signed an open letter urging Serbia not to extradite to Belarus a filmmaker and a prominent critic of the authoritarian government in Minsk, who is wanted in his home country for alleged tax evasion
August 26, 2024A wave of disappointment swept over opposition activists in Belarus last week as the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War unfolded and they learned it included none of the Belarusian political detainees who’ve been locked up for years by its authoritarian leader
August 08, 2024
Belarus’ authoritarian leader has granted pardon to a German citizen who has been sentenced to death on terrorism charges
July 30, 2024
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July 19, 2024
The wife of an imprisoned Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate says that the Belarusian authorities are depriving her husband of medicine
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February 21, 2024Experts from the U.N. Human Rights Commission have appealed to Belarusian authorities Monday to pardon an opposition politician diagnosed with a severe form of cancer while in prison
February 27, 2024Authorities in Belarus carried out raids and property seizures targeting more than 200 opposition activists, the latest step in the unrelenting government crackdown against dissent, coinciding with the opposition’s “day of solidarity with Belarusian political prisoners.”
May 21, 2024United Nations special representatives on human rights have called on Belarusian authorities to investigate the torture and deaths of political prisoners
June 06, 2024Hungary’s top diplomat has visited Belarus for talks on expanding ties despite the European Union’s sanctions against the country
May 29, 2024
Authorities in Belarus have announced raids and the seizure of property of 104 opposition activists who have fled the country
May 16, 2024
A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main security agency and obtained access to personal files of over 8,600 staffers of the KGB, the security service that still goes under its Soviet name
April 26, 2024
A prominent journalist in Belarus has been designated a political prisoner by the country’s leading human rights group
March 26, 2024
Thousands of Belarusians have been convicted on politically-driven charges over the last three years as part of the authorities' relentless crackdown on dissent
March 04, 2024
Belarusians will cast ballots Sunday in tightly controlled parliamentary and local elections that are set to cement an authoritarian leader’s rule amid opposition calls for a boycott
February 25, 2024
Dozens of clergy in Belarus — Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant — have been jailed, silenced or forced into exile for protesting the 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term
February 23, 2024
The family of imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova says it hasn't received a letter from her for a year
February 14, 2024
A human rights group says that a political prisoner has died in prison in Belarus after authorities failed to provide him with proper medical care
January 15, 2024
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a law into effect that significantly tightens control over various religious denominations and organizations
January 05, 2024
A human rights activist imprisoned for three years in Belarus accused authorities of holding political prisoners in conditions amounting to “torture.”
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