A court in Belarus sentenced Svetlana Tichanovskaya in absentia to 15 years in prison on Monday. Tikhanovskaya, who resides abroad, is considered the primary political opponent of Belarusian President Aleksandr…
In Belarus, the trial of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the leader of the opposition to the regime of President Lukashenko, starts. Tichanovskaya is not present at the trial and has been in…
EU ambassadors agreed in Brussels on sanctions against senior officials and military personnel in Belarus. The French ambassador tweeted this and was confirmed by several diplomatic sources in Brussels. …
Belarus denies that it forced a Ryanair plane to land at Minsk airport last May. On Thursday evening, four high-ranking Belarusian officials were charged in the United States with air…
According to the Polish border guard, three large groups of migrants on the border between Poland and Belarus tried unsuccessfully on Tuesday evening to break through Polish border barriers and…
The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about migrants crossing the border from Belarus to Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. Many have “ongoing health problems” and require medical and psychological…
Imprisoned Belarusian activist Maria Kolesnikova has won the Vaclav Havel Prize for Human Rights. Kolesnikova, “one of the three female symbols of the opposition in Belarus”, has shown “true…
A film claiming that Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko spent hundreds of millions of dollars on luxury homes and cars, among other things, has been viewed more than three million times…
Thousands of people were at the funeral of a Belarusian protester on Friday. The man probably died after serious assault by the security services. 31-year-old Roman Bondarenko died on…
The United Kingdom has expelled two Belarusian diplomats in response to the expulsion of two British diplomats by the government of controversial President Lukashenko. The UK will not be…