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With opposition voices rising before a presidential election in August 2020, Belarus leader Aleksandr Lukashenko began doing ...
After five years in prison, activist Siarhei Tsikhanouski discussed the conditions political prisoners face in Belarus and his future as a dissident. His wife, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, says their ...
Siarhei Tsikhanouski, speaking a day after his release from Belarusian prison, tried to smile and joke, but struggled to hold ...
The country’s authoritarian regime continues to hold more than 1,100 political prisoners in abusive conditions.
Belarusian authorities released by presidential pardon 14 prisoners, all jailed as a result of politically motivated ...
Belarusian dissident Siarhei Tsihanouski says he was held in solitary confinement, in conditions similar to torture, during ...
Belarusian opposition figure Siarhei Tsikhanouski has been released from prison after years of solitary confinement and hardship. Now in Lithuania, he reunites with his family, facing poor health from ...
The fight she was describing is not just to free Siarhei Tsikhanouski, one of 1,200 Belarusian political prisoners held by their government at the moment. Her fight is larger than that, and more ...
Belarus’s Lukashenko calls Putin his “elder brother,” but over his 30-year rule he’s balanced close ties to Moscow with keeping his country from being swallowed.
Belarus, Russia’s closest ally, has released an American prisoner and two others from jail, an exiled opposition group said on Wednesday, in the latest sign that the autocratic Belarusian ...
Her husband, activist Siarhei Tsikhanouski, was jailed when he tried to run for president four years ago — and remains imprisoned. Belarus' nuclear protection from Russia ...