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Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of playing games with the West by drip-feeding releases of political prisoners ahead of an ...
Human rights group Viasna, which is banned as an "extremist" organisation, says there are still some 1,250 political prisoners. Lukashenko has freed more than 250 in the past year on what he ...
There have been reports that well-known political prisoners are under pressure to request an official pardon from Lukashenko ahead of the vote, so that he might release them and look merciful.
According to Tsikhanouskaya, 29 of those on the list are in critical condition and “are basically dying in prison.” She said six political prisoners have died behind bars since 2020. Lukashenko, who has run the country with an iron fist for 30 years and will seek re-election next year, denies that there are political prisoners in Belarus ...
Since 2020, Lukashenko’s regime has stepped up its efforts to stamp out dissent. By the end of December 2024, Belarus was holding 1,265 political prisoners, according to Viasna, a human rights ...
The five Western allies urged the Lukashenko regime to release the more than 1,250 “political prisoners who remain unjustly detained”. Show comments.
24 September – Jörg Dornau, a lawmaker for the far-right Alternative for Germany party in Saxony, is revealed to be using Belarusian political prisoners as labour by independent Belarusian news outlet Reform.news. [25] 27 September – President Lukashenko warns that Belarus will use nuclear weapons if attacked by the West. [26]
Exerted pressure on political prisoners, denying their right to correspondence, and made threats in order to extort confessions. Directly responsible for violating the human rights of political prisoners and opposition activists by the use of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.