(Reuters) -Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday dampened hopes for a mass release of prisoners that U.S.

Human rights activists say female political prisoners in Belarus are often singled out for abuse and humiliation, threatened ...

The release of Sergei Tikhanovsky and 13 other political prisoners in Belarus was a diplomatic win for the Trump ...

Our self-exiled opposition members have nothing to do with it. In fact, they insist on having ‘political prisoners’. Without them, their rationale for targeting the ‘dictator’ collapses. This is the ...

Opinion Opinion - Belarus courts the west as its opposition keeps fighting Tatsiana Kulakevich, opinion contributor Thu, July 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM PDT 4 min read ...

Belarus' opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who in 2020 left the country under pressure from the authorities, said the raids and the seizures are "the authorities’ revenge on ...

LONDON -- A key opposition leader in Belarus has disappeared in the country's capital, Minsk, after another weekend of mass protests against the rule of embattled President Alexander Lukashenko.

A Belarus court sentences exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who lives in Lithuania, to 15 years in prison after a trial in absentia.

Opposition supporters take part in a rally against presidential election results near the Independence Palace in Minsk, Belarus, Aug. 30, 2020.

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said her meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday was “very friendly and warm” and there was an understanding “that ...

MINSK, Belarus — Police in Belarus on Monday detained several leading opposition activists who have helped spearhead a wave of protests challenging the reelection of authoritarian President ...