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

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday dampened hopes for a mass release of prisoners that U.S. President Donald ...

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 ...

Belarus opposition couple to keep fighting for release of political prisoners By Andrius Sytas June 22, 20255:36 AM PDTUpdated June 22, 2025 ...

Last week, the Belarusian democratic opposition was torn apart by a particular question — should the West isolate and pressure Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko with tougher sanctions, or ...

Belarus’ main opposition candidate has rejected the official result of the presidential election that handed a landslide victory to the country’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko on ...

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled opposition Belarus leader who ran against President Alexander Lukashenko in the 2020 election, speaks to Reuters ahead of Belarus' 2025 election in Ottawa ...

The opposition leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, fled the country after running for president in 2020 against Belarus’s authoritarian leader, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.

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

The opposition leader has said activists are neither pro-West nor anti-Russia, but their country is sovereign. "We are not Russia. We are Belarus," she said.

People save up for three months to buy new boots. I lived that way myself as an investigator." Two years later, the democratic opposition in Belarus is scattered, imprisoned, or marginalized.

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.