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 ...

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 ...

Belarus is stepping up attacks on the opposition at home and abroad, five years after brutally crushing an unprecedented wave of mass protests against a stolen election.

In August 2020, mass protests rocked Belarus — but the regime clamped down hard. What's changed since then? And could things have turned out differently?

Longtime Belarus leader Lukashenko signals he may not seek another term Putin ally Lukashenko has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for more than than three decades and is now on seventh term.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus unleashed a new wave of raids and detentions against government critics who took part in opposition rallies abroad earlier this year, officials and ...

Authorities in Belarus have launched new raids and detentions against government critics who participated in opposition rallies abroad earlier this year. The country's Investigative Committee ...

Former political prisoner and 2010 Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau opens up to Kyiv Post on what his country has become under Lukashenko and Putin.