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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

E lections in Belarus on Sunday landed an opposition party member a seat in the country’s parliament for the first time in two decades, in a closely monitored poll that could signal better ...

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 ...