New sanctions are needed. Activist of the European Belarus civil campaign, former political prisoner Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk ...

Political opponents and journalists willing to challenge Lukashenka’s sham election face prison, exile or worse – but they ...

"In order to put an end to this campaign of harassment ... no free or fair elections while opponents of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka remain in jail as political prisoners.

In its World Report 2025, Human Rights Watch (HRW) describes the Lukashenka government’s persecution of critics ... featuring a poem written by the journalist – to highlight his case. At the end of ...

potential stakeholders of a post-Lukashenka regime who view Russia as a threat, determine how to support them, and begin doing so. Second, it should talk with the regime, conditionally, of course, ...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has stated that the so-called presidential "elections" in Belarus on 26 January 2025 do not meet international standards and that there are ...

Lukashenka has long been a keen ice hockey player ... And, on a fair playing field, she was thought to have a decent chance of winning. In the end, in an election that the international community ...

and there are no grounds for recognising the legitimacy of Aliaksandr Lukashenka as president," the Parliamentary Assembly concluded at the end of an urgent debate on 'The urgent need for free and ...

In the end, in an election that the international community decried ... 1,161 NGOS have been forced to close since 2020. SEE ALSO: In Belarus, Lukashenka's Regime Is Punishing Critics By Taking Their ...