Lukashenko says there are no political prisoners in Belarus and that those behind bars are law-breakers who chose their own ...

VILNIUS - The West needs to keep up pressure on Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to try to force democratic change, newly released dissident Siarhei Tsikhanouski told Reuters. Read more at ...

The special services of Belarus see and seriously control the former imprisoned oppositionists, but much is not publicly ...

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Beyond celebrating that 14 people gained their freedom lies the ugly reality that there are still 1,186 political prisoners in Belarus.

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Jon Shelton with AP, Reuters, AFP 06/21/2025 Siarhei Tsikhanouski was jailed by the authoritarian regime of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko in 2020 after challenging him in an election.

Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Belarus' key opposition figure, is free after spending nearly five years in jail. His wife, Sviatlena , talks about taking up her husband's mantle after his imprisonment.

Siarhei Tsikhanouski was in solitary confinement in a Belarus prison for most of the past five years ...

- Ed.), who challenged Alexander Lukashenko at that time, remain in prison. Therefore, the moral and political duty of those who look after political prisoners is to remind about them and try to make ...

The First Man's Pool Telegram channel close to the Belarusian presidential press service said that Lukashenko had a meeting with U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg in Minsk on Saturday.