Belarus is set for a presidential election on Sunday, with five candidates on the ballot but no real contest. Alexander ...

The yellow name tag that Ales Bialiatski wears on his prison garb sets him apart from other inmates in Penal Colony No. 9 in ...

Arkatovich is among dozens of clergy — Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant — who have been jailed, silenced or forced into exile for protesting the 2020 election that gave Lukashenko a sixth term.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 20 more people that rights activists describe as political prisoners, a statement on the president's website said ...

Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of playing games with ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An imprisoned opposition activist in ... in a penal colony after failing to get on the ballot against ...

Self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 23 people who supposedly "committed extremist crimes". Among them are three women and 20 men; 13 people are over 50 years old, ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's youngest son, Nikolai, has been appearing ever more frequently in the media lately. The 20-year-old, who used to accompany his father on state visits ...

Ales Bialiatski, Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist, is imprisoned in Belarus, enduring harsh conditions as a political prisoner. President Lukashenko's regime labels Bialiatski and ...

Nearly five years ago, as massive anti-regime protests rocked Minsk amid accusations of election rigging by longtime authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, Putin’s public backing proved ...