Authorities in Belarus on Thursday announced raids and the seizure of property belonging to 104 opposition activists who have fled the country, the latest step in a crackdown on dissent that has ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Authorities in Belarus opened a criminal ... take away an old Belarusian national flag from Nina Bahinskaya's, 73, hands during an opposition rally to protest the official ...

Authorities in Belarus confirmed Wednesday that dozens more raids were carried out against opposition figures suspected of so-called "extremist" activity. The latest crackdown targets efforts to ...

has kept the flag of opposition flying from exile in Lithuania; but radicals want more. “These people wanted her to become Belarus’s Charles de Gaulle,” says Artyom Shraibman, a political ...

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg A court in Belarus has sentenced the country’s main exiled opposition leader in absentia to 15 years in prison, the state news agency, Belta, said on Monday, as the ...

Andrzej Jukhniewicz was arrested in early May and charged with conducting an unauthorized picket for displaying the flag ... and Belarus' most prominent opposition figures either fled the country ...

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya ... But she rejected one unconventional idea proposed by MEPs — to use the European Parliament as the base of a Belarus government-in-exile. “We don ...

Kolesnikova, who is serving 11 years in prison for helping organize anti-government protests in Belarus in 2020, and other imprisoned opposition figures have been held incommunicado for months on ...

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