Some receive threatening messages or phone-calls, others say their relatives are visited by authorities back home.

TALLINN, Estonia — A court in Belarus on Monday sentenced exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to 15 years in prison after a trial in absentia on charges including conspiring to ...

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said Tuesday that she received an anonymous note alleging that her imprisoned husband, also an opposition figure, died behind bars.

Belarusian democratic opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Monday said the international community and the Belarusian people need to "be well prepared for any scenario" as rumors ...

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was handed a 15-year jail term on Monday after being convicted in absentia for treason and "conspiracy to ...

the exiled leader of Belarus's main opposition party about the growing concerns regarding safety of political prisoners in Belarus As you have all of these discussions — and you've been having ...

About a dozen other parties were denied registration last year. Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is in exile in neighboring Lithuania after challenging Lukashenko in the ...

Maria Kalesnikava was sentenced to 11 years in prison in September 2021. A top jailed Belarus opposition leader, who became the face of its pro-democracy movement, is reportedly in intensive care ...

Activists say the authorities deliberately isolate imprisoned opposition leaders. The U.N. Committee on Human Rights has demanded repeatedly that Belarusian authorities implement “urgent ...

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who was forced into exile in Lithuania, called for solidarity with Kolesnikova on her birthday on Wednesday. "If the regime is ‘not at war ...

PHOTOS: Belarus' election reinforces authoritarian leader's rule despite opposition's call for a boycott Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday congratulated Lukashenko on “the confident ...

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 ...