Britta Hasselmann, a member of the German Bundestag, has become the 300th symbolic “godmother” of a political prisoner in Belarus. 300 “godparents” from 17 European countries illustrate the unwavering and enormous European solidarity with the victims of the Lukashenko regime.
Minsk singer Meriem Herasimenka was detained after a street concert where she had performed a song by a Ukrainian band.
In July 2022, the Viasna Human Rights Center observed a continuing trend toward politically motivated criminal prosecution of citizens. Viasna is aware of at least 76 people convicted for political reasons.
A military analyst at the US-based Institute for War Studies (ISW) considers Belarus’ participation in Russia’s war against Ukraine unlikely due to the small number of its combat groups and Lukashenko’s fear of losing power.
The UN’s aviation watchdog ICAO has issued a new report, which condemns Belarus authorities over the 2021 fake bomb threat and subsequent forced landing of Ryanair flight FR4978.
16 children from families that had been forced to flee from Belarus to Poland due to the repressions and two teachers came to Germany for a vacation.
National Belarusian flags with the names of Belarusians who died in the war appeared on the Independence Square in Kyiv.
The investigation of Belarusian authorities into the “acts of terrorism” on railways has been completed. The Investigative Committee says that the accused face death penalty.
During Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s visit to Copenhagen, her team met with representatives of tech giants Meta, Microsoft, and Google and called on them to promote Belarusian content and remove propaganda.
Last year, a group of hacktivists known as Cyber Partisans breached the Belarus’ Interior Ministry databases and found a secret government wiretapping system. Now, they’ve started posting the recordings, including wiretapped conversations of the Russian embassy employees in Minsk.
