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.
On 9 June, the second day of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s official visit to Latvia began. She spoke at the plenary session of the Latvian Parliament in Riga.
It is a real-life thriller with a happy ending: two Belarusians managed to escape to Latvia after spending more than a year and a half in the Swedish embassy in Minsk.
Pavel Kuchynski, a political prisoner with stage IV cancer, was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He was accused of insulting Lukashenko and representatives of the authorities, as well as threatening violence against law enforcement officers.
A representative branch of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Office has been opened in Kyiv. This local representation body will focus on establishing ties with the Ukrainian authorities and protecting interests of Belarusian citizens in Ukraine.
Hearings in the biggest criminal trial since the 2020 Belarusian protests continue in Brest. 129 people have already been convicted.
A death penalty for attempted acts of terrorism has been recently introduced in Belarus as the state is trying to smother any display of dissent.
Human rights activists designated May 21 the Day of the Political Prisoner in Belarus. Currently, over 1,200 people have been officially recognized as political prisoners in the country.
Six Belarusian fighters have died fighting for the liberation of Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Belarusians are fighting both as part of the separate Kastus Kalinouski battalion and in other units of the Ukrainian army.
