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Maria Kalesnikava transferred to penal colony
Prominent Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kalesnikava has been transferred to a women's penal colony near Homel. She was sentenced to 11 years in prison on unsubstantiated charges in September 2021.
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Yara to stop buying potash from Belaruskali by April 2022
Yara International has announced that it will wind down purchases of potash from Belarus by April due to international sanctions. The Belarusian diaspora regularly protested against Yara’s cooperation with the…
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Political prisoner Dzmitry Dudoits committed suicide
Political prisoner Dzmitry Dudoits committed suicide in Mahiliou. He was sentenced to two years of open prison.
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Statement by Tsikhanouskaya’s Office, Coordination Council, NAM on situation in Kazakhstan
A joint statement by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Office, the Coordination Council, and National Anti-Crisis Management on the unacceptability of Belarusian troops deployment for operations abroad.
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Rechytsa resident dies after being detained by police
A 27-year-old Rechytsa resident died on New Year's Eve in a hospital, where he was brought from a police station. On 3 January, it was reported that several friends of…
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Google removes ads showing interrogation of political prisoners
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya turned to Google with a request to stop the abuse of YouTube by the Lukashenko regime and law enforcement agencies, which routinely use it for showing and advertising…
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How Belarusians resisted regime in 2021
Despite the brutal repressions, Belarusians continued to fight Alexander Lukashenko's regime in 2021. Courtyard marches, flash mobs, protest graffiti and leaflets, destruction of surveillance cameras, blocking of railways, and large-scale…
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Authorities label Radio Svaboda as extremist
Belarusian authorities added Radio Svaboda to its registry of extremist organizations, which means that Belarusians who subscribe to it online could face up to six years in prison.
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Belarusian autocrat named most corrupt person of 2021
Alexander Lukashenko has been named Person of the Year in the category "Organized Crime and Corruption" by the OCCRP investigative consortium.
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Draconian sentences in “anarchists’ case”
Activists of the Belarusian anarchist movement Ihar Alinevich, Siarhei Ramanau, Dzmitry Dubouski, and Dzmitry Rezanovich were sentenced to exceptionally long jail terms ranging from 18 to 20 years in medium-…