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Press Club Belarus staff released
After almost eight months of imprisonment, members of Press Club Belarus have been released.
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Searches and arrests of BelaPAN news agency staff
On 18 August, security officials searched the editorial office of the BelaPAN independent news agency and homes of five current and one former employees. Three of them were arrested.
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Angela Merkel: Belarus uses refugees to undermine EU security
Angela Merkel condemned the actions of Alexander Lukashenko in connection with the migrant crisis, asserting that he has been using refugees to undermine the EU security.
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Political prisoners are held in inhumane conditions at Akrestsina detention center
The conditions in which political prisoners are kept at Akrestsina have not improved in July and August 2021.
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Last August, Interior Ministry colonel issued orders to beat up people
Another conversation between security forces via internal Ministry of Internal affairs communications was published by the Cyber Partisans hacktivist group.
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Exactly 1 year ago largest protests in history of Belarus took place
One year ago, on 16 August 2020, mass protests erupted in many Belarusian cities.
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Stsiapan Latypau sentenced to 8.5 years in prison
On 16 August 2021, political prisoner Stsyapan Latypau was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.
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Belarusian state-owned company implicated in migration crisis in Lithuania
Russian and German journalists discovered that Belarusian state-owned company Tsentrkurort assisted hundreds of Iraqi citizens in obtaining Belarusian visas.
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Yara might terminate collaboration with Belaruskali
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and Yara's CEO Svein Tore Holsether discussed human rights and the situation of workers at Belaruskali.
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Court rules TUT.BY and Zerkalo.io as extremist
On 13 August 2021, TUT.BҮ and Zerkalo.io and their social media were declared extremist at the request of the Belarusian Interior Ministry.