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Ukraine’s intelligence service: Terrorist attack may target Belarusian nuclear power plant
The Ukrainian military intelligence service reports that Russian special services are planning a number of terrorist attacks on Belarusian infrastructure, including the Belarusian nuclear power plant. This information has not…
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IKEA allegedly procured products made by prisoners in Belarus: What company says
Has IKEA worked with Belarusian suppliers that use prison labor, including that of political prisoners?
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Young artist from Minsk sentenced to 4 years in prison
A 20-year-old artist from Minsk Andrei Raptunovich was sentenced to four years of imprisonment for his intention to join the Kastus Kalinouski Regiment, which fights on the Ukrainian side, and…
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Kalinouski Regiment soldiers speak about liberation of Kherson: “It will be the same in Belarus”
"Everyone has probably already seen footage of soldiers being greeted with flowers and carried by people. Everything was literally like this! All these people displaying Ukrainian symbols – it was…
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Belarusian courts use Soviet-style punitive psychiatry to isolate dissidents
Three days before his release, political prisoner, Yury Kavaliou was convicted again for "disobedience to the penal colony administration" and sentenced to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
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Repression at National Academy of Sciences: scientists give lectures to one another in prison
Security forces detained at least 44 scientists during a "raid" on the National Academy of Sciences in early November. Criminal cases were launched against some of them. Now all the…
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Political prisoner Kseniya Lutskina receives no medical care in prison
The father of journalist Kseniya Lutskina, who had been sentenced to eight years of imprisonment, told the Narodnaya Volya newspaper that her health had deteriorated significantly: her asthma had flared…
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2 years passed since Raman Bandarenka’s death. Who was held accountable for it?
Raman Bandarenka was abducted from the Square of Changes and beaten up by security officers on November 11, 2020. He succumbed to his injuries at the hospital the next day.…
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6 defendants in “Tsikhanouski case” are to pay 8.5 million euros to policemen
The six people convicted in the so-called "Tsikhanouski case" will have to pay police officers 22 million Belarusian rubles (about 8,450,000 euros) "for overtime duty during the post-election protests". The…
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114 people sentenced to 425 years of imprisonment in October alone
At least 114 people were convicted in politically motivated criminal cases in Belarus in October 2022, reports the Viasna Human Rights Center.