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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-…
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Raman Pratasevich’s girlfriend files petition for pardon
Russian national Sofia Sapega, who had been detained along with her boyfriend, journalist Raman Pratasevich after the forced landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk, submitted a petition for a…
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Flight controller says KGB was involved in jet diversion
A former air traffic controller has revealed details of the Ryanair plane's forced landing to Polish investigators. He claims that the incident was a KGB operation.
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Detentions in Belarus spread to multinational companies
Several employees of Belarusian subsidiaries of multinational companies have been recently detained by Belarus authorities. They were forced to appear in "confessional" videos and apologize for their "dissent".
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Human rights activist faces 20 years in prison
NGO volunteer coordinator Marfa Rabkova is facing fresh charges linked to "managing a criminal organization" and “endangering national security” that could mean a prison sentence of up to 20 years.