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Cyber Partisans publish recordings of phone calls wiretapped by government
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…
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Tsikhanouskaya: “If we had won then, the suburbs of Kyiv would not have been ravaged by war and destruction”
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.
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After 21 months in Swedish Embassy father and son flee Belarus
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…
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Political prisoner with stage IV cancer sentenced to 5 years in prison
Pavel Kuchynski, a political prisoner with stage IV cancer, was sentenced to five years in prison. He was charged with insulting Lukashenko and representatives of the authorities, as well as…
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Already 129 verdicts in biggest political case in Belarus
Hearings in the biggest criminal trial since the 2020 Belarusian protests continue in Brest. One hundred and twenty-nine people have already been convicted.
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New law grants wider death penalty use in Belarus
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.
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May 21 declared Day of Political Prisoner in Belarus
Human rights activists designated May 21 the Day of the Political Prisoner in Belarus. As of now, more than 1,200 people have been officially recognized as political prisoners in the…
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Russian citizen Sofia Sapega sentenced to 6 years in prison
Russian citizen Sofia Sapega was sentenced to six years in a penal colony. She was detained along with journalist Raman Pratasevich on 23 May 2021 at the Minsk airport after…
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Two Wikipedia editors detained in Belarus
In Belarus, Wikipedia contributors who wrote articles or made edits about the repressions in Belarus after the 2020 elections and the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine are being persecuted.
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7 people detained in Belarus for photos and videos of Russian military equipment
Seven criminal cases were opened in Belarus for sending information about the movement of Russian military equipment to "extremist" Telegram channels. The detainees face years of imprisonment.