by admin | Jan 16, 2024 | Worldnews
[ad_1] A political prisoner, Vadzim Khrasko, has died in a Belarusian prison due to inadequate medical care, according to the Viasna human rights center.Khrasko was serving a three-year sentence for supporting opposition groups labeled as “extremist” by...
by admin | Jan 13, 2024 | Worldnews
[ad_1] A Belarusian journalist went on trial Friday on charges linked to his professional work covering protests, the latest move in a relentless government crackdown on dissent.Photojournalist Alyaksandr Zyankou faces up to six years in prison if convicted on charges...
by admin | Nov 17, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] A human rights activist in Belarus on Thursday began a hunger strike inside prison in the latest protest against the repressive government of Alexander Lukashenko, a rights organization said.The Belarusian human rights organization Viasna said Aliaksandar...
by admin | Nov 11, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] A noted Belarusian dissident author said Friday that his father has been sentenced to two weeks in jail for reposting an article from an opposition website.BELARUS ARRESTS DISSIDENT AUTHOR’S FATHER ON ‘UNCLEAR GROUNDS’Alexander Filipenko was...
by admin | Sep 29, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] In a northern Swiss court, a former Belarusian security operative has been acquitted of involvement in the enforced disappearances of three political opponents of President Aleksander Lukashenko during the late 1990s.Judges in Rorschach, Switzerland, cited a...