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5 days ago · On 17 August, the human rights advocates from the Belarusian education and social association "Zvyano" ("Link") issued the "Report on the violation of human rights of the participants in the protests in Belarus from 7 to 14 August 2020", based on interviews with 30 victims of the police abuse, as well as on interviews with doctors of several ...
- 24 May 2020 – 25 March 2021 (10 months and 1 day)
1 day ago · Belarus first began to cooperate with NATO upon signing documents to participate in their Partnership for Peace Program in 1995. However, Belarus cannot join NATO because it is a member of the CSTO. Tensions between NATO and Belarus peaked after the March 2006 presidential election in Belarus. Human rights and corruption
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4 days ago · On 21 May, we mark the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus. Since the death of political prisoner and activist Vitold Ashurak in prison in May 2021, at least five more political prisoners have died in regime’s places of captivity: Mikalai Klimovich, Ales Pushkin, Vadzim Khrasko, Ihar Lednik, and Aliaksandr Kulinich. They were unjustly persecuted for their ...
2 days ago · Belarus. Belarus, landlocked country of eastern Europe. Until it became independent in 1991, Belarus, formerly known as Belorussia or White Russia, was the smallest of the three Slavic republics included in the Soviet Union (the larger two being Russia and Ukraine ). Belarus. While Belarusians share a distinct ethnic identity and language, they ...
1 day ago · It is to bring attention to these tragic and wholly avoidable deaths under the watch of the state security apparatus that we mark May 21 as the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus. According to the Viasna Human Rights Center, all six of these men – imprisoned on spurious charges simply for opposing or ...
2 days ago · In 2016, the EU-Belarus human rights dialogue was resumed and Belarus adopted a human rights action plan for 2016-2019. Negotiations on a mobility partnership were concluded in 2017, and visa facilitation and readmission agreements entered into force on 1 July 2020.
2 days ago · Alexander Lukashenko (born August 30, 1954, Kopys, Vitebsk oblast, Belorussia, U.S.S.R. [now in Belarus]) is a Belarusian politician who espoused communist principles and who became president of the country in 1994. Lukashenko graduated from the Mogilyov Teaching Institute and the Belarusian Agricultural Academy.
