Tag Archives: Belarus

Refugees and migrants suffer violence or threats in Belarus and are left hungry and cold, according to the UN human rights office.

Brussels, London, Oslo, Warsaw, Paris and Geneva We, the undersigned organisations, welcome the opinion published on 15 December 2021 by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) recognising that Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich is

A Belarusian court hands the opposition leader's husband, Syarhei Tsikhanouski, one of the longest jail terms in the nation's modern history after a court finds him guilty of organising mass unrest and of inciting social hatred.

Syarhei Tsikhanouski, the husband of Belarus's opposition leader, has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for organising mass unrest and inciting social hatred, the official Belta news agency reports.

A court in Belarus on Tuesday sentenced opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky to 18 years in prison after he galvanised an unprecedented protest movement against strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko last year,

The husband of Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has been jailed for 18 years for organising mass unrest and inciting social hatred.

The migrant crisis on the Belarus-Polish border has caused logistics problems for Russian food producers, who are suffering losses and risk having to temporarily stop production if the situation worsens.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has accused Lithuania of killing migrants following reports of another death at the European Union country's eastern border."In this migration crisis, the villains have gone so far as to kill people,

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said Thursday that it has evacuated 617 migrants stranded in Belarus, most of whom are women, children and the elderly. "The ministry's efforts are continuing to evacuate the migrants voluntarily,

A group of around 200 migrants tried to break through the fence on the Polish-Belarus border on Wednesday evening, the Border Guard said on Thursday, as tensions simmer in a crisis regional powers have warned could spill into a wider conflict.