Lilya Lukashenko News Today

MEPs at committee level are seeking greater protection against lawsuits aimed at silencing and intimidating journalists and civil society in Europe.

EU small print sheds light on Belarus repression Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko (r) with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in June (Photo: Viktor Orban) Brussels, 21. Dec 2020, 08:34 Details of last weeks new EU sanctions on Belarus have shed light on how the regime is trying to crush a peaceful uprising. "According to witnesses, he personally supervised and took part in torturing unlawfully detained protesters," the EUs legal gazette, the Official Journal, said of Siarhei Kalinni...