Catastrophic Situation : How Lukashenka s Government Subjugated Belarus s Already Weak Judiciary globalsecurity.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalsecurity.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Lawyers say the last vestiges of judicial independence and defense advocacy have been destroyed since the brutal crackdown on dissent by Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka following pro-democracy protests in 2020.
Hassan Draoftadeh, the father of a 16-year-old boy who was killed last month in the western Iranian city of Piranshahr, says that security agents summoned him and pressured him to say his son was killed by Kurdish groups and not by the Iranian government.
The deputy chairman of the independent Labor Union of Belarus has been handed a 30-month prison term for telling factory workers to consider forming a strike committee as a crackdown on dissent continues in the country.