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Follow RT on A leading British parliamentarian has called for the blocking of the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, in response to the arrest of a Belarusian opposition activist on a plane diverted to Minsk on Sunday evening. Tom Tugendhat, a Tory MP and chair of the foreign affairs committee in Westminster, also said the existing  “Yamato” (sic) energy pipeline “must be frozen” in response to the arrest of Roman Protasevich in Minsk over the weekend. The most likely autocorrected name was a reference to the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which supplies Germany and...

BBC News Published media captionRoman Protasevich's father tells the BBC he is fearful his son may be tortured The father of a journalist who was arrested after his flight was diverted to Belarus has told the BBC he fears his son may be tortured. Roman Protasevich, 26, was on a flight from Greece which was rerouted to Minsk on Sunday over a supposed bomb threat. Western countries accused Belarus of "hijacking" the Ryanair plane in order to arrest the dissident reporter. A video has also emerged of Mr Protasevich that appears to have been recorded under duress. In the clip, which was released ...

May 5, 2021 Share Belarus has never had a strong tradition for media freedom but a mass crackdown after contested elections last year has made an already repressive situation even more dire, local journalists say. More than 500 journalists have been detained since August last year, when long-term leader President Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory and the opposition leader was forced to flee. Collectively, they have spent upwards of 1,200 days in jail, according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ). A further 60 journalists were injured as police violently shut down pr...

MOSCOW (AP) — Every day, like clockwork, to-do lists for those protesting against Belarus' authoritarian leader appear in the popular Telegram messaging app. They lay out goals, give times and locations of rallies with business-like precision, and offer spirited encouragement. “Today will be one more important day in the fight for our freedom. Tectonic shifts are happening on all fronts, so it’s important not to slow down,” a message in one of Telegram's so-called channels read Tuesday. “Morning. Expanding the strike … 11:00. Supporting the Kupala (theater) ... 19:00. Gat...

The dictatorship suffers the most powerful blows. Peter Kuznetsov, founder of Strong News and Mogilev.Online, wrote on his Telegram channel about the key and most terrible mistake of the Belarusian authorities. - Now, when many people wear sackcloth and ashes and keep repeating that "the protest has deflated", only few remember that experts (including the author of these lines) forecasted the winter decline of activity in early autumn, as well as the aggravation of the crisis and corrosion of the current system under the influence of absolutely different factors. When forecasts turn into a cu...