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Following a disputed 2020 election, hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets with calls for democracy and the resignation of strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka. A podcast series by RFE/RL's Belarus Service documents how the state has locked the country in a prison of fear ever since.
Despite the world's attention being diverted by several grave humanitarian crises, Belarusians continue to endure an unprecedented level of repression.
A Belarusian man accused of insulting authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka has died in a pretrial detention center in the city of Brest, just days before his trial was to begin.
In a diplomatic engagement, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg welcomed Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the Belarusian opposition leader, for a pivotal…
Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya urged democracies to “show their teeth” after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison. The same week, a fifth Belarusian political prisoner died in custody. Meanwhile, early balloting for parliamentary elections in Belarus starts, with Lukashenko's law enforcers preparing to detain citizens if they cause “disruption at polling stations.”