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Activist who helps people flee Belarus is found 'murdered' in Ukraine as kidnapped Olympic sprinter holes up in Tokyo's Polish embassy amid Lukashenko regime's claims she was working for foreign spies Vitaly Shishov, a Belarus activist based in Ukraine who helped his countrymen escape the regime back home, has been found dead in Kiev   Shishov was found hanged in a park near his house a day after going missing  Police have opened a murder probe and will investigate the possibility that he was killed and his death made to look like a suicide  Comes as Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanousk...

EU weighs Belarus sanctions at sectors close to leader By RAF CASERT and BARRY HATTONMay 27, 2021 GMT LISBON, Portugal (AP) — European Union nations sketched out plans Thursday for new sanctions against Belarus, targeting economic sectors close to its authoritarian leader, as they sought to strike back at him for the diversion of a passenger jet to arrest a dissident journalist. Meeting in Lisbon, EU foreign ministers vowed to continue ramping up pressure on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko — whose disdain for democratic norms and human rights has made his country a pariah in th...

Alyaksandr Lukashenka (Source: The Atlantic Council). On July 6, a Belarusian court handed a 14-year prison sentence to Victor Babariko (BelTA, July 6), perhaps President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s strongest political rival. Babariko was arguably best positioned to actually win a would-be free and fair presidential election against the incumbent, if he had been allowed to run last year (see EDM, June 10, 23, July 29, 2020). Under some other circumstances, the allegations leveled against Babariko, including that he took huge bribes while in charge of a bank for 20 years, might have been worthy ...

Polish media have angered critics who say they target the US company Discovery Inc., owner of the TVN broadcaster that’s openly critical of the right-wing government. The changes were published on Poland’s parliament website late Wednesday and were proposed by lawmakers from the governing Law and Justice party that has been taking steps to control the media ever since winning power in 2015. Critics say the party has turned state TVP broadcaster into its mouthpiece and wants to limit media ownership by foreign investors. The TVN broadcaster’s all-news TVN24 channel that exposes alleged i...

US proposes to ban air travel between US and Belarus June 29, 2021 at 4:17 pm FILE In this file photo taken on Monday, June 14, 2021, Belarusian dissident journalist Raman Pratasevich attends a news conference at the National Press Center of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Minsk, Belarus. The dissident Belarusian journalist and his Russian girlfriend who were arrested after their airline flight was diverted to Minsk last month have been moved from jail to house arrest. Raman Pratasevich, who ran a messaging app channel that was widely used in last year’s mas...