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Maria Lvova-Belova, a Russian official wanted by the International Criminal Court for abducting Ukrainian children, visits Minsk to discuss the “protection of children.” Hungary’s foreign minister makes a second controversial visit to Minsk. Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko invites Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to visit Belarus.
Ales Pushkin, a "talented and fearless" artist who once dumped a load of manure outside the office of Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka and depicted top officials as condemned sinners in a church mural of the Last Judgement, has died in prison under mysterious circumstances.
Belarusian artist and political prisoner Ales Pushkin died early Tuesday at a hospital where he was urgently transferred from a prison facility, the Belarusian human rights center Viasna reported, citing the artist’s wife. The reasons for the 57-year-old dissident's hospitalization in intensive care as well as the circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear.
Imprisoned Belarusian journalist Maryna Zolatava, the editor of her country’s leading independent media outlet, TUT.BY, has not given up hope although the authorities have branded her as a “terrorist” and she is facing more than ten years in prison in a trial that began on 9 January. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns this travesty of justice and calls for the release of this emblematic figure of journalism.
The political crisis that has gripped Belarus for the past 18 months has seen president Aliaksandr Lukashenka (the preferred Belarusian spelling; “A