The Belarusian Supreme Court banned the United Civic Party a year after Kazlou's arrest. Lukashenko announced an amnesty in early July for some seriously ill political prisoners, and 19 have been ...

One of the five candidates allowed to challenge him, the Communist Party’s Sergei Syrankov ... and Belarusian activist groups ...

The country holds nearly 1,300 political prisoners ... Oleg Gaidukevich, head of the Liberal Democratic Party, supported Lukashenko in 2020 and urged fellow candidates to “make Lukashenko ...

The country holds nearly 1,300 political prisoners ... Oleg Gaidukevich, head of the Liberal Democratic Party, supported Lukashenko in 2020 and urged fellow candidates to “make Lukashenko ...

Candidate Alexander Khizhnyak, head of the Republican Party of Labour and ... “only democratic alternative to Lukashenko”, promising to lobby for freeing political prisoners but warning ...

Sergei Sirankov, first secretary of the Communist Party’s Central Committee ... that there are more than 1,200 political prisoners in the country. Lukashenko released 23 political prisoners ...

a political novice, emerged as an accidental leader of the opposition. Ms. Tikhanovskaya galvanized opponents to Mr. Lukashenko with a highly popular campaign. But the president’s party machine ...

Lukashenko owes his political longevity to a mixture of guile ... leader of the now-outlawed United Civil Party of Belarus. "He relished in calling himself a dictator and bragged about being ...