An imprisoned Nobel laureate underscores human rights abuses in Belarus
Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate who won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus ...
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Belarus convicts well-known activist and sentences him to 6 years in prison
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus convicted a well-known opposition activist and sentenced him to six years in prison, the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights group ...
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Imprisoned Belarus activist resurfaces after being held incommunicado for over 700 days
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An imprisoned opposition activist in Belarus resurfaced Wednesday in a video shot by a pro-government blogger after over 700 days of no contact with his family ...
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Catholic priest in Belarus sentenced to 11 years as crackdown on dissent continues
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Catholic priest in Belarus on Monday was convicted on charges of high treason for criticizing the government and handed an 11-year sentence, in the first case of ...
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Catholic priest in Belarus sentenced to 11 years as crackdown on dissent continues
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Is a Putin Ally in Eastern Europe Making a Cautious Overture to the West?
Belarus has been subject to an escalating series ... He covers a region that stretches from the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Kosovo, Serbia and other parts of former ...
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When The United States Broke Into 2 Countries, Had 2 Presidents, 2 Flags
At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. USSR had dissolved into Russia and fourteen ...