Last month, the Belarusian government pardoned and released 14 prisoners, but at least 60 more people were arrested on ...

The newly pardoned prisoners were convicted on a variety of criminal charges, including extremism — a charge often used ...

U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, the highest-profile visit of a U.S.

Key dissendent figure Siarhei Tsikhanouski, longtime radio correspondent Ihar Karnei, and 12 others walked free after ...

Belarus has freed Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana ...

The West needs to keep up pressure on Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to try to force democratic change, newly ...

Sergei Tikhanovsky was kept isolated in bare, tiny cells and tells the BBC that Belarus must free other political prisoners.

The Belarusian authorities have released 14 political prisoners, including Siarhei Tsikhanouski, the husband of opposition ...

Belarus’s security services are known to pressure political prisoners into confessing to alleged crimes or to making apologies to Lukashenko. Sergei Tikhanovsky -- the husband of exiled opposition ...

The outreach to Belarus’s autocratic leader, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, comes as the country has released at least 14 political ...

The country’s authoritarian regime continues to hold more than 1,100 political prisoners in abusive conditions.

The Viasna rights group says there are currently 1,164 political prisoners in Belarus. Lukashenko has ruled Belarus since 1994.