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

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

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 ...

Lukashenko says there are no political prisoners in Belarus and that those behind bars are law-breakers who chose their own ...

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

Belarus is a country of opportunities, and Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko is an architect of stability. New assessments of Minsk’s policy and Belarus’ potential, including for foreign ...

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

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

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

He called on Trump to use his influence to free other political prisoners in Belarus, saying Trump only needed to ask. "Trump can do it with one word. He can. Please," a tearful Tsikhanouski said.