Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate who won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus and is one of hundreds of its political prisoners

Ales Bialiatski, Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist, is imprisoned in Belarus, enduring harsh conditions as a political prisoner. President Lukashenko's regime labels Bialiatski and others as extremists,

Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader.

Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials have denounced an orchestrated election that extended the over three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko

The leader of the Belarusian opposition and political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Lithuanian politician and member of the European Parliament /b>Petras Auštrevičius.

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Belarus under Joe Biden has since been released.

Many endure harsh conditions like Bialiatski, 62, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 for his human rights activism and is believed to be in worsening health. Belarus will hold a presidential ...

FILE – Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights group, sits in a defendants' cage at a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 5, 2023. (Vitaly Pivovarchyk ...

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power.

including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski. The vote comes as Belarus remains closely aligned with Russia, even allowing its territory to be used as a staging ground for Moscow’s ...

Lukashenko has been in power in Belarus since 1994 and is seeking ... down and imprisoned over 1,000 people, including Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Viasna Human Rights Centre ...

Britain and Canada on Monday imposed coordinated sanctions on six Belarusian officials and three defence companies, one day after an election extended the rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to a seventh term after all his major opponents were imprisoned or exiled.