News about Belarus

Confronting the #Belarus dictator has always carried great risks. On May 7, 1999, politician Yury Zakharanka, a resolute opponent of Lukashenka, was kidnapped & likely killed by the regime's thugs. We must put an end to three decades of such horrible crimes by this dictatorship! pic.twitter.com/wq2EyJ3Teu

#Belarus I recently spent a day with a young 30-year-old man, a former political prisoner. He was beaten during the arrest. A police officer stepped on his face with a boot as if he was extinguishing a cigarette. pic.twitter.com/bZI0iWdtw0

"There has never been and will never be a threat from the territory of #Belarus. According to our Constitution, no aggression can be committed from the territory of Belarus," said #Lukashenko's Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik. Aleinik seems to inhabit an alternate reality.… pic.twitter.com/8FHbXZjWuQ

6️⃣ #Belarusians were convicted in absentia for the peaceful protests. They were sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment in special proceedings. All of them are abroad and were not present at the trial. This is not the first practice of punishment of Belarusians, who ran away from… pic.twitter.com/I6Cv15dH4l