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

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

In contrast, discussions among people in and from Belarus - on the streets, in chats and social media, in our conversations with friends (many of whom have been arrested, ...

Belarus does have an established asylum system. There are 303 people with refugee status in Belarus, mainly from Afghanistan, Georgia and Syria, according to UNHCR figures as of October.

Belarus has released 14 people from detention, including two Japanese nationals, as US special envoy for Ukraine Keith ...

Mass arrests and convictions of government critics in Belarus have continued since 2020, when Belarusian President Alexander ...

People are living on shelves in the packing warehouse. BRUZGI, Belarus -- Parsa Akram now lives with her mother, father and brother under a warehouse shelf. The space is about 2 meters wide. The ...

Belarus is a country in Eastern Europe bordering Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Russia. It has a population of around 9.5 million people, and people there speak a combination of Russian ...

A lot of people have been describing the feeling in Belarus as like a heartbeat: up, down, up, down; success, failure, success, failure. The first night I went to the protests as a citizen, not a ...

Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya says people 'will never be able to forgive' president. Tikhanovskaya spoke to ABC News Saturday in her only American TV interview.

An American was among three people released from prison by the government of Belarus, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. Adam Boehler, the US special envoy for hostages, told reporters ...

The images at the Belarus-Poland border look familiar, but this emergency has little in common with previous waves of people from Syria, Myanmar and Afghanistan. By Richard Pérez-Peña A crowd of ...