With so many political prisoners still behind bars, Lukashenko’s selective pardons fall far short of systemic change. Yet they signal a calculated bid to shed pariah status and rebalance Belarus’s ...

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Released last month after five years behind bars in Belarus, opposition firebrand Syarhey Tsikhanouski told RFE/RL he will continue to push against Aleksandr Lukashenko's rule and fight for the ...

Syarhey Tsikhanouski was jailed in May 2020 while attempting to run for president against authoritarian Belarusian leader ...

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 politically motivated charges, said Pavel Sapelka, a rights advocate with the ...

Just hours after news broke that Belarusian dissident Siarhei Tsikhanouski had been released from prison and relocated to Lithuania, AP reporter Yuras ...

Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Belarus' key opposition figure, is free after spending nearly five years in jail. His wife, Sviatlena , talks about taking up her husband's mantle after his imprisonment.

Belarusian dissident Siarhei Tsihanouski says he was held in solitary confinement, in conditions similar to torture, during five years in prison.

Siarhei Tsikhanouski and 13 other prisoners have been released from jail and are now free in Lithuania, the neighbouring country's government said.