In Belarus, the KGB security service arrested 8 members of an alleged terrorist group reportedly implicated in a series of violent crimes in Hrodna region, including an IED detonation, and an arson attack
2 month agoBelarusian language service of @RFERL, @Svaboda, compiled all the Sunday protest marches in Minsk, Belarus, since August 2020 onto a single map. It shows decentralised protests, making them harder to be counteracted by the police:
@Tsihanouskaya urged the European Union to impose economic sanctions on Belarus as soon as possible
Lukashenka proposed to turn the All Belarusian People's Assembly into a constitutional body, and to transfer some of the presidential authorities to it, in the context of the upcoming constitutional reform
2 month agoIn Minsk, Belarus, people are painting the national white-red-white flag onto the ice on the frozen Svislach River - in defiance to the ongoing repression.
Lukashenka said that he will ok with the ban on attending the Olympics and other events of the International Olympic Committee
2 month ago"We remain committed to our basic demand. Lukashenka must go. Belarus needs new, free, and fair elections alongside with the constitutional reform based on the Constitution of 1994." @Tsihanouskaya tells @melindaharing in today's ACFrontPage conversation
2 month agoThe legal system in Belarus is completely dysfunctional, it is a system of repressions, but it will not last forever, @Tsihanouskaya is telling the Atlantic Council now
The EU is finalizing the third package of sanctions against the Belarusian authorities and will introduce it in the near future, Borrell said.
2 month agoLukashenka: "Immediately make a list of all parasites who are chatting and force them to work. Today a non-working loafer isn't just a protester on the streets, but a future criminal
A court in Minsk sentenced a native of Belarus Natalya Hershe to 2.5 years in a strict regime colony, who lives in Switzerland and has citizenship of this country
2 month agoMinsk, Yakub Kolas square. Security officials block the movement of participants in the march of pensioners
2 month agoA small column of pensioners has already gathered at Yakub Kolas Square. The avenue is closed, and the square itself is surrounded by the transport of security forces
Over 300 protesters were detained in Belarus on Sunday
There are several dozen detainees in Minsk. Those delivered to the Sovetskoye police station are lined up in the courtyard against the wall
Dec 6. #Minsk now: Dozen troops vs one protester on Burdeiny Street. By 3 pm (local time), nearly 30 persons detained across #Belarus, human rights defenders report. Video: #Belsat viewers #FreedomMarch #BelarusProtest
2 month agoArrest in western Minsk
2 month agoRiot police at Shevchenko boulevard in Minsk
Water cannon deployed at Kyivsky Square in Minsk
2 month agoDetention by plain cloth security officials at Sucharava in Minsk
2 month agoOpposition rally at Logoyskiy way in Minsk, already dispersed and several protesters detained
2 month agoFirst arrests in Minsk today at Kamiennaja Horka
2 month agoMinsk: arrests at Partizanskaya metro station
2 month agoOpposition march in Sucharava today
2 month agoAnother walk in Minsk
The BAJ informs that journalists of the BelaPAN news agency Marina Kharevich and Sergei Lyudkevich were detained in Grodno today
2 month agoSmall-scale protests take place in Grodno Belarus. Photo Charter 97
2 month agoA column of people gathered in Lebyazhye. People are chanting "Long live Belarus"
Metro station reopened in central Minsk, military cordons lifted from Stela monument and central squares
2 month agoTelegram is down in Belarus