State-run media in Myanmar say the head of the military government has declared the country will hold a general election ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko -- a close ally of President Vladimir Putin -- warned that the Kremlin "will never" ...

From the four other candidates that stood against him, Liberal Democratic Party Chairman ... democratic alternative to Lukashenko,' promising to lobby for freeing political prisoners but warning ...

In July 2024, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree releasing 15 political… This article is part of our special report The F.R.E.I.H.E.I.T. Project: tackling disinformation ...

There are currently more than 1,200 political prisoners in Belarus ... some of the other candidates," I told Lukashenko. "One of them, the Communist Party leader, openly supports you.

Human rights group Viasna, which is labelled as an extremist organisation, says there are around 1,250 political prisoners; Lukashenko denies there are any. Ivan Kravtsov, secretary of the ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a sham and introducing additional sanctions. Belarusian political observer ...

MINSK, January 28. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko promised to declare an immediate political amnesty, should at least one political prisoner be found in the republic ...

The international treaty enshrines mutual guarantees on the implementation of necessary measures in case of encroachments on ...

Washington's adversaries are "unquestionably leveraging the detention of U.S. citizens for political gain," an expert told Newsweek.

But, he added, sanctions should be eased only when “Lukashenko stops repression and new arrests” and “releases all political prisoners, including top figures.” Image The exiled Belarusian ...