The Latest Breaking News from Ales Bialiatski

Hungary’s top diplomat has visited Belarus for talks on expanding ties despite the European Union’s sanctions against the country

The wife of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski says she's increasingly worried about his worsening condition as he marks his 1,000th day in prison

FRANCE 24 spoke to Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 alongside the Russian NGO Memorial and Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski. Matviichuk has advocated for the creation of a “special tribunal” to hold Russian President Vladmir Putin,…

The wife of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and activist Ales Bialiatski says he has been transferred to solitary confinement at his prison in Belarus

One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly, Narges Mohammadi sat down in her prison cell to write a letter to the country’s women. She promised: “We shall not back down until the moment of victory, meaning the…

The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged Iran to release imprisoned peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and let her accept the award at the annual prize ceremony in December

Belarusian authorities have declared the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights group an extremist organization

Artist and political activist Ales Pushkin, 57, has died in a prison in what his wife said were ‘unclear circumstances’.

A Belarusian artist who dumped manure outside an office of President Alexander Lukashenko has died in a prison, where he was serving a five-year sentence

For nearly three years, a harsh crackdown on dissent in Belarus by its authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has filled the country’s penal colonies with thousands of political prisoners, with new arrests reported daily

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