Since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, was killed by the Morality Police in fall of 2022, Iran has been enveloped in protests. The movement, called “Woman, Life, Freedom” is in many ways ...

Roman Protasevich, founder of the social media news channel NEXTA, played a crucial role in the anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus. The mother of Belarusian blogger Roman Protasevich, who was ...

President Alexander Lukashenko, often dubbed "Europe's last dictator," offered to free Anastassia Nuhfer whose arrest was ...

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on ...

Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for more than 30 years and just won another election widely ...

The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner with 80% of the vote. That triggered cries of fraud, months of protests ...

An Interior Ministry video showed helmeted riot police beating their shields with truncheons as a way to prepare for dispersing a protest. Another featured an officer arresting a man posing as a voter ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander ... a sham — much like the last one in 2020 that triggered months of protests that were unprecedented in the history of the country of 9 million ...

Despite the objections of her family, in 2020, Zaytsava traveled from her hometown of Homel, in southeastern Belarus, to join the protests in Minsk. On the evening of August 9, 2020, she was among ...

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

Since Belarus’s disputed presidential elections on August 9, hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have taken to the streets. Their protests have been met with extreme police brutality.