Canada and its allies on Friday called on Belarus to release the nearly 1,400 political prisoners being held in detention and laid new sanctions to mark the fourth anniversary of the country’s disputed presidential election. The co-ordinated sanctions target Belarusian individuals and entities over what Canada and Britain said were human rights abuses committed against … Read more
The exiled leader of the opposition to Belarus’ authoritarian government says her country’s struggle for democracy is also one for its sovereignty as Russia continues to draw Belarus into its war on Ukraine. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who fled to Lithuania in 2020 after President Alexander Lukashenko deployed a severe crackdown on protests against his disputed election … Read more
The most important phone call of Yevhen Mezhevyi’s life came in mid-June of 2022. His anxiety, fear and exhaustion at the time makes him fuzzy about the exact date. What he does remember is the sound of his son’s voice. Matvii was calling from Russia, where he and his two younger sisters had been forcibly … Read more
