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November 2024

  • Legia Warsaw fans display a protest banner aimed at Alexander Lukashenko during Uefa Conference League earlier this month.

    Presence of Belarus in international football is validation for a pariah state

    Northern Ireland’s tie with eastern European nation can be viewed as a win for president Alexander Lukashenko

October 2024

  • Viachaslau Hranouski standing a street

    ‘I fight Russia to topple the tyrant of Belarus’: the Lukashenko guard who defected to the front line in Ukraine

  • Vladimir Putin in an open-top car with Kim Jong-un during a welcoming ceremony in Pyongyang on 19 June 2024.

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says North Korea providing personnel to Russia’s army

September 2024

  • Dresden, Germany. 06th Dec, 2021. AfD members of the state parliament Jorg Dornau (l-r), Thomas Prantl, Jens Oberhoffner and Doreen Schwietzer stand behind plexiglass screens at the beginning of the session in the public gallery of the state parliament. On the occasion of the state parliament session to determine the epidemic situation in the Free State, the police expect a protest by opponents of the Corona policy. Credit: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Alamy Live News<br>2H9CDEE Dresden, Germany. 06th Dec, 2021. AfD members of the state parliament Jorg Dornau (l-r), Thomas Prantl, Jens Oberhoffner and Doreen Schwietzer stand behind plexiglass screens at the beginning of the session in the public gallery of the state parliament. On the occasion of the state parliament session to determine the epidemic situation in the Free State, the police expect a protest by opponents of the Corona policy. Credit: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Alamy Live News

    German far-right politician accused of using political prisoners as cheap labour in Belarus

    Reports of dissenters working for £4 a day on onion plantation owned by Saxony state parliament AfD member Jörg Dornau

August 2024

  • Andrei Gnyot gives a V for victory sign with one hand while holding documents in the other. He is standing inside an apartment

    Directors and actors urge Serbia not to extradite activist to Belarus

  • Rico Krieger in a cell during an interview with Belarusian state TV

    German decision to release FSB hitman in prisoner swap ‘not taken lightly’

July 2024

  • Rico Krieger seen behind bars during the TV interview

    German man sentenced to death in Belarus pardoned by president

  • Rico Krieger

    German man sentenced to death in Belarus begs for help on state TV

  • The Olympic rings in Paris.

    Russian and Belarusian Olympic athletes accused of supporting war in Ukraine

  • Ukrainian soldiers fire on a Russian artillery position with a Soviet-made 2C1 tank

    German national sentenced to death in Belarus, Berlin confirms

June 2024

  • Andrei Gnyot gives a V for victory sign with one hand as he holds papers in the other

    Serbian court approves extradition of anti-Lukashenko activist to Belarus

    Andrei Gnyot says he fears for his life after organising alliance of athletes to oppose country’s dictator in 2020
  • Conscientious objector Peter Hathorn in Cape Town, South Africa, sitting in front of a white sheet hanging on a frame

    ‘You can’t fight your way to peace’: from a 20-year-old Israeli to a 99-year-old Briton, eight conscientious objectors on why they refused to serve in the army

    Military service for 18-year-olds is a key Tory election pledge in the UK. But in countries with conscription, opting out comes at a heavy cost – ostracisation, fines and time in prison
  • Group photo of Abdulaal Hussein, Mabroka and Martine Doppen. All three are smiling,

    Dutch pair face jail in Latvia after ‘helping refugees in act of compassion’

    Group who crossed from Belarus included sister of one of the accused in case highlighting Latvia’s harsh migration laws

May 2024

  • Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk

    Poland arrests nine suspects over alleged Russian sabotage plot

    Prime minister Donald Tusk says detained are accused of ‘beatings, arson and attempted arson’
  • A young greater spotted eagle

    Eagles shifting flight paths to avoid Ukraine conflict, scientists find

    Vulnerable birds deviating from migratory routes by up to 155 miles, which could affect breeding
  • 'When there's a state trying to kill you, how do you report that news?" Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

    World Press Freedom Day 2024
    ‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk

    Threats from the state have led many journalists across the world to flee their home countries to report from elsewhere. But, for many, the intimidation did not stop when they left

April 2024

  • Polish border guards patrol near a metal wall

    Polish border ‘pushbacks’ back in spotlight after pregnant woman’s ordeal

    Activists say little has changed in treatment of migrants and refugees under Donald Tusk’s new government
  • Leonid Volkov in front of shelves of books.

    Belarusian held in Poland suspected of ordering hammer attack on Navalny ally

    Two Polish citizens detained earlier on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition figure Leonid Volkov in Lithuania
  • A Belarusian woman holds a placard that says ‘Freedom for Belarusian political prisoners’ during a demonstration in Poland in August.

    Belarus prisoner smuggles out account of brutal jail written on toilet paper

    Katsiaryna Novikava is one of hundreds of political prisoners in country ruled by dictator Alexander Lukashenko

March 2024

  • Candles and flowers are left outside Crocus City Hall in the Moscow region in tribute to those who died in the attack.

    Moscow concert attack: fear death toll higher after reports of up to 100 missing

    Telegram channel with ties to security services reports 95 individuals unaccounted for since Friday
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