Maryya Kalesnikava, a leading opposition activist in Belarus who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in September last year, remains in the hospital after surgery, her father said on November 30.
The Belarusian Interior Ministry has added two RFE/RL journalists to its list of extremists amid an ongoing crackdown on independent media, opposition politicians, rights activists, and democratic institutions.
A Belarusian court has sentenced three members of the opposition United Civic Party for participating in a protest march days after an August 2020 presidential election that handed authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka a sixth term in power despite widespread belief that the vote was rigged.
Belarus prosecutors are seeking eight years in prison for an independent journalist on charges many consider ungrounded and politically motivated as a crackdown on independent media and civil society continues in the country run by the authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka since 1994.