Citizens of Belarus are at risk of losing their last legal mechanism to appeal against the state for human rights violations, with the government set to withdraw from a key UN treaty.
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, 24, holds a press conference in Poland after fleeing Tokyo Olympics, reveals that she wants to return home one day, when it is safe.
A second Belarus athlete vows not to return home dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Belarusian sprinter arrives in Vienna after evading kidnap attempt by Lukashenko cronies in Japan dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Activist who helps people flee Belarus is found murdered in Ukraine as kidnapped Olympic sprinter holes up in Tokyo s Polish embassy amid Lukashenko regime s claims she was working for foreign spies
Vitaly Shishov, a Belarus activist based in Ukraine who helped his countrymen escape the regime back home, has been found dead in Kiev
Shishov was found hanged in a park near his house a day after going missing
Police have opened a murder probe and will investigate the possibility that he was killed and his death made to look like a suicide
Comes as Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya shelters in the Polish embassy in Tokyo after Olympic officials tried to kidnap her from the Games