In Warsaw on 26 January 2025, thousands of Belarusians protested against the "presidential elections" in their home country and carried a large white-red-white flag through the streets of the city. Leading the protest march, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, President-elect of Belarus. Photo: Еврорадио   ISHR: Total control of the dictator Lukashenko Belarusian democracy movement must continue to be supported Minsk/Frankfurt-am-Main, 27 January 2025 - The so-called presidential elections in Belarus

Exactly four years after the uprising of the Belarusian democracy movement in the summer of 2020, the best-known exile organisation ‘Viasna’ presents its infographic ‘4 Years of Mass Repression’. Excerpts from it here at a glance   Looking back: Spring 2020 - 3 presidential candidates eliminated Courageous and powerful men had indeed put themselves on the list of presidential candidates for the election in August 2020 in accordance with democratic

Statistics of Belarusian protest. 4 years of repression There are currently at least 1,385 political prisoners in prison. Some 65,000 people have been arrested in four years as part of political persecution. At least half a million Belarusians have fled Belarus 500,000 More than 74,000 cases of repression have been registered in four years: searches, short-term and long-term detentions, interrogations, etc. At least 6,971 people are known to be criminally

Over the past year, the development of Alexander Lukashenko's authoritarian regime has accelerated towards totalitarianism. Lukashenko preaches unity, but continues to divide his country / Foto © president.gov.by The government sees no reason to stop this development and is encroaching on all possible areas, including people's private lives, their employment, their travel abroad, their education or their historical memory. The Belarusian political scientist Artyom Shraibman analyses how the