Europe
On December 13, Belarus released 123 political prisoners. The political prisoners range from civil society activists to journalists, who were arrested and incarcerated for their opposition to Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime. Released prisoners include Belarusian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava and Viktar Babaryka, Lukashenko’s would-be challenger
Canada
At the annual General Meeting of the Fédération nationale des communications et de la culture (FNCC–CSN) in Montreal from June 9-11, 2025, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) and the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) jointly presented a powerful photo exhibition, “Prison des médias au cœur de l’Europe (Media Prison in the Centre of Europe)”. The
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