Several Swedish lawmakers say they will boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed ... Belarus and Iran to ...

Among the 14 prisoners released in Belarus with the assistance of the United States are three Polish citizens, one Estonian ...

The country’s authoritarian regime continues to hold more than 1,100 political prisoners in abusive conditions.

U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, the highest-profile visit of a U.S.

Sweden in turn recalled its representative in Belarus to Stockholm for consultations, the Swedish Foreign Ministry confirmed to RFE/RL’s Belarus Service on January 5.

After the father was arrested in fall of 2022, the mother and son fled Belarus for Sweden using Italian visas. The daughter joined them afterward, with all three requesting political asylum in Sweden.

Belarusian authorities released by presidential pardon 14 prisoners, all jailed as a result of politically motivated ...

Belarus has freed Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana ...

IKEA furniture was allegedly produced by prisoners in Belarus penal colonies under forced labor conditions, according to a new report by the French non-profit investigative journalism network ...

An Estonian political prisoner detained in Belarus was freed alongside 13 others in a U.S.-backed deal on Saturday.

Anger in Sweden as Nobel Prize organizers invite Russia and Belarus to the award ceremonies The Nobel laureates and the royal family of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Concert ...