#Belarus

Fruitful meeting with @Tsihanouskaya. Her courage & tireless work for progress in #Belarus is a true inspiration. We call on #Lukashenko to release political prisoners, stop repression and violence and respect the will of the people of Belarus for free & fair elections.pic.twitter.com/YP3YNjoPFV

Europe’s Economic Recovery, #Russia, #Trade and #Belarus top EPP Political Assembly agenda https://epp.org/3jp8Qrx pic.twitter.com/uSE3ZjouAa

#Belarus These people are most amazing and brave! It requires so much strength and courage to protest these days in Belarus. I am in awe of their resilience pic.twitter.com/Eq85oPzVt2

#Belarus Brilliant and fearless Belarusian women have come out to the streets again. This time, they walked around a prison in the centre of Hrodna in support of political prisoners. pic.twitter.com/FPz4Sv6koP

Appropriations Comm. of US House of Represent. recommended foreign aid for #Belarus to be no less than $30 million in the fiscal year 2022. It's double of what the State Department has requested in their budget justification. In 2021, the US govt allocated $11 million for Belarus pic.twitter.com/wRUPlcBn2R

#Belarus Rolls-Royce replied to Belarusians in the UK confirming that it has ceased all business with BelAZ in line with the recent EU sanctions imposed on this enterprise. BelAZ is one of the companies where workers have been jailed for up to three years for striking pic.twitter.com/XL85se0L99

#Belarus The trial over Mikola Dziadok has begun. He spoke about how badly he was beaten during detention. Police used tear gas, threatened to rape him,beat him on legs, hands, face. At some point, a policeman said that he got tired to beat Dziadok and needs help of his colleague pic.twitter.com/PPZEWLAovS

#Belarus Raman Pratasevich has been moved to house arrest.I received the information about this potential transfer on June 21 and immediately called his parents.They knew nothing back then. Now the regime doesn't allow them to communicate.He lives with KGB parents in an apartment pic.twitter.com/iMt0BRkbRN

#Belarus Yesterday, Sofia Sapiega's parents met with her. They said that she had been under house arrest for two or three days. This coincides with my information that both were supposed to get moved under house arrest around June 21. There were agents observing Sofa all the time pic.twitter.com/MN8AXnCSv5

On 30 June 2020, Soviet Soldier Memorial in #Rzhev was solemnly unveiled by President of #Russia V.#Putin & President of #Belarus A.#Lukashenko. It is dedicated to Red Army soldiers who have fallen in Battle of Rzhev (1942-1943) of the Great Patriotic War #OurCauseIsJustpic.twitter.com/6kRZJxFCed

“I want to rest but I don’t dare”. I asked ⁦@Tsihanouskaya⁩ where she gets her strength from #Belarus pic.twitter.com/JQyooP7J0a

#Belarus I watch my friends, brilliant colleagues, analysts and experts being detained and threatened every day. How brutal this regime is. Andrei Aliaksandrau, the prominent journalist and media manager, faces up to 15 years in prison for "treason against the state." pic.twitter.com/WRBCfszV2x

#Belarus These are postcards that show the drawings of political prisoners. Many of them are my friends. All of them are brilliant humans who are deprived of basic rights and are in danger in jail. All my choices and activities are about helping set them free. It is personal pic.twitter.com/24Lbmdc396

#Belarus Exactly one year ago, police knocked on the door of Ihar Losik's apartment. Ihar is a prominent blogger and my friend. He was arrested and never got out of jail since then. He survived two hunger strikes and attempted to cut his wrists protesting against his charges pic.twitter.com/z7bNOCYfsS

The very interesting analysis of the new dynamics happening today in the #Belarus society, among workers, the elites, and silovikis by @franakviacorka at @HJS_Org event demonstrates that there is room for optimism. #LetItBepic.twitter.com/HRehs5rUQa

#Belarus decided to recall its permanent representative to the EU for consultations and "recommended" the head of the EU delegation in #Minsk to do the same. In addition, representatives of European structures who contributed to sanctions will be prohibited from entering Belaruspic.twitter.com/zjXgE63fJT

WHY Lukashenka's TV broadcaster BT should be deprived broadcasting rights for @Olympics in #Belarus (thread) 1/6 According to the UN, "torture and ill-treatment of peaceful protesters has become commonplace since the controversial presidential election on 9 August". pic.twitter.com/vcuXyYPrmZ

At the meeting with the co-chair of @epp member party BCD from #Belarus & member of the Presidium of the Coordination Council Olga Kavalkova, I reiterated EPP’s commitment to democracy & freedom in the country & our continuous demand for the release of all the political prisoners pic.twitter.com/1UjZKH28WG

#Belarus That's a new level. During the Minsk triathlon, security forces stopped cyclists. It happened at least a few times. It's not clear where those cyclists are. The wife of one of them says that her husband might have a white-red-white bracelet on his hand pic.twitter.com/lCFr5Kx5qd

#Belarus The new sanctions on the regime. Bans on: - surveillance equipment - dual-use goods Restrictions on trade in: - petroleum products - potash - goods used in a tobacco industry - insurance to the government, the EIB payments, access to EU capital markets and more. pic.twitter.com/4qGkUmdItX