Belarus is on the brink of extending the 30-year rule of its authoritarian leader, President Alexander Lukashenko, who is ...

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending President Lukashenko's more than 30 years in power.

Strong reporting last week by AP’s Belarus reporter Yuras Karmanau shed light on a little-told element of the historic East-West prisoner exchange — the plight of the Belarusian political prisoners.

Human rights group Viasna says there are some 1,250 political prisoners in Belarus. Lukashenko says there are none. In charge of the country since 1994, he denies rigging elections and says it is ...