View Europe should welcome in journalists forced to leave Belarus | View "The people of Belarus deserve to know the doors of other European countries are open to them." 23/07/2021
brussels bureau 'Unacceptable': Belarus accused of using migrants in its fight with EU Brussels says Belarus is facilitating illegal crossings into Lithuania to put "political pressure" on the European Union. 12/07/2021
Lithuania Frontex to 'significantly' up support along Lithuania-Belarus border Frontex said in a statement that it will more than double its number of officers and patrol cars in Lithuania. 11/07/2021
Belarus Belarus: meet two women who are risking prison to maintain dissent Meet Sophia and Natallia. They are still openly against the government's continued crackdown on dissent. But their lives are complicated. 05/07/2021
Belarus Belarus' president says Western states are trying to overthrow him Alexander Lukashenko accused the US and Germany as well as neighbours Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland of preparing to remove him from power. 03/07/2021
Belarus Belarus says it has dismantled 'terror cells' with ties to West President Alexander Lukashenko said the "terrorist sleeper cells" allegedly plotting a coup against him had ties with Germany, Ukraine, the US, Poland and Lithuania. 02/07/2021
Lithuania 'A pathetic revenge policy': Is Belarus enabling illegal migration? The number of people who illegally crossed into Lithuania from Belarus shot up in June following condemnation over the forced landing of a Ryanair flight to arrest a journalist. 30/06/2021
Belarus Belarus cuts cooperation on migration with EU over sanctions The EU on Thursday slapped new bruising economic sanctions on Belarus over last month's diversion of a passenger jet to arrest a dissident journalist. 28/06/2021
state of the union Europe's week: Hungary's LGBT law dominates agenda Last week, the Hungarian parliament passed a new law that bans the portrayal of homosexuality and sex reassignment in school education material and TV programmes addressed to people under 18 years of age. 25/06/2021
World UN warns world in 'severe cascade of human rights setbacks' The United Nations' Human Rights chief called for "concerted action" to recover from "the most wide-reaching and severe cascade of human rights setbacks in our lifetimes." 22/06/2021
Belarus Ryanair CEO says pilot given no 'alternatives' but to land in Belarus The pilot of the Ryanair flight that was diverted to Belarus wasn't given "any great alternatives" but to land in Minsk, CEO Michael O'Leary said. 15/06/2021
Belarus Belarusian journalist arrested off flight was 'hostage' at briefing The Belarusian dissident journalist who was arrested after authorities diverted a Ryanair flight to Minsk was present at a foreign ministry press briefing on Monday. 14/06/2021
