Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
February 2025 - Belarus Special Weapons News
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- Belarus Selling Rapeseed Oil Sourced From Occupied Ukraine To The EU, RFE/RL Finds RFE/RL 25 Feb 2025 -- In June 2022, at a time when swathes of fertile land in southern Ukraine had recently fallen under Russian military occupation, Belarus's pro-Moscow leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenko, boasted of growing European demand for his country's rapeseed oil.
- U.S. Officials In Rare Belarus Visit Seeking Deal On Political Prisoners, Sanctions RFE/RL 16 Feb 2025 -- Three senior U.S. officials traveled to Belarus to negotiate the possible release of a large number of political prisoners in return for an easing of sanctions, The New York Times reported, following the release of three detainees earlier in the week.
- Belarus: Human rights violations remain rampant, some amounting to crimes against humanity, UN Group of Experts says OHCHR 14 Feb 2025 -- The Government of Belarus has committed widespread human rights violations against the country's civilian population, some amounting to crimes against humanity, as part of a brutal effort to quash all opposition to the rule of President Aleksandr Lukashenko, the UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus warned in a new report today.
- Belarus: Violations remain 'widespread and systematic', says independent expert group UN News 14 Feb 2025 -- A new report from UN Human Rights Council-mandated experts monitoring Belarus on Friday said that authorities have been committing widespread human rights violations, some amounting to crimes against humanity, as part of a systematic campaign to silence political opposition.
- RFE/RL Journalist Kuznechyk Released After More Than 3 Years In Belarus Prison RFE/RL 12 Feb 2025 -- Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with RFE/RL's Belarus Service, has been released from a Belarusian prison after being held for more than three years on charges he, his employer, U.S. officials and human rights organizations called politically motivated.
- Welcoming the Release of U.S. Citizen and Political Prisoners from Captivity in Belarus US Dept. of State 12 Feb 2025 -- "President Trump's strong leadership has led to the release of an American unjustly detained in Belarus and two political prisoners."
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