Belarus Accuses U.S. of Rights Abuses
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Angered at being targeted by the United States for its poor human rights record, Belarus hit back with a resolution accusing the U.S. government of disenfranchising voters, abusing prisoners and other rights violations.
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Belarus on Thursday dismissed new financial sanctions imposed by the United States as politically senseless, and President Alexander Lukashenko said his country was ready to normalize relations with Washington.
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The people of Belarus know oppression. They know hardship and misfortune on a scale far beyond most corners of the world. So it should be no surprise to learn that an entire countryâs great
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An American citizen who is under arrest in Belarus did not have diplomatic immunity, press secretary of the Belarussian Foreign Ministry Andrei Savinykh said in Minsk on Thursday.
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Opposition parties claimed widespread irregularities in Sunday&#39;s election in Belarus, where President Alexander Lukashenko is seeking a constitutional amendment allowing him to run for a third term.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the tactics used on prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the US military as &quot;tantamount to torture,&quot; The New York Times reported this week.
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A U.N. investigator accused the United States on Friday of human rights violations in its fight against terrorism, criticizing the use of military commissions to try civilians and interrogation practices.
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In a rare admission, the United States said on Tuesday its own human rights record was in question in an annual report that criticized Iraq for its death squads with government links, kidnapping and torture.
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Belarus believes that the United States has big problems with the observation of human rights, including the meeting of commitments to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the republic's ...
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The Bush administration may impose sanctions against leaders of the former Soviet republic of Belarus as part of a broader range of punitive measures, the State Department said Thursday.
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Police clash with opposition activists, who protest against the nationwide referendum preliminary results in a square near the presidential administration, in Minsk, Belarus, Oct 18, 2004.
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The United Nations demanded Belarus free an American arrested while working on a United Nations project in the ex-Soviet republic, but the country's spy service on Thursday insisted the man was not protected by ...
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President Alexander Lukashenko vowed Tuesday to retain tight control over the KGB in Belarus, saying the security agency should do more to monitor political dissent. Human rights activists said the move signaled a further crackdown of opposition groups in the former Soviet republic.
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American and European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the US military of using interrogation methods that amount to torture at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
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The Belarus government has warned that some American officials will be barred from entering Belarus in response to the recent expansion of U.S. visa restrictions on Belarusian authorities.
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The United States condemned what it called the "spurious" theft conviction of a Belarus opposition politician, and said it was considering reprisals against the officials responsible.