On #InternationalWomensDay we remind the world that 164 women political prisoners are unjustly imprisoned in #Belarus.
Talented journalists, doctors, human rights defenders, artists, scientists, lawyers, and other professionals are unlawfully deprived of their freedom.
✊ Women must be free!
Source : YouGov
The Belarusian opposition leader claims Russia and Belarus are promoting a fringe historical theory that could be used by President Putin to justify a future invasion
John Bolton: Our biggest mistake in the 1990s and during the Bush administration was leaving Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus in a gray zone - not pushing harder for their eventual NATO membership.
Eastern and Central Europeans were begging for protection from Russia. We expanded NATO but left
#Belarus No transit of potash. No lifting EU sanctions. Don't sell illusions that it will "stabilise" the regime. What it stabilises is its capacity for provocations. Sanctions don't topple regimes but they contain them: raising repression costs and shrinking military capacity.
The European Commission is pushing hard to extend Chat Control 1.0 - allowing mass scanning of private messages without court orders for another two years. Contact your MEPs TODAY via fightchatcontrol.eu to defend your privacy and digital rights!
⚡ Zelenskyy: "Belarus in 2020 is the clearest example. No one helped its people. And now Russian Oreshnik missiles are deployed in Belarus, with ranges that reach most European capitals."
In our lifetime:
Iran will be free! 💚🤍❤️🦁
Ukraine will win! 🇺🇦
Georgia will be free! 🇬🇪🇪🇺
Belarus will be free! ❤️🤍❤️
Venezuela will be free! 🇻🇪
Für Menschen, die aus der Haft in Belarus freikommen, gibt es ein breites Netz der Solidarität. Doch selbst die größte Hilfe ist nicht groß genug.
🇸🇪 Nuns from Belarus suspected of espionage in Sweden, – The Telegraph
These are nuns who publicly supported Russia: they prayed for the so-called “heroes of our country” and collected aid for the Russian military.
Worst possible timeline
Fucking hell...
Maria Zaitseva was brutally injured during #Belarus's 2020 protests and later evacuated to Czechia for treatment. She didn't stay away. She first volunteered to help Ukrainians - and then joined the frontline as a fighter.
She was killed a year ago, one day after her 24th birthday.
#Belarus The regime keeps arresting people even as it tries to appear open and ready for dialogue. The repressive machine works just as before. Belarusian human rights defenders have juts recognised +14 new political prisoners.
#Belarus Ales Bialiatski, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has written an article for the New York Times. He stresses that large segments of the population reject the dictatorship, and that we must distinguish between Belarus & Russia, and between the people & the regime. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/o...
Belarusian dictator may have found a sanctions loophole: jailing his own citizens — then trading their freedom for sanctions relief.
#Belarus: RSF reveals the existence of a previously unknown spyware tool, used since at least 2021 by the KGB against journalists. Installed after the physical confiscation of phones, #ResidentBat constitutes a grave violation of press freedom. RSF calls for a ban on these surveillance technologies.
In one of his first interviews, Ales Bialiatski said: "We must convey to the international community: repression in #Belarus must end. Releasing prisoners isn't enough. Otherwise, this prisoner trading will go on - freeing some, jailing others, demanding new concessions."
Here’s how Maria Kalesnikava is meeting Viktar Babaryka and Maksim Znak after they unjustly spent more than five years behind bars.
I am crying from happiness. Such a relief to see them and others free!
Amazing!
The GDPR set the global standard for privacy legislation. Now the European Commission wants to gut GDPR privacy protections with its "Digital Omnibus" proposal. Don't be fooled—this threatens everyone's privacy rights. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Map of countries in the EU that are opposing, proposed and in favor of Chat Control.
Huge Victory: #ChatControl no longer forces us to break #encryption. 🎉
🚨But: It now wants #AgeVerification.
The Trilogue starts today 🗓️
You've helped us stop #backdoors: tuta.com/blog/chat-co...
Now, help us stop #AgeVerification! 👇️
fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool
#Fight4Privacy
Title: Switzerland plans surveillance that is worse than US Broken shield with a Swiss flag on it
Swiss surveillance could become worse than US
If passed, chat, email & VPN providers from #Switzerland must:
🚨 Log IP addresses
🚨 Ask for ID upon sign up
🚨 Decrypt data upon request
Let's fight for #privacy! 👉 tuta.com/blog/switzer...
A Help Stop #ChatControl! Poster, the post includes a map of the EU member states and whether or not they are opposing, undecided or infavour of the legislation.
🚨 Attention EU Citizens 🚨
💬 Chat Control could mandate all services to scan all private digital communications of everyone residing in the European Union, and it's currently waiting to be green-lit by the EU Parliament tomorrow.
#chatcontrol #privacy #eu
@tvpworld.bsky.social @euronews.com why are you not reporting this?
Peter Hummelgaard saying: "We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services."
🚨 They are bringing back #ChatControl 🚨
Hummelgaard doesn't understand that no means no.
Discussion is scheduled for tomorrow, so act now: fightchatcontrol.eu
#No2Backdoors #Privacy #Security
Source: noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
netzpolitik.org/2025/interne...
What happened today? Behind closed doors, the Law Enforcement Working Party group approved the revised Danish Chat Control compromise with broad support. While mandatory scanning had officially been dropped, Article 4 of the new text reframes and reintroduces it by obliging providers of e-mail, chat, and messenger services to take “all appropriate risk mitigation measures”. This effectively forces providers to scan all messages, including private, end-to-end encrypted content. The same article outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service, kneecapping whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who depend on anonymity. Article 6 further imposes a digital house arrest and would ban minors from installing software which comes with a significant risk of grooming, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and online games like Roblox. What happens next? The legislation now moves to the Coreper (Committee of Permanent Representations) for approval. Without major political objections, the Council will formally adopt its position. At this stage, both the Council and Commission unite in imposing mass surveillance on all 450 million citizens of the European Union and we enter a rushed trilogue. Unfortunately, while the mandate of the European Parliament does not suffer from the same flaws, the Parliament is traditionally known for giving in. What now? We raise our voices. Louder.
✂️ The #EU Commission has set in motion a potentially massive #GDPR reform. Officially, the changes should only include targeted adjustments for several laws. In reality, the current draft would randomly mow down people's #privacy rights.
👉 Read more: noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Belarus continues to lock up anyone who criticizes the government. The Belarusian journalists Igor Ilyash and Katsiaryna Andreyeva, who are married, have both been detained for their work — showing how President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s repressive machine grinds on despite warming ties with the U.S.
News of “authoritarian stability”:
In Belarus, a YouTube channel featuring children’s fairy tales in the Belarusian language has been declared “extremist.”
The stories were about hedgehogs, mice, and foxes. The forced Russification of the country continues.
