Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on September 16 pardoned 37 prisoners convicted of “extremist offences” — a term Minsk uses to describe political prisoners — in a fresh round of amnesties. Belarus has hundreds of political prisoners, many of whom were jailed after Minsk cracked down on massive anti-Lukashenko protests in 2020. “Ahead of National Unity...

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