Entries tagged with “Antony J. Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State”
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May 23, 2022
Western Democracies, Human Rights Groups Denounce Belarus’ Use of Death Penalty to Target Political Opponents and Anti-War Activists
The U.S. State Department and the European Union have joined human rights and pro-democracy advocates in condemning the expansion of the death penalty in Belarus to include non-lethal “attempted acts of terrorism,” calling the measure an act of repression against opponents of the nation’s autocratic regime and its assistance to the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Belarus, a former Soviet satellite nation whose President, Alexander Lukashenko, has permitted Russia to use its territory…