The Minsk City Court on April sentenced a former employee of the Poland based Belsat television channel, which was declared extremist and banned in the country in November , to two years in prison.

   A court in Belarus has sentenced a man to years in prison for sending the equivalent of to three Belarusian groups, which were labeled extremist and banned by authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime

   A group known as Cyberpartisans says it hacked into the computers and security systems of a major Belarusian state run producer of nitrogen compounds and fertilizers and is demanding the release of workers who were arrested during protests against the disputed presidential election.

   Dzianis Nosav, a journalist for the Vecherny Babruysk newspaper, was sentenced to days in jail by a court in Belarus for sending links to extremist resources to his friends.

   The Belarusian dissident rock band Nizkiz and its three members have been declared extremists and sentenced to years of restrictions on their freedom of movement after being convicted on criminal charges of violating public order.

   A Belarusian man accused of insulting authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka has died in a pretrial detention center in the city of Brest, just days before his trial was to begin.

   Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski marked his, th day in prison in Belarus on April amid increasing fears about his deteriorating health, his wife said.

   Jailed Belarusian opposition figure Maryya Kalesnikava has reportedly been held illegally in solitary confinement for more than a year and has had no contact with her family or friends, leaving them unsure of her state of health after she underwent surgery following an illness more than a year ago.

   The Christian Vision Telegram channel said on April that preacher, poet, and father of seven Syarhey Melyanets had fled Belarus after serving two administrative arrests of and days on unspecified charges amid an ongoing crackdown on civil society.

   The Vyasna human rights center in Belarus said on April that the Minsk regional court sentenced a year old man to six years in prison for sending money to two opposition groups.

   A Florida based nonprofit, INeedHelpBY, has become the target of a sweeping crackdown by Belarusian law enforcement alleging extremism after the group coordinated an estimated . million in food donations for Belarusian families affected by the country’s repression of government critics.

   Exiled Belarusians gathered on the streets of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, on March to commemorate the th anniversary of Belarus’s declaration of independence.

   Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called on her compatriots to defend their country’s independence in the face of what she called Russian imperialism.