Belarus heads into first presidential election since 2020 crackdown on dissent
Belarus heads into first presidential election since 2020 crackdown on dissent
Early voting gets underway in Belarus's presidential election, which promises to see the extension of President Alexander Lukashenko's 30-year rule.
An unprecedented protest movement that rose up against him following the last elections in 2020 was suppressed by force, with many Belarusians were sentenced to long prison terms and hundreds of thousands of others fled the country.