Belarusian authorities have freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition ...

There was no immediate comment from Iran over its detention of Mohammadi, 53. However, supporters had warned for months ...

The wiry, silver-haired Bialiatski, 63, was freed just three days after exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya ...

Florida-based Grey Bull Rescue Foundation leader said his group was behind the operation, saying Machado is “overwhelmingly ...

John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, said that normalizing relations between Washington and Minsk was "our goal." ...

Narges Mohammadi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was beaten and arrested in Iran on Friday while addressing a crowd in the ...

Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was arrested in a "brutal" manner in Iran and ...

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The BBC's Lucy Hockings explains how emotions were running high when María Corina Machado greeted her supporters ahead of ...

The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado supports the use of force to overthrow her country’s government.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appears in Oslo after high-risk escape from Venezuela, says "¡Oslo, aquí ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said she planned to take her award back to Venezuela, but declined to say on ...