Belarus - January 2023

President Alyaksandr Lukashenka signed a law allowing the government to strip any Belarusian of citizenship for poorly or undefined crimes such as “causing grave harm to the interests of the state” and other offenses. Rights watchdogs say the new law will be used to render critics abroad stateless and crack down on any effort to organize against the dictatorship.

Sources: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Human Rights Watch, President of the Republic of Belarus