Belarus: Can President Lukashenko be overthrown?
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Over his 26 years in power, Belarus’s president Alexander Lukashenko has taken more and more control.
He has detained protesters and tortured political opponents for years. He is emboldened by his last ally in Europe - Vladimir Putin. And his regime of terror is spilling over into the continent.
But, Tanya Beckett asks if Europe’s last dictator can cling on to power for much longer.
Produced by Soila Apparicio.
(image: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting with Commonwealth of Independent States officials in Minsk May 28 2021. Credit: Dmitry Astakhov/Getty Images)
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