Belarus

In recent years, U.S. state legislatures have increasingly taken steps to address transnational repression and foreign interference in the rights and lives of individuals.

The United States must seize its chance to secure the release of political prisoners in Uzbekistan while it has the leverage to do so.

People who help migrants and asylum seekers at Poland's border with Belarus continue to be targeted with prosecutions, interrogations, and home searches by Polish authorities.

What stories or topics merited more attention in 2025, and which might inform law and policy conversations in 2026?

James Goldston and Esti Tambay present their organization's work, a Memorandum supporting efforts to hold officials accountable for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.

Political pressures like those used to silence legal professionals and undermine rule of law in Europe and Eurasia echo patterns of the autocratic playbook.

Nils Muiznieks, Maksim Polovinko, and Margaret Satterthwaite join the show to discuss the repression lawyers face in Belarus.

Belarusian lawyers face severe threats under a near-total State-controlled legal system with hundreds disbarred or exiled simply for doing their jobs.

Such measures not only gut civil society as incubators of citizen involvement and connection with government, they spill beyond borders.

Internal repression -- more than 1,400 political prisoners -- extends outward, too, as dictator Alexander Lukashenka's threatens US and EU security with hybrid ops and nuclear…

The Alliance made significant progress in some areas, but has lots of work to do going forward to meet the challenges on its doorstep.

In Russia and other repressive countries, the situation is often dire for the lawyers trying to defend political prisoners.