Tor Band from Belarus was one of the active participants of the protests against the dictatorship and unfair elections in 2020. Their most popular song at the time, called “We are not small people” ...

A local court in the southeastern Belarusian city of Homel has rejected appeals filed by three members of the popular rock group Tor Band against prison sentences they were handed in late October 2023 ...

Music will set you free — except in Belarus, where it will send you to prison. In 2020, when a majority voted for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and her promise of democracy, the streets were filled with the ...

Belarusian authorities have labeled a popular rock group, Tor Band, as "extremist" and banned it after detaining members of the group. The Minsk-based Vyasna (Spring) human rights center said on ...

What started as a cure for boredom has now molded itself into the rock-n-roll entity that is the Rev Tor Band. The band, said jovial guitarist and frontman Tor Krautter, "started out as a side project ...