News for September 2020
19.09.2020 Human Rights Council adopts resolution on situation of human rights in Belarus
UN HRC Calls Upon the Belarusian Authorities to Enter into a Dialogue with the Political Opposition
19.09.2020 Arrested lawyer Maksim Znak declares hunger strike to protest criminal charges
Maksim Znak, lawyer and member of the presidium of the Coordination Council, has been officially charged under Part 3 of Art. 361 (calls for actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus) of the Criminal Code. In an act of protest, the arrested lawyer went on a hunger strike, according to his counsel Dzmitry Layeuski.
18.09.2020 Human Rights Council holds urgent debate on the situation of human rights in Belarus
The Human Rights Council this morning held an urgent debate on the situation of human rights in Belarus.
18.09.2020 Amnesty International: Marfa Rabkova and all prisoners of conscience must be immediately and unconditionally released
The Belarusian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender, Marfa Rabkova, and all those detained as criminal suspects on false charges and solely for exercising their human rights. They must also stop immediately the practice of arbitrary arrest and unlawful deprivation of freedom and holding detainees incommunicado for hours and even days – a practice which they have been widely using against their opponents in recent weeks.
18.09.2020 Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders calls to release Viasna's Marfa Rabkova
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Belarus.
18.09.2020 Viasna’s volunteer coordinator arrested on criminal charges
Maryia Rabkova, coordinator of Viasna’s network of volunteers, was detained last evening in Minsk.
18.09.2020 Hands off Marfa, hands off Viasna!
Statement by the Board of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" in connection with the detention of Marfa Rabkova
18.09.2020 17 OSCE members invoking Moscow Mechanism in relation to serious human rights violations in Belarus
Seventeen members of the OSCE have agreed to assign an independent team of investigators to probe election rigging and human rights abuses in Belarus stemming from August's ballot.
18.09.2020 Amnesty International: UN Human Rights Council must take strong action on escalating human rights crisis in the country
In response to the escalating human rights crisis in Belarus, Amnesty International will address the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on 18 September and demand that it takes strong and decisive action to investigate the ongoing repression of post-election protests in the country and hold perpetrators of mass violations to account.
17.09.2020 12 more persons called political prisoners over "rioting" charges
Joint statement by the human rights organizations of Belarus
17.09.2020 MEPs call for new presidential elections in Belarus
Alexander Lukashenko will not be recognised by the European Parliament as President of Belarus once his current term of office expires on 5 November.
17.09.2020 Justice Is Needed for Belarus
International Scrutiny Is the Way to Get it
17.09.2020 Maryia Kalesnikava faces formal charges
Maryia Kalesnikava, member of the presidium of the Coordination Council and former campaign manager of presidential nominee Viktar Babaryka, has been officially charged under Part 3 of Art. 361 of the Criminal Code (calls for actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus committed with the use of the media and the Internet).
16.09.2020 Human rights activists insist mass torture in Belarus is crime against humanity
On September 16, FIDH Vice President and Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Viasna" Valiantsin Stefanovic took part in an online press conference entitled “Belarus: Torture as a Targeted State Policy” and organized by the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and the Human Rights Center "Viasna". During the conference, several victims of torture were able to tell their stories.
16.09.2020 Torture is back: Traumatic brain injury, cerebral hemorrhage, nasal fracture
The story of a student who was beaten in a bus without license plates and got to hospital with multiple injuries
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