News for May 2021
31.05.2021 Cem Özdemir is committed to the release of Raman Pratasevich
Cem Özdemir, the long-time former chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens and current chairman of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the German Bundestag, is taking over the prisoner’s godparenthood for the Belarusian imprisoned blogger and journalist Raman Pratasevich.
28.05.2021 15 new political prisoners in Belarus
Joint statement by Belarusian human rights organizations
27.05.2021 HRDs demand release and retrial for political prisoner Iryna Palianina
Joint statement by Belarusian human rights organizations
27.05.2021 12 more names on list of political prisoners
Joint statement by representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
27.05.2021 New 'godparents' for Belarusian political prisoners
Members of Parliament from Germany and Austria take over godparenthood for Mikita Litvinenka, Mikalai Maliuta and Raman Sidziuk
27.05.2021 Amnesty International launches urgent action to help Raman Pratasevich
Amnesty International is launching an Urgent Action following the televised self-incriminating statement by Raman Pratasevich, co-founder and former editor of the NEXTA Telegram-channel, in which he appears distraught and injured.
26.05.2021 Human rights organizations call to release five more political prisoners
Joint statement by the human rights organizations of Belarus
26.05.2021 Ales Bialiatski on the death of political prisoner Vitold Ashurak
Can we hope that the Investigative Committee will conduct an objective investigation and find out the truth?
26.05.2021 Teenager commits suicide in Minsk after facing rioting charges
Dzmitry Stakhouski, a 17-year-old targeted in a criminal investigation into "mass riots" of August 9-11, 2020 (Part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code), committed suicide in the evening of May 25 by jumping off a 16-storey building in Minsk.
26.05.2021 UN human rights office calls for ‘immediate release’ of Roman Protasevich
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has strongly condemned the arbitrary detention of an opposition journalist in Belarus, calling it an “astonishing episode” that heralds a new phase in the campaign of repression against journalists and civil society there.
25.05.2021 4 to 7 years in prison: opposition activists, blogger convicted in Mahilioŭ
The Mahilioŭ Regional Court announces today its verdict in a criminal trial involving seven political prisoners: co-chair of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy party Pavel Seviarynets, blogger Dzmitry Kazlou, community activist Iryna Shchasnaya, and European Belarus activists Yauhen Afnahel, Pavel Yukhnevich, Maksim Viniarski and Andrei Voinich.
25.05.2021 TUT.BY employees are political prisoners
Joint statement by Belarusian human rights organizations
25.05.2021 Political prisoner Aliaksei Karatkou sentenced to 2 years in prison
The Pieršamajski District Court of Minsk sentenced political prisoner Aliaksei Karatkou to two years in a general-security penal colony, finding him guilty of “organizing or actively participating in group actions that grossly violate public order” (Article 342 of the Criminal Code).
24.05.2021 Amnesty International: Journalist apprehended in Minsk airport after emergency landing must be released immediately
The European Union and the rest of the world must react without delay and call for the immediate release of Raman Pratasevich.
24.05.2021 Immediately release political prisoner Raman Pratasevich!
Joint statement by Belarusian human rights organizations
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