News for July 2021
16.07.2021 11 students and university teacher convicted for organizing student protests
The verdict in the "student case" has been passed today. 11 defendants sentenced to two and a half years in prison, one - to two years of imprisonment.
16.07.2021 Members of Parliament from Portugal, Ireland and the UK adopt political prisoners from Belarus
As part of Libereco’s #WeStandBYyou solidarity campaign, Isabel Santos (European Parliament, Partido Socialista, Portugal), Frances Fitzgerald (European Parliament, Fine Gael, Ireland) and Baroness Massey of Darwen (House of Lords, Labour Party, UK) are taking over godparenthoods of political prisoners in Belarus.
16.07.2021 Human Rights House and UN representatives condemn new repressions in Belarus
The United Nations Country Team in Belarus (UNCT) issued a statement informing that it has been following with great concern reports of detentions of civil society representatives and searches in the offices of a wide range of civil society organizations, charity projects and private apartments of individual activists.
16.07.2021 Third day of crackdown on journalists and civil society organisations in Belarus
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" continues to collect facts of political persecution across the country on July 16. For the third day in a row, security forces attacked human rights defenders, journalists, activists, and cultural and social activists.
15.07.2021 Statement by High Representative of European Commission on crackdown against civil society in Belarus
High Representative/Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell made a statement on the situation in Belarus today.
15.07.2021 Civic Solidarity Platform calls for more decisive action by international community against Lukashenka's regime
The Civic Solidarity Platform issued a statement today, in which its members urged the international community to take more decisive actions against the Lukashenka regime.
15.07.2021 Statement: detained "Viasna" members and social activists are political prisoners
Joint statement of Belarusian human rights organizations
15.07.2021 Observatory for Protection of Human Rights Defenders issues urgent appeal on coordinated searches and detentions in Belarus
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has been informed about the ongoing coordinated searches and arbitrary arrests of journalists and human rights defenders and requests your action.
15.07.2021 International human rights organizations condemn newest wave of repressions against civil society in Belarus
Civil Rights Defenders and Front Line Defenders issued statements in support of the civil society under pressure in Belarus.
15.07.2021 Amnesty International: Sweeping crackdown on civil society organizations must be stopped
Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, reacted to an unprecedented wave of searches and detentions targeting more than a dozen civil society organizations in Belarus.
14.07.2021 "We will not stop our human rights activities." Statement by Human Rights Center "Viasna"
On 14 July 2021, the Belarusian authorities again attacked human rights organizations and other NGOs, human rights defenders, and activists. Viasna condemns the new wave of repression against members of our organization and civil society in Belarus and declare that we will not stop our human rights activities.
14.07.2021 Minor Mikita Zalatarou convicted again
Today the Centralny District Court of Homieĺ passed a verdict on the juvenile political prisoner Mikita Zalatarou.
14.07.2021 Viasna and other human rights defenders in Belarus under attack
On July 14 the law enforcement officers came with searches to the human rights activists of "Viasna" and many other human rights organizations.
13.07.2021 Seven new political prisoners in Belarus
Joint statement of representatives of the Belarusian human rights community
13.07.2021 Mandate of Special Rapporteur on Belarus extended for another year
On July 13, at the 47th session of the Human Rights Council, the Resolution on the human rights situation in Belarus was debated and passed.
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