News for March 2023
20.03.2023 Political prisoner Ihar Losik attempted suicide in colony
He is now in the medical unit.
17.03.2023 OHCHR report on Belarus: At least 100,000 people fled abroad after the 2020 presidential election
Some of the human rights violations in Belarus amount to crimes against humanity.
17.03.2023 TUT.BY leadership gets 12 years in jail
Maryna Zolatava and Liudmila Chekina were convicted in a closed trial.
17.03.2023 Political experts receive 10 years in jail
Valeryia Kastsiuhova and Tatsiana Kuzina convicted in Minak Municipal court
17.03.2023 Acvitists still work in climate of fear 25 years after UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
Right Livelihood raised concern during the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
16.03.2023 Rabkova's cellmate: “Marfa needs biopsy to see if it's benign or something worse”
Some hope remains that the activist will get help in the penal colony after the transfer.
15.03.2023 List of political prisoners updated with 20 new names
Joint statement by the Belarusian human rights community.
15.03.2023 Members of the Swiss National Council take on a godparenthood for Mikalai Biblis, Andrei Budai and Iryna Abdukeryna
Libereco solidarity campaign #WeStandBYyou continues.
14.03.2023 Coordination council member and an entrepreneur receive jail terms for 2020 protests
Aksana Zaretskaya and Bahdan Karavets were sentenced to 18 and 24 months of imprisonment despite mitigating circumstances.
14.03.2023 Out of jail! In February, 20 political prisoners were released
Viasna recalls their cases.
10.03.2023 Lawtrend review: Freedom of association and legal environment for Belarusian CSOs in 2022
Lawtrend reviewed the situation with freedom of association in Belarus in 2022.
09.03.2023 "Ales turned to the spectators and smiled very widely and heartily"
One of the spectators described the last court session in the Viasna case and the human rights defenders’ reaction to the verdict. Here is his monologue.
09.03.2023 In February, 72 people criminally convicted in political cases
Custodial and freedom-restricting sentences were handed down in 97% of politically motivated cases.
06.03.2023 Verdict against Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski an effort to quash scrutiny and dissent say UN experts
UN experts reiterate their call for their immediate release from detention, access to a fair trial and reparations for harms suffered.
06.03.2023 Tsikhanouskaya and Latushka sentenced to long prison terms in absentia
The verdict of Judge Piotr Arlou is 15 years of imprisonment for Tsikhanouskaya, 18 years for Latushka, and 12 years for Kavalkova, Maroz, and Dyleuski.
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